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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Well it took a year, but one of the last things I did before leaving Symantec last October has been released.
The advisory for a problem I discovered with a colleague when testing last year for the Autodesk Backburner product has finally been released.
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/research/SYMSA-2007-008.txt
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
So I was helping someone at work with an analysis of some session cookies for an application, I have to say these are the worst results from the analysis tests done by stompy I've ever seen for a cookie used to manage a login session..
=== Custom input (length 7) ===
[+] ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
The following are Test Credit card numbers that you can use when doing anything that involves testing a payments system. The card numbers will always verify and get authorised but they will never get settled so no money changes hands.
The work with any expiry date and address or CVV.
Test Credit ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
So this is a post about nothing in particular, well a bit of a round up of stuff.. Last week was a fun week, was at InfoSec on Wednesday, bumped into a ton of people from various point in my IT Sec history.
Introduced several people form work to Belgian ...
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
No don't mean rhyming slang for a curry... I've been teaching myself to script in Ruby the last few days... I had a small problem, basically I use a Mac and I need to access some calendaring information held in Exchange, I need a reliable means to dump the information ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Managed to make in into the office today... Bloody amazed to be honest... The hardest bit was the last couple of miles from the railway station to the office.. The trickiest bit will be the journey home...
Only about an inch or so of snow in London when I left, tho ...
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
I've just started to play with a new tool for web app testing, it is called Tamper Data and is a Firefox extension. It basically replaces the traditional proxy used for web application testing and allows you to capture and modify requests made by Firefox to a web application.
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Well still hunting for a job and atm it isn't going that well. Have had several interviews, there was a couple of good chances but, one fell by the wayside as they decided to not progress to a second interview after stringing me about for a couple of weeks. Another ...
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Tomorrow is somewhat a big day, going to need a lot of luck. If I'm lucky I'll keep my job, if I'm not I'm unemployed..
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
There really seems to have been a lot of Windows 0-Days recently that are getting exploited before announcement by anyone?
The VML flaw is one and another PowerPoint one in the last 24 hours. Both where being exploited in the wild before they got looked at by the security community.
Something ...
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