Patrick Coombe
WordPress is probably the most popular website framework on the planet Earth. In the security community it is also known as one of the most exploitable frameworks for a number of reasons. There are pretty much 2 main types of WordPress attacks that I've been seeing these days, nothing new: Brute forcing wp-admin via dictionary attack. Injecting code /payload [...]
If you have ever tried to login to Facebook from a new device, Facebook might prompt you to prove that you are the account holder by identifying photos of your friends. Recently I needed to gain control of an account that was not mine (that I had full authorization to do so) and had to go through this task. [...]
I was talking with my crazy neighbor blogger, who would like to remain anonymous. He wears sweatpants about 350 days out of the year, smokes Marlboro Lights, and has a network of websites that sells movie posters (which I beleive to be bootleg). Somehow he makes a living off of it. He constantly trolls me about blackhat SEO. He's [...]
You just cannot reinvent email, period. Most people just want the basic features of email: from, cc, bcc, and attachments. Maybe some MIME/rich media. Recently I decided to give Google Inbox, Google's latest app (or Gmail's latest app) a try just to see what all the hype was about. Within about 10 seconds into my experience with Google Inbox [...]
Ok lets see here. Google+'s existence is and has been a fun debate, for sure. Larry Kim and Google+ battled this out on social networks, amongst others last week. It has also been the source of much debate pretty much since it was initially launched. To me, it definitely seems as though Google is permanently embedding Google+ into the [...]
Just wanted to preface this post by saying that this is basically me "thinking out loud" and should definitely not be taken as SEO advice or anything close to factual information. I don't have droves of data to back up what I am saying (I do have some), but I do have a recent experience to share and I've [...]
If there is one term I hate more than anything else, it is networking. Let's think about what exactly networking is. Common example: You run a company and attend an SEO conference to network with like-minded people. You pay $5000 plus flights, room, incidentals to attend this conference in hopes that you will get more business and form relationships [...]
I stumbled upon Conrad Hackett's nifty little Twitter trick tonight, which managed to put a smile on my face and scratch my head for a brief instant :) The tweet plays a bit of a mind trick by asking the user to double click the picture. Upon looking at the "first" photo, it appears to be a white and [...]
Just messing around with Ello tonight and thought I'd share my thoughts on this hip new social network. Note: I do have a few Ello invite codes left so hit me up if you are interested. The on-boarding process is unique with the fact that it is invite only. They are definitely going with the whole scarcity principle by [...]
Just kind of a fun / fake case study here. No technical data to back any I've been kind of playing around for the last few weeks asking myself the question: "How badly can I butcher the spelling of queries in order for Google auto-correct to get it right." Here are some of the worst (or best, depending on [...]