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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Internet Browsers and their users

August 11, 2008

Comparison of the different Internet Browsers and their users.

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What is Defense in Depth

July 13, 2008

Defense-in-depth is fundamental to the design of a secure system. It stems from the idea that software can have flaws; people can make configuration mistakes; and hardware devices can fail. To compensate for events like these, we do not want to rely on a single mechanism to defend our resources. Instead, we deploy multiple layers [...]

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Computer Security Tips and Best Practices

June 7, 2008

Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses, and exploit them to gain access to your most sensitive secrets.
They can even use your computer to store data like stolen credit-card [...]

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