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contextis.co.uk

Company blog · contextis.co.uk/blogsecurity

contextis.co.uk is the company blog at contextis.co.uk, writing about security. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Hacking Canon Pixma Printers – Doomed Encryption”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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14mentions?
13HN people?
2011–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this security research blog for write-ups such as a Canon printer decryption and hack, a Windows exploit mitigation bypass, and risks from opening PowerPoint files.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hacking Canon Pixma Printers – Doomed Encryption
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. coldpie · 2014-09-15Recommends
    The linked-through blog article describing the decryption process was interesting: http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixm... What I especially liked is that this was literally one of the challenges from the Matasano crypto challenges: http://cryptopals.com/sets/1/challenges/6/ It's fun when theory meets practice.

    Comment linking /resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-printers-doomed-encryption/

    on “Canon printer hacked to run Doom”
  2. leetreveil · 2013-08-07

    Submitted Pixel-perfect timing attacks with HTML5 as a story · 195 points

    HN discussion
  3. j_s · 2013-10-10
    a new “exploitation technique” in Windows, which will allow it to develop defenses against an entire class of attacks - the OP new mitigation bypass technique - http://www.contextis.co.uk/news/congratulations-james-forsha... - http://blogs.technet.com/b/bluehat/archive/2013/10/08/congra...

    Comment linking /news/congratulations-james-forshaw/

    on “Microsoft pays $100K bounty to hacker”
  4. TomAnthony · 2014-07-04

    Submitted Hacking into Internet-Connected Light Bulbs as a story · 96 points

    HN discussion
  5. wglb · 2014-10-26
    Pretty good plan, but then there is this: http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/comma-separated-vu...

    Comment linking /resources/blog/comma-separated-vulnerabilities/

    on “PSA: Don’t Open Random PowerPoint Presentations from Strangers”
  6. marshray · 2012-04-25

    Submitted Cloud providers found to be leaking data cross-customer via dirty disks as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  7. pascal_cuoq · 2015-01-29

    Submitted Glibc Adventures: The Forgotten Chunks [pdf] as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  8. captincaveman · 2014-10-29

    Submitted RDP Replay as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  9. r4um · 2014-09-15

    Submitted Hacking Canon Pixma Printers – Doomed Encryption as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. casca · 2013-08-23

    Submitted Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks with HTML5 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. urbxy · 2015-01-28

    Submitted Glibc adventures – the forgotten chunks [pdf] as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. pdjstone · 2014-07-04

    Submitted Hacking into Internet Connected Light Bulbs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. ssclafani · 2011-05-10

    Submitted Multiple Serious Security Issues Found in WebGL as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. pdjstone · 2012-03-13

    Submitted Framesniffing attack against SharePoint and LinkedIn as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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