paranoid-sysadmin

Good tool for testing socket connections?

I'm writing a tcp/ip client and I would need a "test server" to be able to test easily. It should listen on a configurable port, show me when a client connects and what the client sent, allow me to manually enter text to send to the client. It should work on Windows. Normally I would have use the simple but powerfull nc.exe (alias "Netc...

How to unit test my application manually on multiple browsers?

My project requires support on multiple browsers, like Firefox 2.0, firefox 3.0, IE 6, IE 7, etc. My problem is I cannot test the application on lower versions of the browsers. I have to move to other system or other machines for the testing. Is there any way to solve this? I cannot even use Virtual Box, since my company won't encourage...

Website hacking - Why it is always possible to do?

Dear web developers, we know that each executable file can be reverse engineered (disassembled, decompiled). No mater how strong security you will implement, anyway if crackers want to, they do crack!!! Just that is a question of time. What about websites? May we say that website can be completely safe from attacks of hackers (we assum...