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    [OT] The Rant of a “Republic” Indian Hacker

    by  • January 26, 2009 • bug, hack, hackers, india, irony, life, off-topic, politics, rant • 0 Comments

    For me, the very foundations of Hacker-dom is based on three very fundamental steps: 1. Grasp the fundamentals 2. Question everything 3. Question everything, without being a fanatic As ironical (or rather illuminating, depending on the way you see) it may sound; as I start my very first step to understand the fundamentals of Indian [...]

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    AdSense exploited by malware (Trojan.Qhost.WU)

    by  • December 22, 2007 • bug, education, google, irony, life, loophole, news, security, webappsec • 5 Comments

    1. Life & Code (The title of this section is taken from Johnny’s blog of the same name, Life and Code. Although my implementation of the phrase isn’t in terms with Johnny’s, yet I could resist using it. ) Life: Three days ago I found that there are some strange entries in my local Apache [...]

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    Apache Headache: “no listening sockets available”

    by  • August 8, 2007 • apache, bug, education, guide, humour, life, microsoft, mysql, php • 5 Comments

    Update 1: I was unable to configure MySQL. Reason: It was installed in C:\(blah-blah) and , probably, do not have write rights in the directory. Installing it to D:\(bigBlah) solved the issue. Duh! Update 2: I see a fairly good traffic coming here searching for the same problem. So, in case you are in a hurry, [...]

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    Java vulnerable to remote compromise

    by  • July 14, 2007 • bug, google, hack, hackers, Java, loophole, review, security, Sun • 0 Comments

    ZDNet Asia reports that Google Security team has discovered as “Dangerous Java Flaw that threaten’s Virtually Everything“. The interesting part of this news is that, apart from a few scary statements, it doesn’t inform you anything else. The Sun advisory page on this flaw, however, informs you about two flaws which are nothing but Buffer [...]

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    TPM Boys withdraw paper from BlackHat USA

    by  • July 5, 2007 • bug, code, hack, hackers, irony, loophole, microsoft, news, review, security • 0 Comments

    I hope you remember the young Indian security researchers Vipin Kumar (22) and Nitin Kumar (23), the TPM Boys [I guess, that's the way they call themselves. At least their blog confirms that. ]They presented a Paper “Vboot Kit: Compromising Windows Vista Security” at Blackhat Europe – 2007. The talk explained the (different) booting process [...]

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    Month of Search Engine Bugs: “Mission Accomplished”

    by  • July 3, 2007 • bug, google, hack, hackers, irony, loophole, microsoft, phishing, review, security, webappsec • 0 Comments

    The Month of Search Engine Bugs by MustLive has come to an end. MutLive reports: In the project took part 33 search engines (30 web engines and 3 local engines) of 19 vendors, some vendors have several engines. The list of project’s participants (in order of appearance): Meta, Yahoo, HotBot, Gigablast, MSN, Clusty, Yandex, Yandex.Server [...]

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