Category Archives: reviewIt 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
No Yahoo! hasn’t changed it’s name to Insane!. It’s just their behavior that has gone insane.
If you’ve been a member of some online group for quite some time, chances are that the group is on Yahoo! Groups. Same with me. This story is concerned with my college batch online egroup. Yahoo! groups has a very [...]
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 Overflows. [...]
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 [...]
Slashdot updated today that Billy Boy is no more the Richest man in the world. The position is, however, not official. The standard is Forbes list.
Billy Boy has been surpassed by Carlos Slim, the Mexican Telecom tycoon. Bill’s current estimated wealth is $ 59.2 billion, while slims estimated wealth is $67.8 billion.
Reasons:
Two of the [...]
The Month of Search Engine Bugs by MustLive has come to an end.
MutLive reports:
In the project took part 33 search engines (30 web engines and 3 local engines) of 19 vendors, some vendors have several engines. The list of project’s participants (in order of appearance): Meta, Yahoo, HotBot, Gigablast, MSN, Clusty, Yandex, Yandex.Server (local engine), [...]
I realized that the title of this post has a contrast with my previous post, only after I wrote the topic. Thus, I feel that it is obligatory to mention that I am still Anti-M$. I still do not support there business model. Phew!…and yes. The contrast in the names is just a mere coincidence. [...]
It’s strange writing something like this using a service that’s owned by Google. But it was long overdue.
There was a time when I used address Google as “Google God” :).Used to believe a lot that they religiously follow their “Do no Evil” motto. I forgot that as companies grow, there are bound to be [...]
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