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DoS Attacks

Written by IncandescentLight on December 30, 2009.

DOS (Denial of Service) attacks, heard of them taking down servers, restricting traffic and even bringing down a country's communications. But, how do they work? A simple example would that being a heart. Let's say the veins are the internet. And you are pumping blood through this tube. The blood is good traffic. What happens if you overload the veins with fat (bad traffic)? And so the heart has a failure and can't pump blood to the other organs, a Denial of Service.

DOS attacks are one of th...

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GUI's in Perl

Written by eljonto on December 30, 2009.

Contents:
-Introduction
-Notes on global/local variables
-Mainwindow/widget and argument syntax
-Geometry managers
-Structure of a Perl Tk program
-Common widgets and widget arguments
-Configuring widgets
-Example of a perl Tk application
-Anatomy of example application
-Example programs using different widgets
-Label, Entry Fields, Buttons and Text-Areas
-Dropdown boxes
-Listbox
-Scrollbars embedded within Text-Areas
-Menus
-Using multiple windows (Toplevels)
-Outro


INTROD...

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An Introduction to CSRF Vulnerabilities

Written by sanddbox on December 30, 2009.

CSRF Vulnerabilities




What is a CSRF Attack?



A CSRF attack is a form of attack in which commands are transmitted from a victim to another website without the users consent. CSRF attacks are usually invisible and rely on browser functionality (such as automatically loading images).
How is a CSRF Attack Carried Out?

CSRF attacks are embedded in an element browsers automatically react to (such as an image tag).

Lets assume that Joe has just registered with a brand ne...

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Alternative to Robots.txt

Written by Bren2010 on December 16, 2009.

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After completing some of the realistic missions on hackthissite.org, I realized that robots.txt and search engines could be a security flaw in websites. With robots.txt you spell out all of your files, and without robots.txt search engines will spell out all of your files for you. However, if your confident enough in your coding, it should not be a major flaw, but it is harder to control access to some files, like...

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