Tag Archives: Web Security

Odd bugs and the case of an aging database

Posted on August 29, 2010 by samurai

I was doing some troubleshooting recently trying to fix some issues reported in the Captcha of a registration system. The Captcha wasn’t always properly displaying and wouldn’t recognize valid code entries intermittently. After tracing some of the PHP to find … Continue reading →

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psych0tik releases GoogleSharing proxy

Posted on February 7, 2010 by admin

A few weeks ago we released a post on staying anonymous online through the use of various configuration changes and Firefox add-ons. One of the Firefox add-ons mentioned was the GoogleSharing proxy add-on. This allows Firefox to reroute unauthenticated requests … Continue reading →

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Anonymous browsing or being a web ninja

Posted on January 29, 2010 by samurai

These days it seems like everyone is looking at what you do online. Online advertisers make money from the ads placed on your site, but they also gather statistics about all your visitors for their own purposes. Search engines store … Continue reading →

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The password problem

Posted on November 27, 2009 by samurai

Odds are good if you’ve reached this blog, you have an account on at least one website somewhere on the wild wild web. This account could be on a web application ranging from something as critical as a finical institution … Continue reading →

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Gmail Vulnerability: All hype?

Posted on November 26, 2008 by samurai

As far as I know this has not been patched yet. There is a very simple solution to monitoring this problem. Simply adding your own filter with an alternative email address. I just tested this and while the email is … Continue reading →

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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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