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How do I start security testing?

Monday, May 14, 2012

There are many testers and hacking aspirants who write to me seeking guidance to learn security testing / hacking. I prepared a list to send for everyone. Then I thought of publishing the same on my blog so that I just give out my blog post URL and then can see it here. Even it [...]

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Result announcement for the awesome 18 testing challenges

Monday, April 16, 2012

Before a month I had initiated a contest for testers where, I talked about 18 contexts and wanted people to give different perspective of what do they think. I was not expecting great number but, out of my personal interest and with personal expenses I published this contest. Most of the participants are known to [...]

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I disagree with Jakob Nielsen’s STOP password masking article

Thursday, February 2, 2012

While I refer to http://useit.com/ for usability related articles and I do recommend to many testers as well. However, I filter out which doesn’t make sense to me rather than following something blindly. Darren McMillan, a tester and my friend posted a tweet with the following URL http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html and after reading it, I felt most [...]

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Guest Blog Post: Web Services Attacks

Monday, January 2, 2012

What is a Web Service? A web service is any software that is used for communication over a network. One could imagine a web service as any function that performs a specific operation.Web service may or may not include input parameters and may or may not return output parameters. Input / Output parameters can be [...]

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Do you really understand Usability?

Monday, December 5, 2011

Usability is not a quick meal that could be prepared. Whenever someone talks about some thing in Usability, I usually do not give my opinion because the topic requires a lot of thought process to go behind before providing the conclusion and remember that conclusions might change tomorrow because it is always better factor that [...]

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