May 2006

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Teen Buzz used by pupils to circumvent mobile phone ban at school

metro.co.uk reports:

A high-pitched alarm which cannot be heard by adults has been hijacked by schoolchildren to create ringtones so they can get away with using phones in class.

Techno-savvy pupils have adapted the Mosquito alarm, used to drive teenage gangs away from shopping centres.

The alarm, which has been praised by police, is highly effective because its ultra-high sound can be heard only by youths but not by most people over 20.

Well, apparently adults can hear it from 1m away, but not if further away.

Anyone has a copy of the file?

Written by pinolobu on May 26th, 2006 with no comments.
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Cracking WEP and WPA Wireless Networks

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Written by pinolobu on May 25th, 2006 with no comments.
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Cheap webhosting = bad security

For production work, steer well away from free/cheap webhosting companies like hostultra.

While reading a discussion about .htaccess files at corz.org, someone complained about lack of security skills of the admins there, where instead of securing their boxes, they disabled some useful php functions due to “security issues.”

By the way the .htaccess discussion whose link is provided above is very good, far more readable that the one at apache.org

Written by pinolobu on May 11th, 2006 with no comments.
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Gary McKinnon aka Solo: the new Mitnick?

US govt alleges that between February 2001 and March 2002, he repeatedly hacked into, from the UK, dozens of computers used by the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Department of Defense.

Talk about bad timing: that’s within 9/11’s timeframe. (more…)

Written by pinolobu on May 11th, 2006 with no comments.
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