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VeriSign warns of major social networking threat
“Firm uncovers black market trading in millions of compromised accounts… …Prices for the accounts depend on how many contacts or friends the user has on the site, and range from $25 (£16.25) per 1,000 accounts with 10 contacts or fewer to $45 (£29) for over 10 contacts, said iDefense.” (Courtesy of v3.co.uk)
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Researchers crack Palm webOS with a text message
“Researchers have managed to crack Palm’s webOS with a simple text message. The team at Intrepidus Group worked on a Palm Pre running the 1.3.5. version of the webOS operating system, and found it open to many common vulnerabilities due to its inherent design… …The team said that the SMS system did not perform input/output…
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Clone Objects in .Net using Reflections
Clone or Duplicate Objects using .Net Reflections library: .Net, as well as many other object oriented languages, have strong distinctions between value types and reference types. Objects in .Net, which all inherit the same base object class are reference types. Some reference types, such as with collections or datatables, contain methods which easily allow you…
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CSV to DataTable
Converting Microsoft Excel CSV to .Net DataTable: After casually browsing the net for some good examples, everything I came across was too bulky or over-kill for what I needed this code for, so I decided to write my own. The following code snippet is tested and works with .Net 2.0 or later. Please note “handleError()”…
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Uniform distribution
Impossible? Puzzle: This one is (supposedly) from a job interview for Google: You’re being streamed an array of numbers. Every second you receive the next cell in the array. The array is finite but you don’t know when it ends or what’s it total length. Your job is to randomly pick one of the numbers…
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