Opera Arioso!

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I'm pretty excited by Opera's Userscripts that allow you to write Javascript files that are far richer than greasemonkey Userscripts -which is also supported by Opera- I've written a security plugin for Opera last night, that attempts to mitigate various Javascript attack vectors. But, one problem for writing a security ...

Crawling AJAX

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Traditionally, a web spider system is tasked with connecting to a server, pulling down the HTML document, scanning the document for anchor links to other HTTP URLs and repeating the same process on all of the discovered URLs. Each URL represents a different state of the traditional web site. In ...

Microsoft Unveils New Internet Explorer Security Features

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Internet Explorer's getting a little bit safer. Microsoft Wednesday unveiled significant new security features that will be in the next version of the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, currently in public beta testing. From Microsoft's standpoint, any improvement in security is a plus, and the company seems to be taking ...

Kaspersky adds anti-keylogger keyboard

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

The new version of Kaspersky's security suite, Internet Security 2009, features a novel but simple defense against keylogging malware -- a virtual keyboard. Full details have yet to be confirmed, but it is understood that the program will let users bring up the keyboard from which to enter login details for ...

PAWS – Python Advanced Wardialing System

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 ...