Well, I finally made some time to go down the the testing centre. And I passed, becoming an Zend Certified Engineer!

After not being bothered to update my weblog, I have decided to update it…

I have moved everything to a different server and enabled caching, which will mean a lot faster page loading!

So what is in store??

Hacks, cracks, and exploits; (Well Hacks and Exploits) Only the legal stuff such as laser audio transmitters and the liking (old school hacking). And exploits, however I have a policy of notifying the producers of the flawed product, if they don’t respond or don’t fix it in enough time. (eg. File inclusion = ~ 3 days). Then the exploit gets released publicly. If the author of the product genuinely needs more time, then upon assessment they may be given it. So you will only see it after the conditions above are met.

Regards,
Steven Roddis

Graphical Password Authentication Schemes like; Passfaces, Graphical Password and Picture Password are starting to surface, but are they really the great idea corporations are making them out to be? The short answer is no. Why well there are two main reasons why they were created:

• To thwart Keyloggers
• To make passwords easier to remember.

Both of which are just silly, lets start with the #1 reason; “To thwart Keyloggers”. Keyloggers record the keystrokes that you make, ok now if we had to use a mouse, what difference it that from a keyboard? There are programs on the market now that record mouse movements, if you combine that with screen captures (Even just an arbitrary area around the cursor, to save space), so for myth #1: Busted! Read the rest of this entry »