Posted by Johan Cyprich on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Security
Hack into a computer, and you get to keep it. This was the challenge at CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 last March 26-28. There were three computers that were presented for this contest: Sony VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10 Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1 MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2 The purpose of this contest was to [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 12 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: How To, Security
Managing users is essential when running a forum. In spite of phpBB’s many strengths, it is lacking in this area. Deleting a user in the administration panel is quite an involved task and I normally do this through the backend by directly modifying the phpbb_users table in the MySQL database. While this is not the [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Programming, Security
PHP has to be one of the easiest programming languages to learn for building dynamic web sites. In less than a week of study, you can be adding PHP code to your web sites and saving form data to a database instead of having it e-mailed to you. The only other language that is just [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 21 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Security
“You could spend a fortune purchasing technology and services … and your network infrastructure could still remain vulnerable to old fashioned manipulation. … If your goal is to protect your network, you can not rely on technology alone.” Kevin Mitnick, “My First RSA Conference” A common perception of a hacker is that of an individual [...]
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