Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole

28/8/2008 – 7:51 am

Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The demonstration is the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the web’s core protocols.

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New iPhone Comes Loaded with Photos of the Girl Who Made It

21/8/2008 – 8:09 pm

We’ve seen pictures from the factory coming loaded on new iPhones before, but this is the first time we’ve seen what appear to be intentional snapshots loaded on a new iPhone. Surprise: the person who put your iPhone together is an cute girl!

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Using Open Source Software for HTTP Load Testing

14/8/2008 – 1:46 am

A good way to see how your Web applications and server will behave under high load is by testing them with a simulated load.If you leave out the load-testing packages that are no longer maintained, non-free, or fail the installation process in some obscure way, you are left with five candidates: curl-loader, httperf, Siege, Tsung, and Apache JMeter

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5 Advanced CSS and JavaScript Coding Solutions

13/8/2008 – 6:46 pm

We would like to start with 5 advanced elegant coding solutions and ask you if you are interested in this series and would like to have more similar articles. Please let us know what you think in the comments to this post. Now let
’s dive in. You should probably have some CSS-knowledge already before starting reading this article.

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MIT student newspaper publishes the banned DEFCON slides

12/8/2008 – 8:24 am

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has sued three MIT students — Zackary M. Anderson ‘09, Russel J. Ryan ‘09, and Alessandro Chiesa ‘09 — and MIT to prevent the disclosure of security weaknesses in subway ticketing systems.

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