Misc development
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Electronic payment systems have existed on the Internet for a long time, and some bugs in them are twenty years old. We've found critical vulnerabilities allowing us to steal money and drive up the balance. Today we will analyze typical implementations of payment processing and related security issues.
In the previous post Filling up NTFS partition forever without admin privileges I described the method to fill all free space on an NTFS partition without administrator privileges and without creating any large suspicious files. However, "forever" in the title was too strong a word, so I continued to search for solutions to cleanup the clogged $Secure file. Finally, I found this can be done quite simply: you need to use the standard Windows CHKDSK utility! I would've never thought that it had such a feature. Apparently, it was added in around 2009 in the KB919241 update.
NTFS is an advanced file system that is one of the main parts of all modern Windows operating system versions. This file system supports logging, it has the ability to recover data, advanced security, file streams and many other features. However, sometimes with rich features you get problems that were absent in older file systems like FAT32.
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Probably many people know, that Windows 98 and later includes Windows script host (WSH) by default, which allows to run VBScript and JScript code, but few ones used it at least once. In this article I am going to show you useful WSH snippets and script examples and convince you that this feature is really worthwhile. I will also tell you about very useful and cool WSH features, which are almost unknown, and therefore it is not easy to find information about them on the Internet.
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