The Cyber Secure Institute (CSI), a group looking to raise awareness about cyber security, has released it’s first whitepaper in a new series about cyberwar. This whitepaper, written by retired USAF General Eugene Habiger, addresses the need for a new approach towards viewing cyberwar. Gen. Habiger goes on to validate his claims with real-world examples, [...]
CSI releases first in a new series of whitepapers
February 3rd, 2010Anonymous browsing or being a web ninja
January 29th, 2010These days it seems like everyone is looking at what you do online. Online advertisers make money from the ads placed on your site, but they also gather statistics about all your visitors for their own purposes. Search engines store information for a variety of reasons. Social networks contain more information on our past than [...]
Presenting the psych0tik network…. sort of
January 13th, 2010And so it begins. We’d like to present to you the beginning of the psych0tik network, a community of security conscious computer experimenters. We say the “beginning” of psych0tik as this isn’t a full release, rather a pre-release and beta. We’ve been working for the last 6 months to get a number of projects pulled [...]
proxyElite moving to psych0tik
December 18th, 2009Those of you who’ve followed this site for a while may remember the proxyElite project that richo and I started a few years ago. The concept was to provide a list of fast, working, stable proxies by constantly checking the status of a large list and using some backend algorithms to help determine which proxies [...]
The password problem
November 27th, 2009Odds are good if you’ve reached this blog, you have an account on at least one website somewhere on the wild wild web. This account could be on a web application ranging from something as critical as a finical institution or your primary email account to something as trivial as your account on some random [...]
My new friend Larry…
November 21st, 2009Today while I was working on reorganizing some of my wiki, I received an unexpected message from a fellow internet user, a friend going by the name of “Larry.”
Below is my conversation with Larry, who refused to give even the most basic information. How he got my screen name, for example. His business seemed to [...]
A new mindset – A new box
November 13th, 2009It’s been sometime since I’ve last made a post (like a really long time,) but I’m changing that with this post (obviously) and yet again promising to be more attentive. This time however, the change isn’t simply “more blog posts”, but instead a radical change. SamuraiNet will be merging with the psych0tik network and I [...]
Paypal Shuts down the Hackers for Charity
July 15th, 2009It would seem in an attempt to keep fraud off Paypal, the Hackers for Charity (and Johnny himself) have been put in quite a pickle. While out in Kenya helping fight off the world’s problems, Paypal has gone ahead and frozen his account because of some paperwork issues. I agree that security and fraud protection [...]
3rd party MSN problems: Update!
January 31st, 2009In my previous post 3rd party MSN problems, I discussed how to update pidgin to use MSN-Pecan, rather than Libpurple. After doing some research, the problem was found to be the implementation of MSNP15. Official MSN clients, as well as a few 3rd party clients, seem to fall back on older protocols. As MSN-Pecan uses [...]