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New Sony Control Shell + Any Android Phone. IBM Putting Watson To Work In Health Insurance. Will Gamers Discover the Cure for AIDS? How Secure Is My Password? Index of /madchat/vxdevl/avtech. Top 100 Network Security Tools. How to Obscure Any URL. How to Obscure Any URLHow Spammers And Scammers Hide and ConfuseLast Updated Sunday, 13 January 2002 NOTICE: the IP address of this site has changed of late, and I've been unable to set aside time for the rather large task of revising this page. Its numerous links to the old IP address won't work. It'll be updated soon! Since this page was first written in 1999, Internet Explorer and Netscape have both begun dealing with URLs differently, particularly in versions 6 and above.

The URL (Universal Resource Locator) of the page you are now viewing is It is also The weird-looking address above takes advantage of several things many people don't know about the structure of a valid URL. There's a little more to Internet addressing than commonly meets the eye; there are conventions which allow for some interesting variations in how an Internet address is expressed.

How It's Done IP Addresses In Sum. Network administrator interview questions. Whynottobuyamac.png (1440×3297) Google Web History Vulnerable to Firesheep Hack | PCWorld. Hacker Claiming He Can Exploit Windows Update. A hacker who stole SSL certificates from a Dutch-based certificate authority claims that he can distribute malware through Microsoft's Windows Update. There's a hacker out there somewhere claiming that he can issue fake updates to Windows-based desktops and laptops thanks to a set of stolen digital certificates.

This means he has the potential to pump malware into Microsoft's Windows Update service and infect the entire Windows user base. Calling himself "Comodohacker," the supposed 21-year-old Iran resident recently took credit for several attacks against certificate authorities (CA) – organizations and companies authorized to issue secure socket layer (SSL) certificates – including one against Comodo in March, and one just recently involving Dutch-based DigiNotar and 531 stolen certificates.

It was this latest DigiNotar hack in which Comodohacker retrieved several certificates that could be used to impersonate Microsoft’s Update services.