I was pointed to the Cyber Security Challenge earlier this week, and eventually stumbled upon the cipher they offer as an “immediate opportunity to test your skills”. Despite not really understanding the point of the exercise or how it related to the other competitions mentioned, I was pleased to see that the “ciphertext” was right [...]
Or “Things you don’t want to see when tracking the delivery of your shiny new toy” Location Date Local Time Description KOELN (COLOGNE), DE 04/18/2010 3:20 P.M. PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE / RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY. NOW IN-TRANSIT FOR DELIVERY SHANGHAI, CN 04/18/2010 5:55 A.M. NATURAL DISASTER 04/18/2010 5:21 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), [...]
I watched Google’s webcast yesterday where they announced a few details of their new Chrome OS. As it’s open source, I downloaded it and built it on an Ubuntu system – which seems to be their preferred platform. The build went reasonably smoothly, but there’s not very much to see yet really. As you’d probably [...]
Sigh. I wrote another article on Dave Naylor’s blog about the XSS exploit I found yesterday. It seems they’ve made a pretty amateurish attempt to fix the issue, completely missing the massive problem staring them in the face. It seems to be picking up a bit more traction today – I’ve even been quoted by [...]
I had the opportunity (probably) to take down Twitter today. Or at least stir up a whole lot of trouble. I really can’t believe I’m the first person to think of it, but I’m pretty sure it would have worked! Because I’m a nice guy – and not at all grudgingly, honest – we’re holding [...]