Discovery Channel played a very interesting documentary titled “The History of Hacking”. This goes into the whole history of hacking starting with phone phreaking and Blue boxes and to the present state of hacking. However, a significant portion of this documentary tackles Social Engineering especially the most famous or rather infamous social engineer of all, […]
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Yahoo! CAPTCHA Cracked
A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct […]
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Sometimes when running through a CSV or any kind of a log file, you may encounter lists with a lot of duplicates. I will show an example of the simplest order here. Say, you have a duplicates.txt that goes one two three one four two four Now, how to remove duplicates from a list such […]
Continue ReadingUnix Shell for Windows
A lot of us who use Linux at work/school or have always grown up using Unix commands and using the Unix shell for years and more often than not, there are instances where a ls command comes more naturally than the dir command at the command prompt when using Windows. For the most part, a […]
Continue ReadingNetwork Security Risk Assessment
In this article, I will introduce you to some well known tools which security analysts use for Network Security Risk assessment, to know more about the layout of the network they are trying to test and also gather intelligence about that company, which the security analyst can use later on to conduct further tests and […]
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