Using SHODAN to find insecure Servers, Routers and gain ROOT access

by Ajit Gaddam on November 24, 2009

SHODAN lets you find servers/ routers/ etc. by using the simple search bar up above. Most of the data in the index covers web servers at the moment, but there is some data on FTP, Telnet and SSH services as well.
Lets say you want to find servers running the ‘Apache’ web daemon. A simple attempt [...]

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Secret Knock Detecting Lock

by Ajit Gaddam on November 5, 2009

Oh man .. epic geekiness… I love it

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Encrypt HTML form data without using SSL

by Ajit Gaddam on October 24, 2009

In certain cases, it might be hard to install SSL certificates or SSL is not supported by some webhosts. In those cases, there is a need to encrypt the data (POST/GET) that is sent when you submit a form because if you don’t, your data will be sent in plain text. So I ran into jCryption, [...]

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How to Encrypt Files using TrueCrypt

October 22, 2009

TrueCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software that works on both Windows and Linux platforms. Data stored on an encrypted volume cannot be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. TrueCrypt does this by creating a virtual hard drive that will read and write encrypted files on the fly. [...]

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Mozilla Firefox disables Microsoft .NET and WPF addons

October 18, 2009

This morning, I was prompted by Firefox that it had disabled the .NET Framework Assistant and the Windows Presentation Foundation addons. The popup concluded with the message that these addons have been known to cause stability or security issues with Firefox.

This is very interesting with vendors taking a proactive approach with kill switch functionality with [...]

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