spoofing

Spoofing UserAgent in Opera

I'm trying to spoof Opera (under linux) to be an other browser, in this case iPad for some testing purposes. Now I know sites can check which browser is accessing the using for example in PHP $useragent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; and in javascript navigator.userAgent (or navigator.platform). In firefox you can use an addon to easily...

Dealing with SMS Spoofing

Hello, I'm working on a web service that would use an SMS gateway to receive instructions from customers. Since this would be a commercial product I would like to implement a safeguard to protect our system from SMS spoofs. I don't want people impersonating others by spoofing their number. I've noticed that Twitter allows people to tw...

An Efficient way to store table ID in form so user cannot overwrite another table record

Hi, I am creating a website which has user accounts. For each user account, the user can do stuff like update their personal details, write a blog etc. When the user wants to edit a blog, i have the following form (this is a simplied version). <form action="goToThisPage.php" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="blogID" value=...

Spoof or fake location on Android phone

Hi all, I've been trying to get this to work for a few days without success. Basically, I'm writing a small test app to make the phone report it's position as somewhere else using addTestProvider and setTestProviderLocation etc. Basically it looks fine and appears to report its location as having changed, however Google Maps etc. see...

Blocking Spoofed Form Entries

We have a registration form where people can sign up to take surveys for a small compensation. Recently we found a lot of suspect entries. I tracked down a site in Chinese that I translated via google and it was basically a "how to" to sign up for these sorts of sites. I've been working to track down a way to automatically filter off the...

How to change my Fax number caller id

How do i send a fax from my home fax machine but make it appear that it came from another location ie; another fax number? any one know how i can make this happen ...

How reliable is the IP address logged in an Apache access log?

Dear SO, My website is suffering from an apparent bot which GETs a particular URL 5 times within a second, waits exactly 2 minutes, then repeats. The request is coming from the same IP address each time, and I have not observed any malicious payload, so I'm undecided on whether it is some form of spam bot. The User-Agent claims to be IE...