While doing a bit of research after finding a few links on the web as well as emails from friends which my browser automatically download a file to my system, security.awt, and would have prompted me to install. This really isn’t a security file but rather malware who’s goal was to most likely grab all […]
Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category
Beware Leaving On the “Unknown Sources” Option Android Phone Users
Proxy Using Putty and Chrome
So I found a good way to proxy traffic if you ever find a need to do so. It just requires you have a linux box somewhere such as Dreamhost, Putty the SSH client and a browser with an addon that lets you create a proxy. If you don’t have a Dreamhost account then you […]
YouTube Widget for TireRack
One of my somewhat recent projects I worked on completely in Flash was a “YouTube widget” in which I created a video carousel that adheres to the specifications given by YouTube that reads the XML feed for each of 6 our channels though the XML parser I wrote would read any YouTube feed. They do […]
Brute Force WPS Using Reaver
A major vulnerability was found in WPS and routers using WPS. This vulnerability can lead to you being able to break the WPS and ultimately the WPA/WPA2 encryption on the router. Some important details in regard to this is even if the router has WPS disabled that it can still be circumvented. This brute force […]
Add Some Flare with Google Gauges and GeoCharts
Check out these awesome new Google APIs! Google Gauges! Download Gauges Example These gauges are rendered using SVG or VML and will animate the gauges. Because of their use of SVG and VML it’ll actually work in IE6 which I find amazing. Google GeoCharts! Download GeoChart Example The geochart is showing states with color […]