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Cloning ePassports - Bypassing Airport Security

The government plans to use ePassports at Immigration and Border Control. The information is electronically read from the Passport and displayed to a Border Control Officer or used by an automated setup. THC has discovered weaknesses in the system to (by)pass the security checks. The detection of fake passport chips does not work. Test setups do not raise alerts when a modified chip is used. This enables an attacker to create a Passport with an altered Picture, Name, DoB, Nationality and other credentials

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Rapid application development (RAD) - Part 1

In recent months I have been asked questions various times regarding development methodologies for web 2.0 applications. The way I have become accustomed to work in the current web climate is to use what is known as rapid application development or RAD for short. RAD is an application development technique that incorporates the use of prototypes, iterative customisation, and CASE Tools.

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Latest Facebook Social Virus - codecsetup.exe - Google links

There is currently a new undetected facebook spam virus spreading around with the use of spoofing a google url and mimicking the youtube video sharing site.

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Welcome to The Blog of an Egyptian Songbird

I am a random consequence of intense unpredictable events. Here happens to be a list of my findings…! So why egyptian songbird? well it all comes from my name Shadi Almosri, which is translated from arabic, Shadi is a songbird and Almosri or “Al-masri” is The Egyptian. Alas i do not follow my namesake and i am neither Egyptian nor a songbird!!

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Ten Questions about Google Chrome

Four years ago, I blogged about rumors that Google was working on a Web browser. I found them intriguing, as anyone would, but no such browser ever appeared, and Google became an enthusiastic Firefox booster. The blogosphere pretty much stopped pondering the possibility of a Google browser, and so did I. But now all has changed...