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by Declan McCullagh

“A recent court case provides a rare glimpse into how some federal agents deal with encryption: by breaking into a suspect’s home or office, implanting keystroke-logging software, and spying on what happens from afar.
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MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) can be used effectively to verify files integrity and authenticity by computing and checking MD5 hashes.

In Windows: MD5summer can be used to perform the task.

While in Linux: The famous md5sum utility is usually used.

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FlipV and FlipH filters can be used to flip images vertically or horizontally in IE (These filters works in IE only). the following code shows you how to control an image by using the HTML Select Tag to FlipV, FlipH or Apply both filters at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

IT security professionals are only marginally more likely to use passwords than standard users, according to a new survey.

A concerning 35 per cent said that they just don’t get around to using a password on their business smartphones, compared to 40 per cent of the general population. Read the rest of this entry »

by Bogdan Calin

An anonymous user posted usernames and passwords of over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to a web site called PasteBin. PasteBin is currently down for maintenance but I managed to get a copy of the list, and quickly generated some statistics from these passwords. Read the rest of this entry »

Seoul: The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today’s approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board. Read the rest of this entry »

This article introduces steganography and explains some of its techniques and methods supported by examples. My objective was to make this post as short as possible while covering all important information. Your comments are welcome for any possible enhancements or for future articles about steganography by me or other people.
I have also posted this to HackThisSite.org articles.

Steganography

Steganography is all the techniques used to exchange secret messages without drawing attention. It is the science of hiding information. Read the rest of this entry »

“A controversial provision in the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) allows investigators to demand access to cryptographic keys or fully decrypted data. Failure to comply leads to jail time”

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JavaScript codes can be injected in the address bars of web browsers to edit online forms before submitting them, bellow I am posting an example for archiving purposes.

Assuming the page has a contact form, where submitted data is sent to an email address included in a hidden HTML input tag as in the following code:

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<form name="ContactForm" action="submit.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="Email" value="admin@website.com" />
…
</form>

To change the email address to: myemail@hotmail.com, the following code can be injected:

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Your browser’s address bar (URL bar) can be used to inject JavaScript code directly into the webpage you are visiting without reloading the page. The following codes are useful to do cookie editing:

First, visit the targeted webpage and inject the following code to view realted cookie’s fields and the values assigned to them.

javascript:alert(document.cookie);

Second, to edit a certain value use:
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