Career Path

I could listen to Andrei Codrescu from corpse.org for hours.

Here are links to all his short segments on NPR's All Things Considered:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4464351

The one about feral cats is the funniest of his more recent social commentaries.

Poet on Call : NPR

“Browser Rider” is a hacking framework to build payloads that exploit the browser. The project aims to provide a powerful, simple and flexible interface to any client side exploit.

Browser Rider is not a new concept. Similar tools such as BeEF or Backframe exploited the same concept. However most of the other existing tools out there are unmainted, not updated and not documented. Browser Rider wants to fill those gaps by providing a better alternative.

This is neat. Check out the video and the online demo. Also the source is available.

Browser Rider - A hacking framework for browser exploitation

Mmmmmm. Cardiac tamponade, but with cheese.

Bacon & Cheese Roll

In short

Stored (persistent) XSS: Filtered
Reflected (non-persistent) XSS
DOM-Based: Partial
In tag: No
In Javascript: No
In [tag] parameter: Filtered
In HTML: Filtered
HTTP Response Splitting: No*

* HTTP Response Splitting can used to switch XSS filter of via X-XSS-Protection header.

Breaking the IE8 XSS Filter

Real Bears. Real Hockey. Let The Awe Commence

Bear Hockey League

"How He Did It, 2008" is an inside, behind-the-scenes account of the presidential election produced by a special team of reporters working for more than a year on an embargoed basis and detached from the weekly magazine and Newsweek.com. Everything the project team learns is kept confidential until the day after the polls close.

This is a good read. This is the kind of real information I wish was covered instead of the fake front that gets put up during the race.

Highlights: Newsweek's Special Election Project

In what could be the most awesome technological doohickey to come out of this election cycle, CNN is having its correspondents show up in the CNN Election Center AS HOLOGRAMS!

"CNN will have 44 cameras and 20 computers in each remote location to capture 360-degree imaging data of the person being interviewed. Images are processed and projected by computers and cameras in New York. There'll also be plasma TVs in Chicago and Phoenix that will let the people being interviewed see Blitzer and other CNN correspondents. [CNN Senior Vice President David] Bohrman says the network can project two different views from each city so Blitzer can appear to be in the studio with two holograms."

No more via satellite? Now via hologram.

You're my only hope CNN

In the theme of the other bacon related posts on MemeStreams, from the makers of Bacon Salt, I give you baconnaise.

Tom, I think it is time to add a Bacon section to the Topic's list. :)

Baconnaise

National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance

The FBI on Friday boasted that its two-year long undercover operation against users of the crime forum DarkMarket netted 56 arrests worldwide and prevented $70 million in economic losses, publicly acknowledging the sting for the first time.

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DarkMarket members believed the site was operated from Eastern Europe, despite a 2006 warning from uber-hacker Max Ray Butler, known then as Iceman and Aphex. Butler cracked the site's server and announced that he'd caught Master Splynter logging in from the NCFTA's office on the banks of the Monongahela River. Butler ran a site of his own, and the warning was generally dismissed as inter-forum rivalry. " even when Butler was arrested in San Francisco last year on credit card fraud charges, and shipped to Pittsburgh for prosecution.

I didn't know the FBI in Pittsburgh did this kind of work... I guess neither did those 56 cyber criminals.

Previous story predicting the sting operation.

56 Arrested in DarkMarket Sting, Says FBI