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During the easter break, I was playing with my my wireless Linksys IP camera which, although I bought several months ago, I hadn’t taken my time to give the attention this beauty deserves until now! :)

The model in particular is the WVC54GCA, which I would say is one of the most affordable Wi-Fi IP cameras out there (about GBP 80 in the UK), making it a great toy to tinker with. [...]

Clickjacking is one of these types of attacks which are incredibly simplistic to perform, yet very powerful in today’s web-driven world. In this post I would like to draw you attention to one more technique that can be used to perform successful clickjacking.

Basically the browser slowly becomes a quite powerful graphical environment. This is due to two relatively new features such as the canvas and support for SVG (Simply Vector Graphic). Interestingly enough, SVG is not so simple. [...]

I am sure that you know this song. Yes, Daft Punk absolute rocks, although this post is about malware not the band.

Anyway, I was going through some blogs today and I stumbled across some articles regarding a malware affecting MacOS. Apparently this piece of malicious software is of a type downloader/installer. All it does is to connect to a remote server, fetch the payload and execute. Nothing special really! [...]

First of all, I must say that I am not really a bug hunter. I am more on the side of tactical exploitation – you know figuring out your way through the system even if it requires bug hunting and reverse engineering at the end. Anyway, the news is that IE (Internet Explorer) pwns SecondLife.

Before going into details why and how it happens, I would like to bring your attention on SecondLife for a moment. [...]