Facebook certainly doesn’t make it easy to find information about its users. A brief look at a persons page doesn’t show a whole wealth about the user. And to make it worse if you’ve got hundreds of Facebook Friends it can be an extremely tedious task navigating through each profile searching for email addresses. Luckily [...]
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Java 0-Day Exploit – Own that heap of shit of a computer your friend calls Windows… or Linux… or Mac OSX…
Oracle has finally issued an update for Java 7 (v 1.7.0_07) which solves the problem of the CVE-2012-4681 vulnerability which allowed hackers (like us) so easily own a machine. Luckily for us there are plenty of machines out there (I’m guessing by the time of this post 95% of machines) are still un-patched. With this [...]
Hidden Network Sniffing Tool – Mac OSX 10.7 Lion
Quick post: Sometimes i snoop around on the folders on my Mac. Anyway last night i came across a hidden application in Mac OSX 10.7. Its called WiFi Diagnostics and it seems to be quite a handy little tool. You can monitor the performance of your wireless interface, record wireless events, capture frames and turn [...]
Ports and Encapsulation – A brief Intro.
Ports Both TCP and UDP use ports to exchange information with applications. A port is an extension of an address, similar to adding an apartment or room number to a street address. A letter with a street address will arrive at the correct apartment building, but without the apartment number, it will not be delivered to the correct [...]
TCP/IP Overview – A Breakdown Of Computer Communication
TCP/IP model: Layers The TCP/IP model defines four totally independent layers into which it divides the process of communication between two devices. The layers through which it passes information between two devices are: Application The application layer is the layer nearest the end user. This is the layer that is in charge of translating data from applications into information [...]
