Posts Tagged ‘hacking’

How to Prevent a Sidejacking Attack

By Guest Author • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Security / Hacking

Sidejacking is a method used by hackers to gain direct access to a website or service using the credentials (stored in a session, or cookie) of a trusted user without their knowledge.
Also known as a One-Click Attack or A CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgeries) Attack, this is an extremely easy method of sabotaging user accounts and [...]



How to Prevent SQL Injections

By Guest Author • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Security / Hacking

An SQL Injection is a way for hackers (or unsuspecting users) to send unwanted instructions to a database via forms and input boxes on a website. If the website doesn’t validate and correctly filter out potentially harmful characters in user input, these can be sent to the database as part of a query that can [...]



Anonymous Declares War On Scientology

By DavidReece • Jan 3rd, 2008 • Category: Feature, News, Technology

An internet-based hacking group known as ‘Anonymous’ has gained wide support on sites such as Youtube since announcing a public vendetta against the notorious cult of Scientology.
The first video announcement (below) was made after a promotional video starring Tom Cruise was leaked, and subsequently taken down for copyright infringement after embarrassed Scientologists complained.
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