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,...
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 Orkut (Google’s MySpace and Facebook for Indian,...
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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →I hope you remember the young Indian security researchers Vipin Kumar (22) and Nitin Kumar (23), the TPM Boys They presented a Paper “Vboot Kit: Compromising Windows Vista Security” at Blackhat Europe – 2007. The talk explained the (different) booting...
Read more →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 $67.8 billion. Reasons:...
Read more →The Month of Search Engine Bugs by MustLive has come to an end. MutLive reports: In the project took part 33 search engines (30 web engines and 3 local engines) of 19 vendors, some vendors have several engines. The list of project’s participants (in order of appearance): Meta, Yahoo, HotBot, Gigablast, MSN, Clusty, Yandex,...
Read more →I realized that the title of this post has a contrast with my previous post, only after I wrote the topic. Thus, I feel that it is obligatory to mention that I am still Anti-M$. I still do not support there business model. Phew!…and yes. The contrast in the names is just a mere...
Read more →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...
Read more →I have been reading a lot of discussion on Sun’s current market position/revenue versus their *mad* strategy. I have simultaneously been working on Java’s history for my book. I thought it might be interesting to post my views on the topic and see what others are thinking. To justify/criticize Sun’s current modus operandi, I...
Read more →The title may lure you to assume that I am going to talk about some security bug. Well, I am not… or I’d rather say I haven’t yet thought of any ways to exploit it. If you come up with something, do let us know. Now back to the topic. Almost all the huge...
Read more →Strange things happen to me all the time.When I came to the office a few hours ago, I came across JavaFX scripting language while reading random blogs. I found it pretty interesting and decided to check it out.So I added the module in my NetBeans IDE and started playing with it. Though I could...
Read more →I don’t intend to post any review of the vista. There are some neatly written essays on the topics by experts, like this one. I was going through the article and stumbled on this page, which has the picture given below. What happened was due merely due to fast glance and my mouse cursor...
Read more →It’s really interesting that even enginieering students, who are supposed to have a very ANALYTIC are least bothered in verifying anything before believing it…… and that too when they have access to GOOGLE. This blog of mine is in response to the hundreds and thousands of mails that are forwarded so that somewhere, somebody’s...
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