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Physicists at CERN are expected to announce that they have observed a new subatomic particle that may be the long-sought Higgs boson.
The Higgs boson made simple
A customer asked that we check out his intranet site, which was used by the company's employees and customers. This was part of a larger security review, and though we'd not actually used SQL injection to penetrate a network before, we were pretty familiar with the general concepts. We were completely successful in this engagement, and wanted to recount the steps taken as an illustration. "SQL Injection" is subset of the an unverified/unsanitized user input vulnerability ("buffer overflows" are a different subset), and the idea is to convince the application to run SQL code that was not intended.
SQL Injection Attacks by Example
Why We Need Hokum (Part 4)
I thought I was done with “Why We Need Hokum” at the end of our third installment (here are parts one , two , and three ), but that doesn’t seem to be the case.Last week, my column, Union of Concerned Scientists Cooks the Books, Media Swallow It , dissected the artful way in which UCS analysts had used corporate giving data to imply that General Electric executives were climate change hypocrites, by allegedly supporting think tanks that endorse the scientific consensus on man-made global warming and others that are skeptical.

