Tag: WTF
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Bad Gramma’
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Mibbit
It has been a while since I had something interesting to say. Anyway, I’ve recently found out, from pretty good sources, that Mibbit is logging all conversations sent trough the website. This might include NickServ/authentication passwords. There is no official EULA stating this is being done, thus being a violation of privacy. (but who cares…
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Dad at Comedy Barn
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Achmed the Dead Terrorist
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Multiple Memory Access Vulnerabilities Linux Kernel
Well, it had to happen… Yesterday evening two of our linux boxes were exploited. I had to try it out for myself; and yes, it really does work. 😐 Booted up my Ubuntu in Parallels, installed build-essential & ran that program! sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc what-ever-the-file-name-is.c ./a.out This is what it looks like: My-oh-my……
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User-Agent ……/1.0
While checking the logs of one of my websites I noticed something rather weird. Some person (65.210.123.237) with User-Agent/browser “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.0; Windows NT; ……/1.0 )” was downloading _all_ files from my website. Totally ignoring robots.txt and requesting pages without providing a referral. This seemed quite odd and didn’t seem to be a decent/real…
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School exams
Whilst reading over “Chapter I: The Internet” in my Hypermedia course; I couldn’t help noticing a few things. I quote: All IP’s of local PC’s in a local network begin with “192.168” DNS is a service on the internet that links hard to remember IP’s to easy to remember domain names A PC with a…