Category: hacking

How to Defend Your Website with Zip Bombs

If you have ever hosted a website or even administrated a server, you’ll be very well aware of bad people trying bad things with your stuff. When I first hosted my own little linux box with SSH access at age 13, I read through the logs daily and reported the IPs (mostly from China and Russia) who tried to connect...

Day Camp 4 Developers: PHP Application Security

Application security is on everybody’s mind these days. Every day we hear of another site hacked or another data breach. Does your team do everything it can to keep your site secure and your data safe?Day Camp 4 Developers is a semi-regular online meetup of developers who want to teach people things that don’...

What? Why Would Someone Hack My Small Business Website?

You are an entrepreneur, manager or a marketing pro responsible for the website in a company which is simply meant as a digital business card to introduce the company, its services, and the latest news. Not including any state secrets, right.. so why are they still doing this?Making money (a lot of money). Yes, even...

Hacking the Fitbit – Emulating a Pager for Twitter DMs!

I’ve been trying to wake up earlier in the morning. The trouble is that alarms wake everybody up, not just me. To get around this problem, I recently bought the cheapest Fitbit I could find, having learned that they have a neat silent alarm. The truth is, if I had the cash I would rather have bought an Apple watc...