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How Prevalent Are XSS Vulnerabilities?
How Prevalent Are Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities? Based on a recent experiment, I wasn't surprised to see that they're everywhere and finding dozens at a time doesn't present much of a challenge. Back in September, 2006 I sought Read More...
Posted 31 January 07 01:27 by Erik | 4 Comments   
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Decoding the Google Blacklist
After publishing last week's blog entitled ‘A Tour of the Google Blacklist' , I received a few queries about Google's encoded/hashed blacklist (enchash). This blacklist is separate from the unencoded blacklist that was the focus of the Read More...
Posted 10 January 07 04:07 by Erik | 3 Comments   
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A Tour of the Google Blacklist
[Update 01.10.07: In response to some of the queries that I've been receiving, I've published a follow up blog to discuss the structure/decryption algorithm of Google's Encoded/Hashed Blacklist .] I recently decided to devote a day to walking Read More...
Posted 04 January 07 12:48 by Erik | 52 Comments   
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Fun With Google Code Search
Yesterday, Google Labs launched a search tool that has many developers salivating. It's called Google Code Search (GCS) and allows developers to search source code from other projects to assist them in finding code for reuse. It has some impressive Read More...
Posted 06 October 06 10:53 by Erik | 7 Comments   
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What is Google Binary Search and Should We Fear It?
Background The so-called Google Binary Search (GBS) gained a fair bit of press attention in July 2006, when PC World published an article entitled ' Google's Binary Search Helps Identify Malware '. In the article, Websense revealed that they Read More...
Posted 14 September 06 02:46 by Erik | 12 Comments   
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