Blog about things familiar to most people, from a non-standard point of view.
A few years ago I collected materials for the Winamp Skin Museum, and some of the files seemed damaged to me. I decided to explore them, and it turned out, that in fact these skins are just zip files with a different extension. What will happen, if you extract these files? Read More …
Yahoo! Messenger was one of the first text messaging apps on the Internet. He made a real revolution in communication, offering users a convenient alternative to telephone conversations and email correspondence. Let's talk, how it appeared and why it could not compete with Read More …
We continue surfing the web in search of cool cybersecurity stories. And today - an instructive story about, as Amelie Coran (Amelie Koran on her website) I caught a hacker with almost my bare hands, attacking World Bank server, as well as an insider, who tried to play on this story. Having neutralized Read More …
Digital forensics – it's an identification process, conservation, extraction, data analysis and presentation, that have been processed electronically and stored on digital devices. This data, known as digital artifacts, can be found in computers and smartphones and may play a key role in Read More …
Old operating systems and applications can still surprise. Every file sometimes hides a whole story.. Who is the real author of the Pinball Space Cadet demo game and is it true Bliss desktop wallpaper ("Serenity") were filmed in Sonoma County, State of California? Similar Read More …
The Internet is an amazing invention of mankind, and we're used to it, that it is also free. Yes, Certainly, we all pay to connect, creation and maintenance of websites, but Internet surfing itself never demanded money from us, and Internet access via browsers Read More …
All human information can be divided according to importance, like that: Losing files is always unpleasant. That's why we make backups. But the degree to which information security efforts are paranoid depends on the importance. There is a file category, which cannot be lost under any circumstances, even in case of BP. Read More …
DuckDuckGo– it is a famous open source search engine, which declares, that it does not track or store personal information of its users. This is independent, which “tired” from online tracking. As the company itself declares: We help protect your privacy with our free browser, which can Read More …
Assembly and handwriting. For the purpose of analysis, the source code was taken, leaked to the public on October 10, 2023. The program is written in C++ (uses the C++17 standard and supports Windows XP) and was assembled on MSVS 2015. Project file tags indicate the creation of source code on a Russian-language OS. Read More …
Protection Mechanisms, configured by Cloudflare customers (For example, firewall, preventing DDoS attacks) for websites, may be bypassed due to gaps in firewall security controls, potentially exposing clients to attacks, which Cloudflare should prevent. Attackers can use their own Cloudflare accounts to abuse trusted relationships Read More …