The News Review:
- Google used as password cracker
- Another Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore’s Web Site Hacked
- Bloggers keep the faith contentiously
- Qi Yuwu’s movie ambition
- Google’s Treatment of Underscores vs Hyphens – The Confusion
Google used as password cracker
RTE.ie – Nov 26, 2007
Steven Murdoch a security researcher who runs the Light Blue Touchpaper blog discovered that an intruder had broken into his website and created an administrator account in the Wordpress blogging software installed on the server. While carrying out computer forensics to discover the extent of the damage Murdoch became interested in learning the hacker’s Wordpress password. Advertisement As Wordpress passwords are MD5 hashed and stored in the user database Murdoch wrote a script which hashed all words in the English dictionary to find a match. When this failed Murdoch switched to a Russian dictionary as comments in that language were discovered in the new code installed on the server. This did not work either so he turned to Google. Murdoch inputted the MD5 password hash into Google and got several hits with one thing in common: the name ‘Anthony’.
Another Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore’s Web Site Hacked
PC World – Nov 26, 2007
The hacked Westmont pages are in an early stage of development but some of them were hosting blog pages that could ultimately be used to host ads for the drugs or even to link to other sites that actually sold the pharmaceuticals Thomas said. Thomas said attackers were most likely able to gain access to the blog by exploiting flaws in the. Representatives for Al Gore and Westmont College could not be reached immediately for comment. nce they gained access to the site criminals could have easily added malicious exploit code to the blog and that code could have been used to infect visitors’ PCs with computer viruses said.
Bloggers keep the faith contentiously
USA Today – Nov 26, 2007
Last summer Welborn abruptly closed the Book to concentrate on writing fiction. “I want to do good and I want to do lasting good — the kind of good that people carry around share put on their bookshelves and reflect on — rather than the kind of good that sparks a momentary flash until we surf to the next website and the next and the next” she told blog readers. Yet blogging proved too compelling to quit. She started a new blog (.
Qi Yuwu’s movie ambition
Channel News Asia – Nov 26, 2007
They showered him with gifts fashioned from scrapbooks and vanguard paper bought him a cake with the image of his face on it and performed a song-and-dance parody of his popular getai flick 881. There were smiles all around at the private party organised by his fan club but surely it’s a little strange to spend a birthday with strangers you only know on a name-tag basis?”Previously it was (a bit weird) because they only used to know the actor side of me but now that I’ve set up my own blog and I write about my daily life and my personal life I think my fans have gotten to know me better – not just as an actor but as a person” he said over the phone from Hong Kong where he’s meeting some directors and producers for another film project. com) reveals intimate details about how he bumped into Lee Ang at a Lust Caution party in Hong Kong and comments about his baby nephew whom he thinks is “very cute”. The Guangzhou native actually turns 31 on Wednesday – an age he considers to be the start of a man’s “golden period”. “It’s my first year getting into movies so I think it’s a good start” he said.
Google’s Treatment of Underscores vs Hyphens – The Confusion
Search Engine Journal – Nov 26, 2007
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