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Cookies, Cookies, and Cookies

Posted on June 8, 2008 by samurai

[April, 2010]Update: Mozilla removed this functionality from Firefox in version 2 and will not be reviving it. I’m going to leave the text below, as it does describe P3P, but any mention of Firefox should be considered as an example. … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 8

Posted on June 7, 2008 by samurai

Restrictive passwords make cracking more difficult by requiring that users use a wider range of characters; however, can restrictive password policies actually decrease time required to crack? This blog goes into the math behind it. http://lukenotricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-on-counting-restrictive-password.htm Mozilla has a new … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 7

Posted on May 25, 2008 by samurai

In the wake of so many ISP’s getting away with murder and the government looking the other direction it’s good to see that Florida is stepping in and fining Version for poor response time. http://news.cnet.com/Florida-…00-1036_3-6239655.html?tag=html.alert.hed This is a great video … Continue reading →

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BackTrack2 Wireless

Posted on May 24, 2008 by samurai

I’ve worked with a lot of people who had trouble with setting up wifi on BackTrack2 and decided it would be worth a post on how I manage it. I prefer to do this task from the command line, since … Continue reading →

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Using Tamper Data

Posted on May 21, 2008 by samurai

In my previous post on penetration testing I mentioned various tools that I use for web application testing. In this post and future posts, I will go into some of these tools and how I use them. This post will … Continue reading →

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 6

Posted on May 19, 2008 by samurai

I played with both of these plugins. The view formated source one didn’t do a whole lot for me, but the view source chart was a great improvement. It makes checking out HTML much easier, and with the added ability … Continue reading →

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