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Posted by imolloy on October 8, 2008 – 12:10 pm
Filed under Political, Security

Apparently activists are not only terrorists, but it’s all due to poor software.

“Both Hutchins and Sheridan said the activists’ names were entered into the state police database as terrorists partly because the software offered limited options for classifying entries.”

RBAC in MySQL

Posted by imolloy on August 1, 2007 – 9:54 pm
Filed under Code, Computers, Research, Security

While I haven’t finished converting my RBAC implementation for MySQL to conform to the SQL standard (I wish we had thought of this originally), there has been some interest so I placed my code online. You can find my RBAC in MySQL page here.

Trip to NYC

Posted by imolloy on June 12, 2007 – 9:09 pm
Filed under NYC, Security

On Sunday around ten IBM interns and I made a trip into New York. We split into two main groups at the beginning: those who wanted to go to museums, and those who wanted to wander the city. I joined the wandering groups and we walked from Grand Central to Times Square , down Broadway to the Empire State Building. The day was cloudy, so we we decided to pass on going up; perhaps another weekend.

After that we wondered off to Greenwich Village and Soho, Little Italy (where we ate lunch), and China Town, before heading off to Ground Zero. I had never seen the World Trade Center pre 9/11, so it’s really hard to imagine exactly how much the area has changed. Based on the photos and using the surrounding buildings for comparison, it’s almost sickening.

Moving on, went went south to Battery Park, back north through the financial district and Wall Street, and past several court houses (all the time making the Law and Order “Dun-Dun!”). Finally, we took Park Ave. back to Grand Central and the train back to Ossining, about 10 miles north of my apartment.


If you don’t see the humor in this picture, you don’t know what I do.

Finally, it ended at Landmark Diner, which was actually really good. Three of the four of us who made it all the way to the end had enormous three-egg omelets and home fries and cleaned the pates.

So that was my first real trip into the city, as terse as possible, since I’m really not in a writing mood at the moment. My main reason for writing this is to post my pictures for the other member of the entourage. So, here is a tarball.

1337 H4×0ring

Posted by imolloy on April 16, 2007 – 3:17 pm
Filed under Computers, Security

So apparently I must be 1337. How 1337, one may ask? Well, apparently, I’m capable of h4×0ring other’s blogs without even trying. I’m so good I’ve done this twice now. Only problem is, I won’t tell myself how I did it.

Earlier this morning, tired of being bombarded with Moderation Requests for comments that are all spam (I believe I have four valid comments on my blog, and one might even be me), I decided to do something about it. I figured a simple captcha, no matter how trivial, should be sufficient to filter at least some of the bots. Minimal effort on my part, and it will hopefully save me a lot of time pressing the “Filter as Spam” button.

When I logged in, however, I was greeted with two new incoming links. Since I’ve said very few profound things on here (few = zero?), I was immediately curious who was linking to me. The two links were:
http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/?p=601 and http://blog.oraclebrains.com/.

I visited both sites, realized there was (and probably shouldn’t be) any links to me. A little source viewing and I realized why: they were hacked. I can’t really confirm anything at this point, but looking through their source, it appears hundred of links to my blog and another were injected. You can see for yourself in the images below.

Part of it makes me worried that perhaps I’m infected with some Javascript and am acting as a puppetnet master. If I am, it can only help my Google ranking.