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Using Google documents as a web proxy

As weird as it might sound, there’s a way to use Google documents as a web proxy. The image above is a screenshot of [Antonio] demonstrating how he can view text data from any site through the web giant’s cloud applications. Certain sites may be blocked from your location, but the big G can load …

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Amazon Kindle Fire browser hacked for your Android pleasure

Everyone gets to be smooth as Silk
Hackers have managed to get Amazon’s proxy-based Silk browser compiled into other Android versions, allowing anyone* to take advantage of the Amazon cloud.…

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Using Google servers as a DDoS tool

Google’s servers can be used by cyber attackers to launch DDoS attacks, claims Simone “R00T_ATI” Quatrini, a penetration tester for Italian security consulting firm AIR Sicurezza.
Quatrini discovered that two vulnerable pages – /_/sharebox/linkpreview/…

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Faux LED scroller using phosphorescence

Hackaday reader [BGR] wrote in to share a video he put together showing off a cool “poor man’s LED scroller” that he built. Rather than build a huge array of LEDs, spending tons of time time wiring and programming, he decided to use only a handful of LEDs on a moving display instead. The scroller …

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How bin Laden thwarted US electronic surveillance

Prolific emailer used thumb-drive proxy
Osama bin Laden didn’t have a phone or internet connection, but for years he was a prolific user of email who frustrated Western efforts to track him by saving messages to a thumb drive and having them sent from …

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Novell shares more specifics on patents it is selling to Microsoft, Apple

According to a January 14 filing with the Security and Exchange Commission, Novell is selling off 800-plus of its management, security, identity and collaboration software patents to a consortium of tech companies, including Microsoft.

Prior to this f…

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Web Hosting Benefits of SSL and Traceback For Your Ecommerce

Web Hosting Benefits of SSL and Traceback For Your Ecommerce When it comes to web hosting, finding a company that handles your entire domain registration needs is important. There can be items that you may need that some company’s do not offer. By reviewing the services they offer you can make an educated decision on …

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Three Steps to a MITM’ed Android Device

In the first piece in this series we looked at an iPhone vulnerability which makes it easy for a hacker to hijack an iPhone’s data connection, and the serious security implications this could have for your network.

But the iPhone is by no means unique…

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