Archive for 2010

Where was the Hacker in the Room for X-FRAME-OPTIONs?

Saturday, November 13th, 2010 by webstersprodigy

Or maybe where was the Dev in the room? Imagine you’re sitting at a computer logged into your favorite website, lolcats, and you click on a shady link while logged in. There are a lot of attack scenarios that start this way. Browsers have a cross domain policy that prevent the shady site from accessing any of [...]

Toorcon 2010 Talk

Saturday, October 30th, 2010 by webstersprodigy

My over caffeinated self somehow managed to stumble through the talk at toorcon. I’m self critical over the whole thing, but still overall a great experience, and I’m glad I did it. I was totally nervous. This was my first ‘con’ and the room was packed (people standing at the wall), I spotted relatively famous [...]

Linkedin Crawler

Friday, August 13th, 2010 by webstersprodigy

The following is also source used in the grad project. I’ll post the actual paper at some point. But here is the linkedin crawler portion with the applicable source. By it’s nature, this code is breakable, and may not work even at the time of posting. But it did work long enough for me to [...]

email_spider

Friday, August 13th, 2010 by webstersprodigy

This was a small part of a project that was itself about 1/3 of my graduate project. I used it to collect certain information. Here is the excerpt from the paper. Website Email Spider Program In order to automatically process publicly available email addresses, a simple tool was developed, with source code available in Appendix [...]


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