Yesterday I have read a funny article on techtarget.
Funny from my perspective, because the author seemed to be real serious about the subject. In a few words the author suggest webmasters to use the html encrypter (it is actually an encoder) as an “effective deterrent”.
Like people would really sacrifice the possibly index-able content and accessibility for a false sense of security… come on, it must be a joke.
As some of you may have noticed, news about ImageShack being hacked has started to circulate today. While I tried to see this for myself, part of the damage has been fixed; I say part because the ImageShack blog still throws database connection errors…
Even if this may have been worse for users who store their images there (myself included), there is more to it than meets the eye.
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Hopefully as you may have noticed, on a daily basis more and more of our (users) privacy is stripped shamelessly away by almost every website out there.
And so you don’t think I am speaking in a hypocritical manner, I admit I strip as well a part from your privacy, with the simple Google tracker I have inside my web pages… but for those that do care about their anonymity this is not an issue.
That’s what many NoScript users have claimed of doing after the recent debate about NoScript circumventing ADBlockPlus for displaying the ads from its own page. One question I kept asking myself: Are these really noscript users?
I can’t understand all the fighting about blackhats, whitehats, grayhats or any other color for that matter.
Hackers have no color.
Hackers have no creed.
Hackers have no ethics.
Hackers have free will.
Hackers make things work.
Hackers can handle any situation, with almost any tool (MacGuyver type of person), in almost every field…
Hackers do it for FUN and profit. Not vice-versa…
I think that everyone has heard of the recent “hacking series” against major antivirus companies. After the recent SQL injections in Kaspersky, BitDefender (here and here) and F-Secure the regular user might wonder in which company should they still trust.
Yesterday while browsing some security tagged discussions on stackoverflow.com I’ve noticed someone mentioned some filter_ prefixed PHP functions. At first I thought they were some custom written ones, but on a quick check it turned out that there really where this functions. I was shocked. Anyway, let’s digg into it…
Mozilla Firefox thanks to it addons can truly be a web application pen-testers platform. And this concept is not new, is it?
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Recently I read an article in the (IN)SECURE Magazine 19 entitled The Future Of AV: looking for the good while stopping the bad
. After my opinion there should be more to be said about it, based on the article.
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