Monthly Archives: October 2010

CFSocketSetAddress returns error ‘-1′

Posted on by Siavash

Just got this error while debugging an iPhone application. It seemed to be caused from leaving an application at a certain point. I really love the error handling here though.”Try rebooting your device and/or Macintosh” If this is truly caused because of a CFSocketSetAddress error, I believe it should be more graceful than this. Maybe [...]

Penetration Testing

Posted on by Siavash

Penetration testing is a way of simulating an attack from a malicious source. A hacker has full knowledge of the system being attacked and can leverage this for simulation. The goal of a white-box penetration test is to simulate a malicious insider who has some knowledge and possibly basic credentials to the target system. A [...]