Brian Scott

Ryan has updated all of the geekdojo blogs with a few anti-spam measures. You will notice the captcha image at the bottom of the comment form... Read More

Recently I have been thinking about ways to make it harder for spam bots to submit blog comments or any other type of spam. Most likely they are sending out custom POST requests to comment pages where the name or ID of the form fields is well known. It is just a simple matter of supplying values for those field names and posting the request to the appropriate url. The solution I thought about was giving all the input fields random IDs. The IDs should change for each new request... Read More

The URL displayed like this: www.citibank.com/?qSEMndGSGqMburfeUKU84ew3p36o9d7i1uVI93ZDK6f4z3KrnhLpZ3h087h But it was actually something like this: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.google.com/url?q=http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian Except the end of the URL wasn't http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian, It was a completely encoded string pointing to the actual Phishers website. Read More

A critical buffer overflow bug in the GDI+ handling for every MS product that can display a JPEG it seems. VS included... Read More

Found this post from Maxim an interesting read on Code Access Security. Read More