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Gareth Heyes wrote a nice blog entry on JavaScript hacks: "I love to use JavaScript in unexpected ways, to create code that looks like it shouldn't work but does, or produces some unexpected behavior. This may sound trivial, but the results I've found lead to some very useful techniques. Each of...
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"GreenSQL team is ready to present new version of GreenSQL - SQL Database Firewall. GreenSQL intercept SQL commands being sent to MySQL, checks them, and then either halts the query or passes it on to MySQL proper. Then it returns the query results to the calling application. Currently only MySQL database...
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"The Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM) described on this website is designed to help you understand and plan a software security initiative. BSIMM was created through a process of understanding and analyzing real-world data from nine leading software security initiatives. Though particular methodologies differ (think OWASP CLASP, Microsoft SDL, or...
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Solving CAPTCHA with neural networks is not new; this is actually a glorified OCR... What is new, is to do it in JavaScript using the new HTML5 canvas capabilities and pre-calibrated neural network. John Resig, creator of jQuery, analyzes a very neat piece of GreaseMonkey script which cracks CAPTCHA using new...
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Monster.com has recently experienced yet another breach. "As is the case with many companies that maintain large databases of information, Monster is the target of illegal attempts to access and extract information from its database. We recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken,...
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The Washington Post reports today a new breach: "A data breach last year at Princeton, N.J., payment processor Heartland Payment Systems may have led to the theft of more than 100 million credit and debit card accounts, the company said today." More info on the article.