http://www.cipher.org.uk org uk Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:49:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some time ago I start creating a list of google queries (Bugle) people could use to hunt bugs in source code available in the web. The project started before Google Code Search, so the only way to point to source code was using the Filetype and ? * . operators ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2008/02/05/source-code-review-with-bugle/ Fuzzing using man pages This article is to introduce a (probably) new fuzzing idea (FuzzMan) that is built around man pages. Many know that in *nix systems if you type man command you will get a manual page informing you on how to use a ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2007/04/18/fuzzman-man-pages-based-fuzzer/ "Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN) application."I was introduced to Hamachi last week, and I thought wow that sounds cool and easy. So I installed both windows and linux versions and start messing around. while I was using different networks, I noticed that if you start ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2006/11/03/hamachi-considerations/ Guest Post by (Pascal.Cretain[AT]gmail.com) An awful lot has been said about hacking, most of it is simply not true. Due to misinformation, ignorance, the decline of mass media, and other miscellaneous obscure powers, hacking has been associated with electronic crime, illegal access to forbidden realms, the pentagon, the FBI, the CIA, ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2006/10/18/hacking-a-very-brief-introduction/ Guest Post (by Nick Lagos) "The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me." -- Dan Connolly, The XML Revolution In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a British researcher working at CERN (Conseil European pour la Recherche Nucleaire), envisioned the birth of a linked information system ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2006/10/12/the-semantic-web/ Track Big Brother using HoneypotsAlthough honeypot�s main application is to create attractive traps for hackers, there is a good opportunity for hackers to track governmental or other information gathering agents using the same method. A scenario like that would be a really big breakthrough into the world of secrecy, since ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2005/12/12/applied-honeypots/ This is an experimental area in which I'll post some Cipher Challenges for you to solve , at the moment it will not be anything fancy , retrieve the plaintext from the following ciphertext and email it to me : Challenge .1 FUKPGCZHZCI MVZKOC, QBH ZW ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2005/05/02/cipher-challenge/ Many Techniques exist on how to scam people using email or websites. This is a list of these kind of scams so you can see them and recognise them. (have your eyes open) URL Obscurity Using Password fields: http://username:password@www.example.com/ Ex. http://www:microsoft.com/download/@www.cipher.org.uk This link will lead to cipher.org.uk and not Microsoft Using different Base: Dword ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2004/07/22/phising-techniques/ Install NetBSD on Cobalt RAQ1 Why install netbsd on a Cobalt RAQ ? cause the restore OS they provide is so old and unsupported it can be considered Dead, plus NetBSD is cool. After I got my own small and pretty RAQ1 I had a big problem on which OS ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2004/03/18/netbsd-on-cobalt-raq1/ This list contains 510 of the most important names in Information Security. A Ross Anderson Martin Abadi Tuomas Aura Jose Abad-Peiro Alessandro Acquisti Leonard Adleman [bio] Gordon Agnew N. Asokan Derek Atkins Stefan Axelsson Michel Ferreira Abdalla Gordon Agnew Jee Hea An Nadarajah Asokan Giuseppe Ateniese Tuomas Aura B Adam Back Don Beaver Mihir Bellare Steve Bellovin Philippe Béguin Josh Benaloh (formerly Cohen) D. J. Bernstein John R. Black Joan F. Boyar (formerly ... http://www.cipher.org.uk/read/2003/12/07/cryptographers-complete-list/