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Milw0Rm Closes from Srt0ke

Blake — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:43:53 +0000

Well, this is my goodbye header for milw0rm. I wish I had the time I did in the past to post exploits, I just don't :(. For the past 3 months I have actually done a pretty crappy job of getting peoples work out fast enough to be proud of, 0 to 72 hours (taking off weekends) isn't fair to the authors on this site. I appreciate and thank everyone for their support in the past.
Be safe, /str0ke

Ipod And Iphone Camera's Do You Allow Them?

Blake — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:04:21 +0000

I know that alot of companies are always concerned with propritary data getting outside of the company. Some go through great lengths to prevent the data from leaving the company. But now that so many phones have cameras and also now with applications like Evernote, you can take a picture of a document and and have it converted to text.

Ex - Goldman Sachs Programmer Arrested

Blake — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:45:35 +0000

Looks like the conomy has hit everyone a bit hard. A former programmer for Goldman Sachs who was employed to work on high volume trading software is being charged with theft of trade secrets. Now he states that all he did was transfer open source code that he was working on

PHP Security: Fortifying Your Website- Power Tips, Tools & How to

Blake — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:01:28 +0000

PHP Security involves minimizing programming errors as much as possible, and putting proper code in place to protect against possible vulnerabilities – Often times this means putting 2-3 “layers” of protection in place to guard sensitive data against hackers that could otherwise cause a catastrophic result if compromised. Developers call this principle of redundant safeguarding Defense in Depth, and this concept has been proven over the years to be an extremely effective defense against malicious attacks.

Nervous About The Usenet Riaa Piracy Crackdown

Blake — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:21:09 +0000

Anyone else a bit nervous?

Federal Court Hands Record Companies Decisive Verdict In Usenet.com Lawsuit
WASHINGTON - A federal district court late Tuesday afternoon issued a decisive ruling in favor of the record companies in the lawsuit against Usenet.com. A copy of that ruling is available upon request. Below is a comment on the favorable ruling from Steven M. Marks, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America:

Interesting Computer Security And Hacking Videos

Blake — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:22:35 +0000

I will be posting interesting video on SecurityTube in this thread. It is important to note that these are videos which people have submitted / referred to SecurityTube and have not been made by me.

Tools and tricks of the white hat hackers

Blake — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:58:22 +0000

The term hacker may be used to describe people who steal information from computers, but that's just the dark side of the story.

Like the cowboy heroes of childhood, there are white hats as well as black, and the former are legal hackers: security professionals who aim to make the wilds of the internet a safer place for us all, tracking down and rounding up the exploits that endanger our computers.

Hotmail hack blamed for exposing Sanford Affair

Blake — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:36:30 +0000

Emails from the Argentine mistress of married South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford were leaked to the press by a hacker, according to the Latin American siren at the centre of a political scandal in the US Deep South.

The emails were obtained by South Carolina newspaper The State back in December but kept on ice while the paper investigated their authenticity. Last week Sanford's political aides confirmed that the emails were authentic, allowing the paper to publish the intimate exchange of correspondence between Sanford and the mother of two, initially identified only as Maria.

Google Voice Security And Privacy

Blake — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:12:19 +0000

So it looks like Google Voice has finally begun to send out invites, and I admit that I have been waiting for mine for a while and can't wait to use it. For those that don't know what Google Voice is:

You get a single Google provided phone number that you can use. It will then handle all of your voice mail and other text messages. You can also change how your phones ring. Which is all really useful for people that have a huge amount of phones.

Will you guys use it? Do you have concerns about the security and the privacy of Google Voice?

How to Calculate 4byte DLL Hash?

Blake — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:19:06 +0000

So how exactly do you calculate a 4 byte hash?

// CalcDLLHash.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include
#include
#include
#include
char * CalcHash(unsigned char * MyString)
{
unsigned int h;
unsigned char *c=MyString;
while(*c)
{
h=((h<<5)|(h>>27))+*c++;
}
printf("Done");
return 0;