Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken.Three people face charges in federal court in New York for allegedly breaking into Citibank's ATM network inside 7-Eleven stores and stealing PIN codes, according to court filings ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Now this is an oldskool topic, wardialling! Some people still ask me about wardialling tools though, so here’s one I found recently written in Python.PAW / PAWS is a wardialing software in python. It is designed to scan for ISDN (PAWS only) and “modern” analog modems (running at 9.6kbit/s or ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 The interception of Internet traffic to snoop on phone calls or track surfers' behavior is a hot topic -- but what's keeping members of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee up at night is the interception of traffic to and from sites that don't even exist. They explained why in ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008 As I mentioned in my post on Cross Document Messaging, client side cross domain request is an important area of interest for AJAX developers looking for ways to avoid expensive server side proxying calls. While Cross Document Messaging is useful for allowing third party components or gadgets embedded in a ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Everyone knows that there's no such thing as 100% security, but it's unlikely that most businesses realize how insecure they really are. New research on endpoint security shows just how vulnerable corporate networks are.Eighty-one percent of corporate endpoints probed by IT security and control product vendor Sophos failed basic security ...
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