Ollie Parish, also known as @op on Repl.it, is an avid Repler and constantly pushes our systems to its limits (in the best way).… | Continue reading
The Bill-and-a-half-ennium Tonight (2017-07-14), at or around 02:40:00 GMT, the Unix time will have a value of 1 500 000 000 seconds, counting from January 1st, 1970. The last event of this kind, when Unix time reached 1 000 000 000 seconds, has been on September 9th, 2001, when … | Continue reading
It is this time of the year again, and so we are proud to present a special revelation for Christmas! The Brothers Grimm were not only academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors, but also the world's first IT Security analysts. They wrote their so call … | Continue reading
.IM top-level domain Domain Name System Security Extensions Look-aside Validation DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol TLSA ("TLSA" does not stand for anything; it is just the name of the RRtype) resource record. Okay, seriously: t … | Continue reading
This is the third post in a series covering the Samsung NX300 "Smart" Camera. In the first post, we have analyzed how the camera is interacting with the outside world using NFC and WiFi. The second one showed a method to gain a remote root shell, and it spawned a number of intere … | Continue reading
Internet security is hard. TLS is almost impossible. Implementing TLS correctly in Java is Nightmare! While the higher-level HttpsURLConnection and Apache's DefaultHttpClient do it (mostly) right, direct users of Java SSL sockets (SSLSocket/ SSLEngine, SSLSocketFactory) are left … | Continue reading