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WordPress Security Flaw – Admin Password Reset
Posted by Howard Yeend in hacking, Wordpress on August 11, 2009
It is possible to reset the admin password in all versions of wordpress up to and including the most recent version 2.8.3.
This information comes from a milw0rm exploit.
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Facebook Chat History
Posted by Howard Yeend in hacking, Productivity, web on July 24, 2009
A little video I made with some instructions on how to get facebook chat history, even if your friends are offline.
It’s always really annoying when you remember that a friend sent you a cool link but they’re not online any more. With this facebook tweak you can bring up the chat history.
Important: To get your facebook chat history back, you need to be logged in and online on the chat box. If you’re offline it won’t work.
Facebook only stores chat history for a few days though, so there might be no history to retrieve.
This is an extension of my facebook hacks page.
PS: Sorry the text is so small on the vid, put it fullscreen and you can read it better :0)
Hacking Facebook
Posted by Howard Yeend in hacking, javascript, Other Code, Productivity, web on May 8, 2009
Hacking Facebook with Javascript
now updated for the latest (March 2010) version of facebook!
Because facebook relies so heavily on javascript, and because we can type javascript into the address bar, that means we can “poke” into the workings of facebook to do things that we wouldn’t normally be able to do. It’s not “hacking” exactly, but it employs the same sort of skills hackers use when looking into applications. The best part is that because it’s all using the same control codes (or “API”) that facebook uses, there’s no way for facebook to find out you’re doing it, so it’s totally safe! (I think…) Besides, we’re not going to be doing anything too dodgy, just a few little tweaks ;)
PHP HTTP Interface
Posted by Howard Yeend in hacking, networking, PHP on March 13, 2009
This code give you a HTML front end for HTTP using PHP. I quite often find myself wanting to fire up putty to send some custom HTTP headers, so I wrote this simple PHP tool to provide a “front end” for HTTP. It allows quick and easy customisation of HTTP headers, sends them to a web server and shows you in plain text the HTTP response headers and body. It’s quite nifty and rather useful for debugging / hacking / etc. Read the rest of this entry »
Security
Posted by Howard Yeend in hacking on March 13, 2009
I don’t have time right now to give a lot of detail about computer security as a whole. But here’s what I’d say if you asked me how best to learn about network security and hacking: Read the rest of this entry »
Wargames
Posted by Howard Yeend in hacking on March 13, 2009
WarGames
Here’s a list of some of the best/most involved/hardest hacking challenges online. Hope you enjoy. One day I plan to host a challenge site here. But you’ll have to wait for that. Read the rest of this entry »
Breaking CAPTCHA without OCR
Posted by Howard Yeend in CAPTCHA, hacking on November 30, 2005
Breaking CAPTCHAs Without Using OCR
For my own PHP CAPTCHA implementation, click here.
This article details a method I have discovered to bypass CAPTCHA security, without having to use Optical Character Recognition software. It depends on an implementation problem that was quite common among CAPTCHA scripts when I originally published this in May 2005.
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How To Hack – Beginners Guide to Hacking Computers
Posted by Howard Yeend in hacking on December 1, 2004
“ The Only True Guide to Learning How to Hack â€
originally by R4di4tion , with a few updates by myself.
You stay up all night on the PC typing and typing. No, you’re not hacking. You’re begging someone on IRC to teach you how to hack! Let’s look at the facts:
- You’re a luser and you’re annoying. No one likes you if you ask others how to hack without taking the least amount of initiative.
- You’re not worthy of any title even resembling hacker, cracker, phreaker, etc., so don’t go around calling yourself that! The more you do, the less likely you are to find someone willing to teach you how to hack (which is an infinitesimal chance, any way).
- You’re wasting your time (if you couldn’t infer that in the first place). Many real hackers (not those shitty script kiddies) spend all their insomniac hours reading and, yes even, HACKING! (Hacking doesn’t necessarily (but usually does) mean breaking into another system. It could mean just working on your own system, BUT NOT WINDOWS ’9x (unless you’re doing some really menacing registry shit, in which case, you’re kind of cool).)
The Hacker’s Manifesto
Posted by Howard Yeend in hacking on November 30, 2004
The Conscience of a Hacker
better known as “The Hacker’s Manifesto”.
A prolific and influential piece of writing, January 8, 1986:
Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”…
Damn kids.
They’re all alike.
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