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(Re)Evaluating Qubes OS as a pentesting platform

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Intro Laptop hardening is difficult at the best of times, and it’s made worse by the conflicting requirements we have...

Not-quite-triangulation using the who’s near me feature in location-aware web apps

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When assessing web applications, we typically look for vulnerabilities such as SQLi and XSS, which are generally a result of...

The proof of the pudding ?

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Royal pingdom did a quick check on what was running at some of the more popular sites on the Internet...

2 Un-related thoughts.. on Echelon and the recent Skype Outage..

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I suspect somewhere there exist cardinal rules of blogging which would state that using a single post to make 2...

Another blow for privacy? A small price for your 15 minutes of fame..

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Spock have just opened up beyond their private beta and promise to be the most comprehensive people search tool on...

Google Cookies.. Finally a saner expiry date…

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Google have finally revised their cookie expiration policy, which will have user cookies expiring after 2 years. (For those of...

Adam Shostack on Biometrics..

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hmmm… i have heard this somewhere before…. ” However, in cases where your finger is used to identify or authenticate...

Have a (one) care sir….

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Someone in the office was discussing Microsoft’s recent horrible foray into the anti-virus market. Apparently an online source held one-care...