The Nexus of 2024

Tag: web services

  • Cult of the Dead Cow releases ‘Goolag’ beta

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    Hactivists Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) have released a Windows-only beta of Goolag, a rich client for the Google Hacking techniques pioneered by hacker J0hnny I Hack Stuff. Basically, Goolag makes it easy to use Google to search out security vulnerabilities related to your web site — or, presumably, others.  From cDc’s blog: SECURITY…

  • Poisoning squirrels in the repository

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    Slashdot’s linked to a bunch of good stories on computer security recently. Squirrelmail repository poisoned has the catchiest title, and plus it’s about squirrels, so it goes first. What happened was that an intruder got into the site where you download Squirrelmail, and introduced a very subtle change in the code that would allow somebody…

  • How’d *that* one get through QA?

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    Last year, Microsoft set up a Windows Live Messenger bot to let kids talk with Santa: great fun for kids, a good way to increase readership — and of course a potential wealth of information to mine to better target ads, both for the kids and their parents. Talk about win/win! They reactivated it this…