non-latin TLD to be issued
Top-level domains are taking a new turn today with ICANN announcing the new TLDs using non-Latin characters. For example Egypt: مصر (Egypt). It will be interesting to see how this will be used. I wouldn't know where to begin typing مصر on my keyboard so I would have to rely on links to get me to some sites. As we know clicking links blindly on the internet is always a great idea, especially in emails. for the announcement click here ;-) (http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05may10-en.htm).
Cheers
Mark
Learn about web app hacking and defense
Tor sent in a link to a Google code page on Web Security. This page provides links to several good web app pen testing and defense resources. The most intriguing of which is the Jarlsberg codelab. Essentially Jarlsberg is a buggy web app that you can hack to learn web app pen testing and defense.
From the Jarlsberg introduction page:
"This codelab is built around Jarlsberg /yärlz'·bərg/, a small, cheesy web application that allows its users to publish snippets of text and store assorted files. "Unfortunately," Jarlsberg has multiple security bugs ranging from cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, to information disclosure, denial of service, and remote code execution. The goal of this codelab is to guide you through discovering some of these bugs and learning ways to fix them both in Jarlsberg and in general. "
Sounds like fun.
-- Rick Wanner - rwanner at isc dot sans dot org
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