Amit’s lab

About 10 days ago, the news broke out specifying that Twitter was attacked by a hacker and sensitive information was taken out and published. Twitter denied it but now, it is public how the outage took place. The Hacker himself has done the honours to detail how he achieved this feat and the rationale behind [...]

Cracking softwares is one of the favorite pastimes for everyone. Everyone loves to use cracked versions of games, IDEs, utilities et cetera so that they don’t have to pay for the licensing fee. Now, Licensing schemes vary from company to company and software bundling too. I definitely appreciate the efforts put by engineers in cracking [...]

Isn’t the title of the post geeky enough? Atleast I think so, I never thought of something like this even in my dreams until I came across this research from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
Can you just imagine, Everything you type on your keyboard sitting alone in [...]

Alright!! this news is an old shit. I was thinking to write about it for many months but was always wary of the leagal bindings I have with my company. Now, that the news is old, stale and widely public, I feel like talking about it.
Satellite TV hacking has been in a lot of focus [...]

Okay, Last time I deviated from the topic a bit but nevertheless, it still deserved to mention the importance of secure programming to keep away novices from breaking a system just by some invalidated inputs.
Now, let’s get back to Bytecodes. Let me put the disclaimer first that these posts of mine are not tutorials [...]

Last time, I talked about how to write strongly typed enum patterns so as to prevent breaking the program from invalid inputs and keeping the program short and sweet for efficiency. Although, I wanted to continue on discussing bytecode but then, I felt like discussing Tainted Object Propagation as I mentioned in my last post.
Basically, [...]