Posts filed under "Security"

# Hacking and the real world

Posted: Mar 13, 2008, under IT today, Security. Add a comment!

I was reading an article by Adrian Spinei and, not for the first time, it made me think about how our society likes to consider computer hacking similar to physical aggression, invasion of personal space or privacy violations. It wouldn’t be so bad if just the uninformed masses had the wrong idea. But it doesn’t seem [...]

# Code injection on the Web

Posted: Jun 30, 2006, under Security. Add a comment!

This article presents an overview of code injection on the Web, in general, and describes some types of code injection, in particular. The point of view is that of a PHP programmer, for obvious reasons: PHP is a loose-typed language and has features that can be easily misused by novices.

# Social engineering comes to the Mac

Posted: Feb 17, 2006, under Security. Add a comment!

So apparently there's been some ruckus these days regarding what has been dubbed "the first trojan for Mac OS X". I fully expect that by now there are at least some articles and a few thousand comments all over the Web saying: "See? It wasn't so secure after all!" Except that this isn't a security problem in the classical sense; it's a social engineering attack.

# The Code Book, by Simon Singh

Posted: Jan 2, 2006, under Books, Security. Add a comment!

"The secret history of codes and code-breaking" is an excellent overview and introduction to cryptography. A must read even if you don't plan on becoming a specialist.

# Trojan exploits severe Explorer security flaw

Posted: Dec 1, 2005, under Software, Security. Add a comment!

As probably expected, there's now a trojan in the wild which exploits a 6-month old, yet unpatched, vulnerability in Internet Explorer, allowing remote code execution.

# Explorer bug crawls up on Firefox

Posted: Nov 29, 2005, under Software, Security. Add a comment!

A very specific JavaScript security vulnerability, which was supposed to achieve remote code execution on Explorer, manages to freeze Firefox as well. Kudos to inter-racial bugs.

# Google Base brings you teh pr0n. Not!

Posted: Nov 25, 2005, under Security, Random stuff. Add a comment!

Due to, apparently, the same XSS issue that troubled Gmail a few days ago, Google Base has been invaded by smut, pr0n, xxx, dirty stuff, in a word, sex. And what do they do?