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Sony’s PSN Hacked, Users’ Information Compromised
Greetings friends! So, this isn’t going to be much of a blog post, but I know a number of people who use Sony’s PlayStation Network – and I want to use my blog to get the word out about the recent hack into their network. I’m not going to go too much into detail, but [...]
Securing Passwords with Javascript and MD5
Recently, I posted about Session Hi-Jacking, which is a tactic for taking over someone’s session on a website without their knowledge. Session Hijacking is one of the unfortunate consequences of not using HTTPS to protect your internet connection full-time. (If you want to know what that is, I wrote about it here too!) The unfortunate truth is [...]
What is Session Hi-jacking, and why public wi-fi isn’t safe
I work for a web development company in Athens, and, as with anything that deals with the Internet, one of our chief concerns remains security. This includes making regular efforts to ensure that we’re using the latest server software, and that we utilize good programming practices to avoid malicious users being able to circumvent our [...]
University of Florida Security Fail
I love it when, while rummaging around old websites, I find links to events that are relevant to the current day on accident. Today, I bring to your attention a security incident that happened at the University of Florida. Quite frankly, I’d love to break down the incident of what happened, but I really think [...]
Here Endith the Jailbreak Honeymoon
Well it looks like the jailbreak honeymoon is over. Stories about how iPhone jailbreaking code could potentially be used to create iPhone rootkits have started surfacing. I can’t say I’m entirely surprised. Since the federal government ruled that jailbreaking was an exception to the DMCA copyright law, it has been getting coverage on major media [...]
A Practical Security Reference
This article has been several days in the making, and I hope the content reflects that. If you haven’t already figured it out, today I’m going to take a break from talking about what’s happening now in the computing industry. Instead, I’m going to give you a pretty basic, yet still practical, overview of ways [...]
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