Black Hat hacker gains access to 4 million hotel rooms with Arduino microcontroller
Bad news: With less than $50 of off-the-shelf hardware and a little bit of programming, it’s possible for a hacker to gain instant, untraceable access to millions of key card-protected hotel rooms. Read more Also there is his personal paper site here
Java: Speed of Math
Java: Speed of Math by ROYVANRIJN on JULY 15, 2012 Last week I’ve created a ray marcher 3d engine which renders the Mandelbulb. And I’ve translated it into pure Javascript a couple of days later. After the translation I decided I should optimize the code a little for speed, so I made some speed improvements […]
We’re no strangers to code golf, you know the rules, and so do I
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/6043/were-no-strangers-to-code-golf-you-know-the-rules-and-so-do-i Write the shortest program that prints the entire lyrics of “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. Rules: Must output the lyrics exactly as they appear in the above pastebin. Here’s the raw dump: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wwvdjvEj Cannot rely on any external resources – all lyrics must be generated by / embedded in code. No […]
British MPs want Google to censor certain search results
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/03/british-mps-want-google-to-censor-certain-search-results/ Google’s search engine is a pretty popular search tool and is undoubtedly one of the most popular search engines around, but it seems that while you can pretty much search for anything on Google, a committee of MPs in the UK have decided that the best way…
THC-SSL-DoS is a tool to verify the performance of SSL.
Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processing power on the server than on the client. THC-SSL-DOS exploits this asymmetric property by overloading the server and knocking it off the Internet. This problem affects all SSL implementations today. The vendors are aware of this problem since 2003 and the topic has been widely discussed. […]
NetcraftSurveyAgent/1.0
50.17.122.30 – – [23/Sep/2011:16:17:45 +0300] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1” 200 – “http://www.netcraft.com/survey/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Netcraft Web Server Survey)” % host 50.17.122.30 30.122.17.50.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-50-17-122-30.compute-1.amazonaws.com. 107.20.43.220 – – [26/Sep/2011:22:58:44 +0300] “GET / HTTP/1.0” 200 9534 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NetcraftSurveyAgent/1.0; +info@netcraft.com)” % host 107.20.43.220 220.43.20.107.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-107-20-43-220.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
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