Tim on November 17th, 2007

I’m not a Facebook user. To be honest, I’ve got better things to do with my time. If I was a member though, I would expect my private profile to be just that: private. Well think again. According to the Valley Wag, a member’s private profile was made available to his employer.
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Tim on November 17th, 2007

Picture the following scene. It’s a dark, smokey room. Gathered around a table are the godfathers of several powerful crime families. They’ve huddled together to discuss their next big move. It sounds like yet another gangster movie, but it looks like something similar has happened in the world of online criminals. According to this news story, it looks [...]

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Tim on October 28th, 2007

Like most good developers, I always take precautions to prevent SQL injection. We’ve also got to worry about cross-site scripting, but now cross-build injection is becoming a concern. Apparently an attacker compromises a server that houses a build component or the DNS server used to find that server. The attacker can then take control of the build machine [...]

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