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Experience with development server 7x cheaper than Linode/DO

January 29, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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Preamble As I wrote a few weeks ago, I am currently developing an open-souce ithare::obf library. And apparently, to make sure it works more or less consistently, a Damn Lot(tm) of randomized testing (and preferably under different compilers) is necessary. As a result, last week I found myself in a search for a cheap Linux box […]

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Bot Fighting 202. Time-Based Protection

January 23, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Obfuscating Protocols

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Whenever we detect that the time spent within a piece-of-non-blocking-code, is more than a few seconds – then, either the system is hopelessly swapping, or we're being debugged

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What if we send not just a challenge, but a “challenge which includes some piece of code to be executed on the Client-Side”?

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IXOn.SecurityFraud Prevention

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BDT - Automating Your Application Testing in Behavior-Driven Way

January 18, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny


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Descriptive style takes its roots from the «chain» pattern, in which the methods enclosed in classes return some reference on themselves.

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Business-driven testing or BDT allows non-technical members of any development team a stronger involvement in the development process by allowing them to comprehend test cases and even create their own. 

Filed under: On.ProgrammingTips and TricksOn.DevelopmentDevelopment Processes

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Bot Fighting 201. Part 4. Obfuscating Protocols. Versioning.

January 16, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Obfuscating Protocols

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we can handle several Client versions (each with its own obfuscation) with the very same Server.

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Then, if/when a zero-day bug is encountered in TLS – our obfuscation does provide additional protection even before the attacker can reach the code with that zero-day vulnerability

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