Remove annoying pop-up in Opera for Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3 is a great game. One of the new features though, requires you to install a plug-in for your web browser, which ties in with the Battlelog. The Battlelog is where you will search for available servers, launch the game, chat with friends, view stats, profiles, and much more. The core of the game revolves around the browsers usage, which allows you to see your stats from anywhere, reply to messages on your profile or friends battle logs, etc. I personally use it on both my main machine to launch the game, and my HP Touchpad to keep another window open while playing on the desktop. The Tablet allows me to see whats going on, (Read More…)

November 19th, 2011

WordPress Core XSS Vulnerability in wp-comments-post.php

Apparently there is a XSS flaw in the latest version of wordpress. I’m not sure its exclusive to the latest, as I’ve not got an older install to test against, but do have some older source files to compare, and doesn’t look like there was any sanitizing in the post process for any of the form fields. At least, not from what I had on file. So, how does one fix this when there is no current patch.

As suggested by other blogs making the rounds, you can turn comments off all together until wordpress puts out a patch. That is, unless you wanted to fix it yourself, temporarily, (Read More…)

August 15th, 2011

Back|Track 5 KDE X64 VMware Install Instructions

Installing Back|Track 5 KDE 64-bit in VMware

- For those who have problems with X crashing after booting and trying “startx”, the following may help you fix the problem as well as install in VMware.

First, boot off the ISO in VMware and just use the first option from the Grub menu. (Read More…)

May 11th, 2011

Navy Wallpaper and Video Tutorial

I created a Navy wallpaper that you can download from my DeviantArt portfolio. Click the preview to go to the download page.

There is also a video tutorial to go along with this, which shows how I created the rope for the anchor and wrap it around everything. Click here for the video

Music by MC Frontalot – Go check out his music, & follow him on Twitter.

May 5th, 2011

GHDB tricks for refining your queries

Various admin and login portals work on alternate ports. Its kind of security through obscurity really, you just need to know where to look. Google is great at standard queries such as:

inurl:"(com|net|org)/admin/"

but almost never shows results for ports other than port 80. Google does however store the alternate port results when found, but they must be queried individually per port number to find them as all standard HTTP results generally show first.

You can change various parts of the following queries (Read More…)

December 16th, 2010

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