The popularity of short URL services, like tinyurl.com and bit.ly, has grown due to the character limits of Twitter. These services pose a security risk because they could be used to conceal the addresses malicious sites. Users are being taught to trust all URLs and just blindly click. Sites like Twitter should offer users the [...]

A major attack vector web programmers sometimes forget about is input cleansing. If user inputs are not cleansed prior to submitting the data to the SQL server attackers can submit malicious code to the server. This code can make the server return more data than it should or allow the attacker to delete entire databases. [...]

An article in the Epoch Times (a Chinese newspaper) about a brilliant Chinese professor who has cracked her fifth encryption scheme in ten years. She and her team have cracked the SHA-1 scheme. As a result, the U.S. government and major corporations will cease using the scheme within the next few years. Read the full [...]

I found this article on SC Magazine that reminded me of Hackers the movie because in the movie the hackers hack into the street lights so they have all green lights. Here is the article that can be found at SC Magazine. Ericka Chickowski Jan 9 2007 18:29 Two Los Angeles municipal traffic engineers were [...]

Earlier this month a hacker named muslix64 claimed to have cracked the AACS protection used in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.Muslix64′s hack first surfaced on December 18 on YouTube, showing the decryption of an HD DVD movie, and promising more details soon. Click the “play” button below to watch the clip: Muslix64 posted a link to [...]

I have read that you need to know security tools if you are going to break into the IT/ Network Security field. I have found this website http://sectools.org/. The site ranks and updates the top 100 network security tools. This site seems like a great place to see what tools are on the rise and [...]

I read a recent post that detailed how to hack gift cards. The post shocked me how insecure the gift cards are. I hope the release of posts detailing how to hack gift cards will bring about a change in the security of new cards. You go to a store that has gift cards on [...]

In this level our background information is: This time Network Security sam has saved the unencrypted level7 password in an obscurely named file saved in this very directory.In other unrelated news, Sam has set up a script that returns the output from the UNIX cal command. Here is the script:Enter the year you wish to [...]

In this level our background information is: Network Security Sam has encrypted his password. The encryption system is publically available and can be accessed with this form: You have recovered his encrypted password. It is:e39h;;6= Decrypt the password and enter it below to advance to the next level. In this level Sam has changed several [...]

In this level our background information is: Sam has gotten wise to all the people who wrote their own forms to get the password. Rather then actually learn the password, he decided to make his email program a little more secure. This level very similar to level 4. The method you used in level 4 [...]