Posts under ‘Internet’

Prevent direct linking to your images with mod_rewrite.

Recently I noticed that some bloggers where directly linking to my images here at UNiHacker.com. Normally I wouldn’t mind that people link to images as long as they give me a link or something, after all bandwidth isn’t cheap when people direct link to images. Direct linking causes unnecessary bandwidth usage and also uses CPU [...]

Detecting port scan attacks.

Detect those annoying port scanning kiddies with psad, a port scan detecting app that not only works, but is GPL licensed. The software comes with email alerts, automatic IP blocking and threshold settings allowing the scanner ot be fulling customizable, plus its open source.

Hacking with an iPhone and the US Postal Service.

Have you ever thought about using an iPhone and the US Postal Service to hack into a network? Using the iPhone’s WiFi system you can actually ship the iPhone to the target company, and hope it doesn’t get delivered for a couple days. Basically you mail it to a none existent “employee” and hope it [...]

Mobile Me, 1 in 3 customers hacked.

Apple’s Mobile Me community is facing more security issues as 1 in 3 customers of the Mobile Me service have been hacked or have had their identity stolen. MobileMe is an Apple service which let’s customers use a wide variety of services in concert, including websites, mail, calendars, contacts, photos, music and other Mac functions.
Mobile [...]

Joomla dot org hacked, Joomla 1.5 sites at risk.

All Joomla 1.5 websites are at serious risk in getting hacked. In only the last two days I’ve managed to find a handful of websites, including our own, that have been hack into and defaced. Now, come to find out, the official Joomla.org website has also been hacked. It appears that the Joomla API for [...]