Category Archives: tech

technology related pieces

Sep
17
2008

SQL injection attack on BusinessWeek

SQL injection is nothing new, but it’s not every day that you read about a famous, widely-read journal like BusinessWeek getting hacked and distributing malware. Apparently BusinessWeek readers were directed to download malware from a Russian site (that has since become unavailable).
SQL injection attacks are relatively easy to protect against. One good way [...]

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Sep
11
2008

Stock market manipulation

I ran across this article today relating how a popular news item that rose through the ranks via Google’s Automated News Crawler resulted in a stock market plummet for one unfortunate company, United Airlines. Apparently an older article concerning UAL’s bankruptcy filing, originally published in 2002, was mistaken for current news, picked up by [...]

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Sep
09
2008

Back in action

After more than a 2 1/2 year hiatus, the blog is once again open for business! I’ve updated wordpress and supporting themes and plugins to the latest versions. I’ve even added support for OpenID logins for adding comments (courtesy of Vidoop’s own Will Norris and Chris Messina).
Perhaps I should back up a few [...]

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Nov
30
2005

your packets are going over the speed limit

i found this (see image below) today while browsing digg. it’s a prime example of geek/network jock humor at its finest [you probably won't find this very amusing if you're not a computer nerd, and in fact will likely roll your eyes in an expression of contempt.. but for the *rest* [...]

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Oct
05
2005

google and sun partnership

so today [technically yesterday] the net was all abuzz with the rumors of an apparent partnership between the much lauded (and lately ever-controversial) google and sun. speculations ran rampant in forums like slashdot where people theorized that google is about to unleash *THE DEFINITE END* to microsoft office by using its ajax [...]

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