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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Facebook, now with more Scammers

Monday, June 23, 2008

I suppose it is inevitable that once a marketplace gains a certain amount of traction scammers will follow. I have listed a PSP on my facebook account for a while now and I just had a really exciting offer made. For the mother of a teenager she is in remarkably good shape.

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Why you should RTFM: REXML

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Found this great little commentary while researching the write() method in REXML: ie_hack: Internet Explorer is the worst piece of crap to have ever been written, with the possible exception of Windows itself. Since IE is unable to parse proper XML, we have to provide a hack to generate XML that IE‘s limited abilities can […]

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WordPress 2.5.0 and 2.5.1 vulnerable to attack

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Thanks to co-author Brandon Palmen for the heads up to a WordPress hack in progress. The attackers are using a few obfuscation tricks to inject code into WordPress installations using a recently announced vulnerability. More details in a well written write up here. The code snippets from a digitalpoint.com forum are shown using base64 encoding […]

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Open Access: coming soon

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Peter Suber has written a great post that should be read by anyone interested in education, open source, or what is known as Open Access. In my younger days I listened to the mantra of hacker lore, “Information wants to be free” and so the ideals of Open Access are quite appealing. This mantra seems […]

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Beansec June 2008

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Will be held at Middlesex Lounge in Central Square, Cambridge MA on June 18th, 2008. The Enormous Room is all booked up and so we are going to be at our backup location. We are considering making this a permanent move so come check it out. map to Middlesex Lounge

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Chinese hackers political assault on the blogosphere

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Disturbing news of a hacked blogger in China. This is not a simple DBD setup involving iframes. This was a highly targeted and politically motivated attack. The attackers not only posted a personal picture of her with instructions for viewers to assault her on the street but managed to infiltrate her Skype account.

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