Author Archives: samurai

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.

Reading Rainbow: Episode 11

Posted on July 18, 2008 by samurai

Windows has it’s place in today’s world. Here are some examples of places it is and really shouldn’t be. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29644 Many companies provide their employees with company cell phones. When text messaging is enabled a unique privacy issue develops regarding … Continue reading →

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Using RefControl

Posted on July 9, 2008 by samurai

Continuing on with my web application penetration testing series I will now go into the usage of RefControl. RefControl is useful in checking referrer-based exploits, such as CSRF. RefControl RefControl allows you to specify the referrer for a site when … Continue reading →

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Oops….

Posted on July 7, 2008 by samurai

It has been brought to my attention that the P3P settings in Firefox 2 have actually been disabled. I missed this in my research as I was going more to understand how it worked and simply assumed that it did … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 10

Posted on July 7, 2008 by samurai

“90% of emails sent are spam” is a statistic found on the following article. With such a large percentage of emails being considered spam protection techniques need to move to proactive, rather than reactive. One method being suggested is tracking … Continue reading →

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Stupid Spammers

Posted on July 3, 2008 by samurai

Spam is annoying. Spam trying to avoid spam filters with it’s 1337 5p34k is more annoying. Idiotic spammers are the worst. I have been receiving spam from myself for quite some time, but only today did I actually think before … Continue reading →

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and… we’re back!

Posted on July 3, 2008 by samurai

After nearly a month of no updates, I have returned to post again. Just because I haven’t been posting doesn’t mean that articles aren’t in the works. There are quite a few posts sitting in various stages of partial completion … Continue reading →

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