Tag: exploit
Here’s why we keep getting hacked
Troy Hunt: Here’s why we keep getting hacked – clear and present Billabong failures. This is a really interesting (and in depth) look at various attack vectors potentially used in any number of the recent password leak outbreaks we’ve been reading about for the past few months. XSS is fascinating to me, I’m quite inspired by those […]
Posted: July 17, 2012
A Tale of Two Pwnies Part 1
Chromium Blog: A Tale of Two Pwnies Part 1. This is beyond impressive to me. Articles like these remind me just how much smarter the rest of the world is than me. A short time ago, Google hosted a browser hacking competition for Chrome. Within 24 hours, two people were successful in exploiting the browser, […]
Posted: May 23, 2012
Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation
Public Key Security Vulnerability and Mitigation. GitHub had quite an interesting experience over the weekend, and it’s worth examining for a number of reasons. First and foremost a security issue was exposed that affected an extremely large number of systems and users. I’m not a Rails developer but from what I understand, the security issue […]
Posted: March 05, 2012