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Feeding cookies to a bot

You’ve probably heard of XSS. The javascript injection which will steal your cookie, bypassing the cross-domain policy implemented by browsers. Normally, you are not allowed to see the cookie of another site/control a user on another site.
However, if a site has XSS leaks, this does become possible. All you need is a way to inject [...]

14Aug2008 | 4 comments | Read more

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Re-use paid service

Programmers are lazy. Especially when it comes to protecting their program. Yesterday I came across a nice example of laziness.
Let’s say you buy an online service somewhere through paypal. Like for example a site which will submit your article to hundreds of other websites. But you have to pay each time you submit a new [...]

27Jul2008 | 4 comments | Read more

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Defeating Captcha’s

This is my first post on this brand new website focussing on programming tricks.
This one is for all you blackhat seo people out there trying to beat captcha’s with gocr or your own code.
The first thing you have to realise is that beating captcha’s with neaural networks is possible, but it’s very hard.
So if there’s [...]

23Jul2008 | 1 comment | Read more