HOW TOShorten URLs from the Command Line with Python BY ALEX LONG  12/05/2011 7:08 PM Shortening URLs has become a necessity in this age of Twitter and limited-character status updates. It not only allows us to cram more words into our oh-so-important Twitter statuses, but...

COMMUNITY BYTECoding a Web-Based Password Cracker in Python Welcome to another Community Byte announcement! In the past two sessions, we have coded an IRC bot in Python capable of issuing commands. Since it can issue commands and most of you are new to programming, that project will stay...

HOW TOHow Hackers Steal Your Internet & How to Defend Against It I have had a lot of people ask me, "How does my neighbor keep getting into my wireless?!". Chances are, these people are all using WEP, a deprecated wireless encryption protocol. Either that, or you are using one weak WPA...

HACK LIKE A PROHow to Crack Passwords, Part 1 (Principles & Technologies) Welcome back, my neophyte hackers! I have already done a few tutorials on password cracking, including ones for Linux and Windows, WEP and WPA2, and even online passwords using THC...