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 →This post is not technical. However, being a SPICMACAYite and an Indian, I felt compelled to let my readers know about the sad news; especially when the news channels are not finding any slot for this legend. Koodiyattam exponent Ammannur Madhava Chakyar, recipient of the Padma Shri as well as the Padma Bhushan honours by [...]
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 →Update: OWASP Bangalore Chapter is meeting on 29th June, i.e. Sunday, morning at 9:00 AM at Indian Coffee House. M.G. Road, Bangalore. Join us, if you can. I feel extremely glad to announce that Security Camp, the first security Barcamp in Bangalore (as far as as I know) is on12th of July. It’s being hosted [...]
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 →Link People who know me, know that I desist Social networking portals. Don’t worry, this post isn’t another rant. It’s more of an announcement that I’ve joined a Social Network Yup! The guys at GNUCitizen have started a social network for hackers, and very intelligently named it House of Hackers. I’d like to call it [...]
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 →A new array syntax has been proposed (for quite some time) for defining arrays in PHP. Currently, we use array() construct to create an array. Some examples could be: $myArray = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); $yourArray = array(1 => “one”, 2 => “two”, “three”); $herArray = array(1, 2, 3, array(4 => “four”, “five”)); The [...]
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 →It brings me immense pleasure to inform you that w3af (web application attack and audit framework) has been named the Best Application Scanner in BEST IT Security and Auditing Softwares 2007 list prepared by Security Database. I had mentioned in a few previous articles that I see immense potential in w3af. I must, however, also [...]
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: Aah. It’s not that there couldn’t have been any better news , but today’s News is that Ma1 has agreed to provide feature to block frames through NoScript from the next version (1.1.7). NoScripts Rocks. Oh and Yes! Ma1 Rocks too …;) I have been pretty busy since the last few weeks (and this [...]
Read more →I am not sure if anyone is aware of it or not, so kindly spare me if it’s not NEW in the sense I wish to convey. (Or may b, you didn’t discover it the way I did) For no particular reason, I visited the windows update page today (using IE7) and got this message: [...]
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