So today when I connected to my WiFi it got a note “Your WiFi is being controlled” which made me paranoid that maybe my router is hacked or something. I have yet to convince my father about this, or maybe is the one trying to spy on me.
A…
I know that the browser’s default protocol to access any site is http:// when https:// is explicitly not mentioned, but even then if we browse to a website say www.facebook.com, the response header from the Facebook servers would have HSTS…
Is it possible to prevent CSRF by checking the Origin and Referer headers? Is this adequate, provided that requests with neither are blocked?
I always used to automatically delete session cookies when I closed the browser. Having to retype passwords every time is a little annoying though. How safe is it not to clear session cookies once you’re done browsing? There is a lot of ma…
I recently read some articles about phishing with punycode. To prevent it when using firefox, you simply type about:config and turn the parameter network.IDN_show_punycode = true. Now you can easily see if somebody tries to scam you. Well,…
I’ve been recently having a problem where my ISP (BSNL India) has been injecting ads/weird Javascript Tracking codes onto my browser, making the website unusable and unresponsive.
I’m sure this is my ISP because the domain starts with &quo…
In this post we are going to take a quick look at what it takes to
write a libemu compatibility layer for the Unicorn engine. In the
course of this work, we will also import the libemu Win32 environment
to run under Unicorn.
For a bit of backgro…
In this post we are going to take a quick look at what it takes to
write a libemu compatibility layer for the Unicorn engine. In the
course of this work, we will also import the libemu Win32 environment
to run under Unicorn.
For a bit of backgro…
Are there any standards or industry practices with respect to the implementation of DUKPT with AES (as opposed to DUKPT / TDEA which is covered by ANSI X9.24-1:2009)?
Understanding that DUKPT is a Key management scheme for deriving a do…
Premise:
Some time ago a friend of mine created a Microsoft based mail account (Live Id/Microsoft Account. He just needed the mail) to use for receiving some messages. The account was created and then left unused for a few days. Later, wh…
