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Something about sudo, Kingcope and re-inventing the wheel
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~5 min
Posted
by george
on
27 May 2013
Willems and I are currently on an internal assessment and have popped a couple hundred (thousand?) RHEL machines, which was...
Privilege Escalation in SQL Server (Depending on some dodgy requirements)
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~3 min
Posted
by Ian de Villiers
on
08 August 2012
I was playing with a few SQL server idiosyncrasies more than a year ago before becoming so completely distracted with...
Is the writing on the wall for general purpose computing ?
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~3 min
Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
29 January 2010
The Apple iPad announcement set the interwebs alight, and there is no shortage of people blogging or tweeting about how...
Happy New Year! (No predictions.. promise..)
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
31 December 2009
It’s the last few hours of 2009 here in South Africa so i wanted to take the opportunity really quickly...
John Viega’s “the myths of security”.. Really??
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
23 August 2009
i go through a ton of books. Over the past 10 years, this has been dominated by books on computer...
Zappos number 1 priority
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
04 May 2009
[Zappos.com] is one of those companies people love to write about. They make headlines for their use of new media...
Attack Vector based Risk Management?
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Posted
by Charl van der Walt
on
11 March 2009
Interesting post by Michael Dahn at pcianswers.com discussed (again) the difference between compliance and security. Do you know the joke about...
You know you are getting old..
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
28 October 2008
When you blog a link to poetry: [The man watching] is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, that i picked...
On working when everyone else is asleep…
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Posted
by Charl van der Walt
on
23 January 2008
This quote reminded of something H always says: “When opportunity comes… its too late to prepare” – John Wooden –...
Is URL / Variable Name the new Port Number ??
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
10 January 2008
There has been a fair bit of blog buzz about the new SQL Injection worm that ran around infecting sites....
The myth of the expert
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Posted
by nick
on
29 September 2007
Something we preach very strongly in our training is the importance of an understanding of the underlying technology / application...
Medical Doctors.. bah! hambug..
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
02 September 2007
I’ve ranted a few times about things i hate about the way we “do medicine”. (Doctors are not alone here.....
MTBF and Light Bulbs..
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
23 August 2007
Some of you will know that i finally moved out of the shoe box i lived in for 6 years...
2 Un-related thoughts.. on Echelon and the recent Skype Outage..
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
20 August 2007
I suspect somewhere there exist cardinal rules of blogging which would state that using a single post to make 2...
mh.blackhatFeedback(Side-jacking, Hamster)
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
14 August 2007
Ok.. so its a lot later than i promised, but i did mention that i would post some feedback on...
On hacking and politics
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Posted
by Charl van der Walt
on
11 August 2007
I meant to blog this whilst I was still in Vegas, but only got around to it now. Its arb,...
Have a (one) care sir….
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
11 July 2007
Someone in the office was discussing Microsoft’s recent horrible foray into the anti-virus market. Apparently an online source held one-care...
In Defense of Testing Pens… (aka how to keep your soul while being a pen-tester)
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by Haroon Meer
on
04 July 2007
A short while back, a discussion broke out on a mailing list about the nature of being a pen-tester. The...
and then there was one….
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
19 June 2007
First IBM announced their interest in Watchfire, and now HP announces their interest in SPI Dynamics. “Consolidation in the industry”...
Shuttleworth comments on Microsoft/Ubuntu deal rumours
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by Haroon Meer
on
16 June 2007
Mark Shuttleworth on his blog makes it clear -snip- “We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the...
Do you group your passwords?
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
30 May 2007
This has probably been pondered, but something occurred to me whilst entering my new home.. The guard house grants access...