Monthly Archives: February 2011

Windows Hosts File Monitor

Posted on 28th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

Earlier I came across a tweet by @bartblaze that mentioned a new malware attack technique called “boy in the browser“. “Once executed on the victim’s machine the exploit code makes persistent changes [...]. The exploit code is then removed from … Continue reading →

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My Connect 4 AI Player – Source Code

Posted on 17th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

I’ve decided to release the Java source code for an artificial intelligence player I wrote for the game Connect 4. I entered the player into a British Computer Society competition in June 2009 and won one of the two first … Continue reading →

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Regular expression denial of service attack

Posted on 8th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

Whilst doing some research for my final year university project on regular expression visualisation I came across an article about the performance of regular expression matching that caught my interest. In some implementations the time taken to detect whether a … Continue reading →

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Inject jQuery into any web page

Posted on 6th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

Now and then I come across a website that could be made easier to use with a couple of lines of jQuery – for example a web mail application with check boxes next to every message but no “select all” … Continue reading →

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Writing to the FireBug console from Flash (and PHP)

Posted on 6th February, 2011 by Nick Bloor

I was recently tasked with modifying the behaviour of a ready-made Flash component and for convenience I wanted to interact with the Flash component within FireFox and view live debug output in the FireBug console. It turns out to be … Continue reading →

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