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About samurai

I like computers... A lot. So I tend to spend a lot of time doing varied things with them. Often you'll find me playing with Python or PHP, fighting with operating systems, ranting about some off-the-wall concept, or preparing for zombies.

Windows Vista is less secure than Windows 2000?

Posted on May 13, 2008 by samurai

In a recent study by PCTools, Windows Vista was found to be far more vulnerable to malware than Windows 2000. These tests were run on both server and client editions of the operating system and the following statistics were provided: … Continue reading →

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A change…

Posted on May 12, 2008 by samurai

You may notice that I changed from full blog posts on the front page to excerpts posted on the front page. For posts that didn’t have an excerpt before (most of them) they are simply being truncated. I will be … Continue reading →

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Web Application Penetration Testing… my tools of the trade

Posted on May 12, 2008 by samurai

I read a question recently on LinkedIn asking what tools penetration testers used for web application testing and felt that it was probably a question that merited more than the few sentences I put down as an answer. The following … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 5

Posted on May 11, 2008 by samurai

It seems that even Mozilla cannot escape built in viruses these days. A language pack for FireFox was found to be corrupted with a trojan and was downloaded by users. http://www.scmagazineus.com/Compromised-file-found-in-language-pack-for-Firefox/article/109941/ After reading a few RFCs this week I have … Continue reading →

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America’s Cyber Defense… or lack there of

Posted on May 10, 2008 by samurai

Over the past few years more and more news has arrisen about hacking becoming a part of warfare, however; it seems that though it has a tactical advantage and is a powerful resource for any government that uses it, it … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 4

Posted on May 5, 2008 by samurai

A friend of mine showed me the following site after a discussion over what language was best for a problem. They have “benchmark problems” to test efficiency, memory size, etc. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/ For those of you following the Hans Reiser case, … Continue reading →

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