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Category Archives: Hacking

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Can you find the vulnerabilities(2010)?

September 10, 2010  |  Written by Security Ninja  |   Application Security, Hacking   |   Leave a comment

Hi everyone, It has been almost a year since the last “can you find the vulnerabilities” post so I thought it was time for another one. This year I’m taking a slightly different approach. The post in 2009 gave you a small piece of source code to review and you needed to find the vulnerability. This year I’m going to give you the application name, the vulnerability type/name and all of the source code for … Read more >

When security becomes sensationalism

August 26, 2010  |  Written by Security Ninja  |   Hacking, Ninja News and Updates   |   3 Comments

Hi everyone, This is our second blog post of the week and it’s a bit different to the content we normally publish on the Security Ninja blog! My colleague Angel Alonso will be writing today’s blog post so before I hand you to over Angel I wanted to give you a bit more information about his knowledge and experience: Angel Alonso works as the Head of Operations Security for Realex Payments in Dublin. During his … Read more >

Burp Suite Tutorial – The Intruder Tool

March 12, 2010  |  Written by Security Ninja  |   Application Security, Hacking   |   10 Comments

Hi everyone, I have been spending some time this week reviewing some of the old Security Ninja blog posts now that we are getting close to our second birthday. I wanted to create a list of things I’ve promised to write about but never got around to doing. The first item on my list is a tutorial for the Burp Suite. If you Google “Burp Suite Tutorial” my blog post from 2008 saying I was … Read more >

From vulnerability to fraud, how hard is it?

February 9, 2010  |  Written by Security Ninja  |   Data Loss, Hacking, PCI DSS   |   9 Comments

Hi everyone, The blog I’m writing today is a bit different to the blogs I normally write. I normally discuss application security vulnerabilities or how to write secure code but I wanted to post something different today. I used to write the occasional post which covered a specific issue in security I’d been researching that wasn’t necessarily related to application security. I’m happy to say that I have a new Ninja Research post for you … Read more >

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