Tutorial - Breaking Weak Encryption With Excel
The importance of a good encryption algorithm is essential to functional security. And yet there are a lot of misguided initiatives to use an 'internal', 'trusted' and 'secret' algorithm. Obscurity IS NOT Security and an algorithm that hasn't passed external scrutiny may be fundamentally flawed. If you go down that road you may even find your encryptions hacked by non-programmers.Here is a tutorial on how easy it is to crack an encryption that is not properly designed. For this tutorial, We are going to work with a really simple and weak algorithm - XECryption.Here is a narrative summary of the algorithm:The password the user chose is

GenApple - First Glance at the First Information Brokerage
Internet has become a transfer medium for a lot of new business models, some of which have failed and others which are thriving. In this environment, there is new service called GenApple, which boasts to be the 'first information brokerage in the world'

How To - Malicious Web SIte Analysis Environment
There are numerous sites and web-server side scripts which perform malicious attacks or simply unpleasant problems to their visitors.The latest one that gained prominence, is the although not really causing much harm is the "Want 2 C Something Hot?". It is an elegant XSS hidden which just shares itself on the facebook profile of the visitor.

Database Admin Hacking his Ex Firm - Is It All His Fault?
Data Breaches has just published information about a Former GEXA employee pleads guilty to computer intrusionAccording to the article, here is what happenedKim remot

HTTPS Data Exposure - GET vs POST
Here is a quick chart showing the data exposure when considering GET vs POST and also HTTP vs HTTPS.URL arguments refer to arguments in the URL for GET or POST (e.g. foo.com?arg1=something).Body arguments refer to data communicated via P