Tag Archives: hacking
Rave Reviews for Your Password Sucks
After running a breakout session entitled “Your password: how bad guys will steal your identity” at the 2012 UAS Conference, Dan gets rave reviews. Nice. Continue reading
Internetland
In Internetland, everybody has prosopagnosia. That’s why it’s so important that the people who live there treat their passwords with care. Dan tells a story about Alice, Bob, Eve, and an antiques store. Continue reading
Bank Security
Dan tries to tell a bank that their website is insecure. You’d think it’d be easier than this. Continue reading
More Geeky Fun – Hack Security Cameras
This was one of my most-popular articles in 2005. If you enjoyed it, you might also enjoy: The Ten Weirdest Sex Toys I’ve ever seen (2009)! A dirty-looking calendar I found at work (2011). My beliefs about why it’s wrong to lie to children about Santa… Continue reading
Royal Welsh Show
I’m writing this from the (badly-protected: just had to go to a page with a particularly funky JavaScript to break out of their front-end browser) BBC Wales bus at the Royal Welsh Show, where Alex and I are working on behalf of SmartData. Suppose I’d… Continue reading
Claire’s Back
=o) Last night was fun. After spending most of a day hacking into the BBC’s weather centre (I wanted a weather forecast XML stream, but couldn’t find a free one, so with Kit’s help I stole one instead), he, Claire (recently returned) and I went… Continue reading
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #41: Discover a major security flaw in the university network, that provides any user with half a brain, a computer in their room, some practice, and a lot of patience,… Continue reading
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