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Orkut Latest XSS Worm; and what it means for Indian Orkuteers

December 20, 2007 – 3:14 pm

Update: Kishor reports a flaw in the implementation of “private” videos feature on Orkut. Although I am at office and I haven’t checked it yet myself, I believe I can trust him, based on his posts at Slackers. Nice one Kishor.

1. YAWN [Yet Another Worm, Nanny]

Orkut (Google’s MySpace and Facebook for Indian, Pakistan [...]

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The Web is Broken

October 12, 2007 – 5:54 pm

Update: I somehow managed to make a blunder. A part of slide no. 12 was taken from David Kierznowski’s (of GNUCitizen and Blogsecurity group) presentation for OWASP Belgium Conf. I missed out on mentioning David’s name is the credits. Apologies David. I’ve updated and re-uploaded it.
Yesterday, I presented my first Webinar (Seminar on [...]

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Zone-H Deafced by Saudi Hackers.

January 23, 2007 – 12:33 pm

In an ironical/laughable/insightful event, http://zone-h.org was defaced today by Saudi Hackers. Irony because Zone-H maitains (probably the largest) archive of defaced site.
Below is the screenshot of the (defaced) homepage of zone-h.

The words “your security got bypassed .. see more security next time” are clear enough to announce that security is not an feature or an [...]

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