Archive for the ‘How-To’ Category
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
People have hacked Digg before. This guy found an xss injection that allowed him to force users to Digg his articles. Digg happily patched the problem and went on with their business. However, there is another problem with Digg that has to do with their content parsing system. The difference ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
The pipe is the vertical line above your enter key. It looks like this without the quotes: "|". Using the pipe character in the Linux shell allows you to string commands together, performing another command on the output from the first. This is a list of 10 things you can ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Introduction
Most of us have seen movies where the thief takes control of a video cameras and shuts it down or switches it to a fake feed with his laptop. It's not just fiction, and this article will show you how to do it.
By video surveillance systems I refer to ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Since the beginning of the industrial age, man has created most of his mechanical energy from combustion of some sort. Steam engines were powered by burning coal to heat water, some simple factory engines were even wood powered. Even before the Industrial Evolution, man used the combustion of wood and ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Any experienced admin will tell you that it is very easy to figure out which lines in an http log are hack attempts and which are not. If you don't know, you're about to find out. It is actually normal to find very large amounts of malicious traffic in your ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
There is no guaranteed way to secure your blog, there will always be a way in, but there are ways to make sure that you're not vulnerable to any widespread problems. Here are some tips to keep your blog under your control.
1. Minimize Total Code
This is very similar to the ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This article is for people who have just began to use Linux, it is not for Linux experts. If you know quite a bit about Linux, you will not find this article useful. It does not fully cover the use of these commands, but gives basic examples. These commands are ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Now that you have your ubuntu router set up, what can you do with it? There are a few interesting things you will notice if you look at your events list long enough. You might notice a large number of incoming requests for a specific port. Let's use one that ...
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