Category Archives: SamuraiNet Archive

only_samurai’s SamuraiNet blog; archived

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 →

Posted in SamuraiNet Archive | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

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 →

Posted in SamuraiNet Archive | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in SamuraiNet Archive | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in SamuraiNet Archive | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

pwlib.php

Posted on May 3, 2008 by samurai

This is my first build of the php version of pwlib. Nothing is quit set in stone yet and for all I know I might scrap the whole thing. This should be enough to see how it will interface. If … Continue reading →

Posted in SamuraiNet Archive | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Reading Rainbow: Episode 3

Posted on April 27, 2008 by samurai

Welcome back boys and girls, I have some great articles for you this week. Political Lobbying,.. the hacker way – An XSS vulnerability in Obama’s website was exploited to redirect visitors to Clinton’s website. Not the most difficult hack of … Continue reading →

Posted in SamuraiNet Archive | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment