Featured Image: Two panels from Exploits of a Mom, a strip of the WebComic xkcd, showing off the danger of code injection attacks from unexpected user input. In the broadest definition of the term, code injection is any attack where unexpected user input causes an unexpected response from a computer system. For example, maybe you […]

Featured Image: A panel from SMBC, perfectly illustrating just how important social engineering is in real world hacking and how much it’s overlooked by the media. It’s a general truism in any type of security work that your security is only as strong as your weakest link. Unfortunately, whenever humans are involved, they tend to […]

Many of you may have heard of DDoS attack, short for Distributed Denial-of-Service. The famous hacktivist group Anonymous once posted a petition to the White House asking that DDoS be decriminalized, likening it to a digital version of the Occupy movement. The analogy is an apt one: where in a physical occupation protest, many people […]