Wilsons Writings

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A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator

  • How To DDOS A Cellphone, or How To Be A Complete Douchebag

    Want to know how to DDOS someone's cellphone in a matter of minutes? Just post their number to Twitter and have 4 million followers. Justin Bieber, …

    8/16/2010

  • BlackHat 2010 Presentations & Materials

    Here's a complete list of all of the materials from BlackHat that are now online. …

    8/3/2010

  • DefCon 18 Day 2

    Day 2 of DefCon 18 has started with a... well, a wait. The lines for tracks are INSANE. Lots of angry, sweaty nerds lamenting decisions to attend …

    8/2/2010

  • DefCon 18 Day 1

    Stay tuned to this post for DefCon 18 notes. Lots and lots of madness going on today... pure nerd insanity. Some shirt photos by request: …

    7/30/2010

  • BlackHat Briefings 2010: Day 2 LiveBlog

    Day 2 is at hand. Today will be a short day - 1/2 at Blackhat and the other 1/2 at DefCon coordinating things for this weekend. Stay Tuned! KeyNote: …

    7/29/2010

The Daily WTF

  • Error'd: CAPTCHA'd

    What's that, you say? We should have an entire Error'd dedicated to CAPTCHA images? Sure, why not! Alex van Herwijnen spotted this interesting …

    9/3/2010

  • Tales from the Interview: The Best, The TDWTF Interview, and The Storm-out

    The Best (from Chris) A while back, I helped interview for a programmer position on the web team. After talking to a number of candidates, we finally …

    9/2/2010

  • CodeSOD: Accounting for Complexity

    "I was recently assigned to work on a team that maintains a fairly large product," writes Aaron, "at first, I was a bit overwhelmed by …

    9/1/2010

  • Fast Fix

    "Do you think it's wise to have consultants running our IT department?" Holger asked. It was an honest question, worded as diplomatically …

    8/31/2010

  • CodeSOD: Command 696

    Think of all those old applications you’ve had to maintain. You know the type: the ones written by long-forgotten developers in long-lost …

    8/30/2010