September 2008
The importance of weaponization in exploit development
A while back (quite a long while back now I suppose) I entered SmugMug's "competition" to "hack" their system. As it was hardly impenetrable I succeeded and succesfully claimed a security bounty from them; although they weren't so keen to publicise that! Now, you can moralise about security…
Creating an IRC front/back-end from a C# web application
This lengthy howto will show you how to hook up C# to an eggdrop IRC bot. I've taken this approach because it avoids the overhead of managing a fully fledged IRC client in C# whilst still providing 2-way command functionality between IRC and the application. The app works by: Connecting to the…