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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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    OWASP AppSec Conf Delhi – Day 2; and more

    by  • September 4, 2008 • education, hackers, life, news, security, webappsec • 4 Comments

    The pictures of Day 2 are here. The second day consisted of 6 workshops – 3 before lunch and 3 after. I was confused on choosing between Sheeraj Shah and Mano Paul’s workshops during the first half; and Jason Li’s talk on “Web 2.0  Security” and “Secure Code Review” workshop (originally by Dinis Cruz, but [...]

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    No more lectures now…

    by  • July 26, 2008 • hackers, humour, irony, life, news • 0 Comments

    Randy Pausch, fondly known as the Last Lecture Guy, is no more. If you have not heard of him, I suggest you watch his “last lecture”. A summary of the lecture and Randy Pausch’s life can be read here. p.s.: @Johnny: Thanks for updating me. @Slashdot-ters: Thanks for not making stupid and mean remarks this [...]

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    iHacker

    by  • April 30, 2008 • apple, hackers, humour, life, Uncategorized • 2 Comments

    I have a special likeness for T-Shirt with quotes. More Geeky the quote, more geekier… I mean better. I got this T-Shirt made for myself a couple of days ago. I case you didn’t get, it’s a mockery of the crippled iPhone. Oh by the way, this is my first post on the new blog, [...]

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    A Phish floating in Google Survey!

    by  • January 29, 2008 • demo, education, google, hackers, life, news, phishing, script, security, webappsec • 4 Comments

    Demo 1. Phizy-Phizy-Phizy I have always loved making this phizy-phizy-phizy sound purposelessly, which I once heard in a Rob Schneider movie (which, if I remember correctly, was a pathetic movie). Anyhoo! I, now, have a set of very strong reasons to move around repeating the same lines. First, we received a request to be involved [...]

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    The Web is Broken

    by  • October 12, 2007 • csrf, defacement, google, hack, hackers, humour, life, review, script, security, webappsec, xss • 0 Comments

    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 Web). [...]

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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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    Zone-H Deafced by Saudi Hackers.

    by  • January 23, 2007 • defacement, hack, hackers, humour, irony, security • 0 Comments

    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 [...]

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