SamuraiNet Blog

This is the final post for the SamuraiNet blog, representing the cut-over or transition from SamuraiNet to psych0tik. My new blog will be part of the psych0tik.blog, along with richo and CarbonLifeForm.
The new blog can be viewed at: http://blog.psych0tik.net
~samurai

Those 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 […]

Odds 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 […]

Most everyone I know has had the experience of being contacted by a scammer, spammer, or other internet predator. I decided to a poke a little fun at an “old friend,” calling himself Larry.

It’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 […]

It 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 […]

After a bit of research and a new discovery, I have posted an update to my original “3rd party MSN problems” blog entry. In this update, I go into a bit more detail as to exactly why libpurple failed.

I was recently asked to write an article for the Hellbound Hackers newsletter and choose to write on the mindset of a hacker. What goes on inside their heads? What makes a ‘great hacker?’

Yesterday I attempted to connect to my MSN account with pidgin and received the error “Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book.“  After a bit of research I found that Microsoft has prevaricated parts of the MSN protocol in turn for the WLM protocol.
In order to fix this issue, you must switch your protocol to WLM […]

On Sunday a post on geekcondition.com described an exploit in Gmail that lead to multiple GoDaddy domain’s being stolen. On Tuesday, Google released an official update responding to this.