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Digg Source Code has a "Secret Message"

Recently I came to know about this, the homepage of Digg contains a "Secret Message" . This secret message is in the source code of the Home Page of the website in the form of a comment at the very bottom .After analyzing the code it seems that some physics-lover has worked on the code of the website.The message is ::: This line is a comment and thus not visible on the website but can easily be seen in the source code of the homepage.These are not just random numbers but are a result of very smart physics work done at the Digg labs. What is the significance of these numbers ? Take a guess (Hint :: Relate these numbers to physics)... OK,here is the answer..... 2.01355321270u :: This is the atomic mass of the hydrogen isotope known as D euterium. 137.03599911 :: This is a complicated one and really a geek in physics can figure this out.This is I nverse of the Sommerfield fine-structure constant. 6.6742x10-11m3kg-1s-2 ::The last two numbers are the same.This one is v...

Clickjacking "Browser Exploit"

Clickjacking is a term used by two security experts Robert “RSnake” Hansen and Jeremiah Grossman to define a new major web attack that could potentially affect millions of web users.This threat exploits the bug that is present in "One of the Adobe products" but Jeremiah and Robert believe that the clickjacking flaw ultimately lies in the way that Internet browsers are designed.According to Grossman "If I control what you click on, how much bad can I do? It turns out you can do a number of really, really bad things." What makes the attack noteworthy is that this attack is compatible with all browsers and their all versions be it Firefox,IE,Opera,Safari or any other browser.Jeremiah and Robert were going to demonstrate this attack on Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) in New York City this week but on Adobe's request they postponed their demonstration so that the Adobe can contact all web browser vendors and can release a patch for this exploit....

Great Hackers

The 414s The 414s were a gang of six teenagers named after their Milwaukee, Wisconsin area code, who broke into dozens of computer systems throughout the United States and Canada in 1983.Their exploits included Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Security Pacific Bank.The incident appeared as the cover storyof Newsweek with the title Beware: Hackers at play,possibly the first mass-media use of the term hacker in the context of computersecurity. As a result, the U.S. House of Representatives held hearings on computer security and passed several laws. Mark Abene Mark Abene (also known as Phiber Optik ) inspired thousands of teenagers around the country to "study" the internal workings of the United States phone system. One of the founders of the Masters of Deception group. Dark Avenger Dark Avenger is the pseudonym of a Bulgarian virus writer who invented polymorphic code in 1992 as a means to circumvent the type of pattern recognition used by Anti...