From the monthly archives:

September 2008

How to Break Web Software

September 7, 2008

Mike Andrews was one of the coolest and most knowledgeable professors I had the opportunity of learning from, while at school @ Florida Tech.
Currently, Mike is currently working as the Principle consultant at Foundstone/McAfee, taking a break from teaching.
At school, we did not have video tape lectures, but I did find this video of Mike [...]

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The Great Zero Challenge

September 7, 2008

The Great Zero Challenge: A challenge to confirm whether or not a professional data recovery firm or any individual(s) or organization(s) can recover data from a hard drive that has been overwritten with zeros once. All they used is the Unix dd command using /dev/zero as input to overwrite the drive.
They are doing this because [...]

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How to crash Google Chrome

September 4, 2008

Google claims that its browser Google Chrome is able to isolate events that may crash a browser, isolated within those individual tabs. However, an issue exists with how Google Chrome handles undefined handlers in chrome.dll version 0.2.149.27 which is the latest version of the browser. A crash can result without any user interaction.
When a user [...]

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