The Java Hacker – Peter Jaric's Blog
There once was a simple Firefox plugin that added a Restart option to the File menu, but at some point it stopped working. Today I discovered that there is a built-in restart option. Just go to about:profiles and there it […]
A while back, Gregoire Gilbert and Johannes Ridderstedt (then Lundberg) of the Uppsala Tech community asked me if I could write an article about bug bounty hunting for their upcoming magazine The Uppdate. Its first issue is now available at […]
This is a report about Øredev 2015 that I posted on my employer’s intranet. Due to the huge demand I asked if I could publish it on the internet. Unfortunately it is available in Swedish only. I våras råkade jag […]
Finally we have a winner! But first, some background. One month ago, on the 29th of August, I announced the JavaScript Misdirection Contest: There is a programming contest called The Underhanded C Contest. In their own words, it is “an […]
I find it quite fun to look for vulnerabilities in websites and then report them (to hopefully gain a bug bounty or at least a place on a Hall of Fame list). One place to find interesting stuff is in […]
A little while ago I made a bookmarklet called the Sea Surfer for detecting and exploting CSRF vulnerabilities. Since then I have got some feedback from Ashar Javed which has prompted me to create a slightly improved version. Sea Surfer […]
I often draw something when I attend meetings at work. It helps me concentrate and it’s fun. I’ll upload some of these drawings here. Here’s the first one:
The company Citerus held a programming competition at the JFokus 2011 developer conference. I was one of the more than 100 contestants. Read more about it at http://www.citerus.se/post/vinnare (in Swedish). I have included both the winning solution from Carin Lidberg […]
When I was going to open a Spotify link in Google Chrome and the browser asked me if I wanted to open it or not, I checked the “Remember my decision” check box and then clicked “Do not open”, by […]
In newer versions of Ubuntu (and Linuxes) xscreensaver has been replaced with gnome-screensaver. The same screensavers are supported (with some exceptions, I guess), but there is one thing that is lacking: per-screensaver configuration. The author of gnome-screensaver thinks that this […]