Apparently the last time I wrote something here was on Jan’26th Mar’ 23rd, 2009 -almost 3 years ago. Obviously a lot’s happened and much has changed in life -or may be nothing’s changed. I recall lines from a Gulzar saab’s poem: Pal bhar mein sab kuchh badal gaya, Aur kuchh bhi nahi badla. Jo badla [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →Special Note: I don’t have my Canon EOS 350D with me nowadays, so I had to borrow my roomates Canon Powershot. The quality sucks, but still, the pictures are here. I’ll be honest, going by the conf prices and some of the talk titles; I was expecting OWASP AppSec Delhi to be targeted mainly for [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →I spent the first half of the day at SecurCamp -1 (or Security Barcamp). It always great to get together with the community and today was no different. It came a sweet surprise to me that I have quite a few acquaintances in the community. The best part of the whole day, however, was getting [...]
Read more →The OWASP Bangalore Chapter met after almost an year today, and I was priviledged to be a part of it. As happens often with technical groups, including LUGs (Linux User Groups), they tend to loose participation and go to indefinite hibernation mode. OWASP-Bangalore’s fate was no different. Anyhoo! The important point is that we finally [...]
Read more →Bittu, my wife, got revamped. For unemotional people, it simply means I bought a new laptop She is red, and she’s hot! She’s a Dell XPS M1330. Other features include: 1. Intel Core-2 Duo, 2.1 GHz (My first intel. I used to be with AMD) 2. 200GB HD , 7200rpm 3. 128 MB Nvidia graphics [...]
Read more →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, [...]
Read more →Those were the days when I used to be a Apple fan. aah.. the harsh reality that they produce nothing more than crippled products at sky-high prices. Moreover, Apple isn’t just about cut-throat business. It’s also about making people feel bad about themselves. Don’t trust me? See here yourself.
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →Yahoo! launched it browser based media player written in javascript. All you have to do is link the javascript code (located at http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js) in a web page having links to audio file(s) . Although it takes a while for the “player” to load completely, yet I am pretty okay with it (for now). Moreover, it’s [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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). [...]
Read more →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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