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Hacking

Ethical Hacker Network Challenge : Miracle on Thirty – Hack Street

August 8, 2010

The results for the Ethical Hacker Network Challenge – Miracle on Thirty Hack Street are finally in and I won a Technical Honorable Mention! The challenge was pretty good and was focussed on Facebook security or insecurity rather. Before I list my answers to the challenge, make sure to check out my blog post on [...]

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The History of Hacking

January 31, 2008

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

January 31, 2008

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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Network Security Risk Assessment

January 19, 2008

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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