Hacking an ATM

Apparently an enterprising individual found that some ATMs in use still had the default administrator PINs set. He used Google to find the PINS and used it in to steal money from ATMs.

"In the past, Google queries have been used to find security flaws in Web-facing applications, default passwords in Oracle databases and even live malware samples seeded on forums and other malicious sites"

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perl.com: Using Ajax from Perl

Using Ajax from Perl by Dominic Mitchell

If you're even remotely connected to web development, you can't have failed to have heard of Ajax at some point in the last year. It probably sounded like the latest buzzword and was one of those things you stuck on the 'must read up on later' pile. While it's definitely a buzzword, it's also quite a useful one.

Found this very useful article on perl.com. I've recently added some asynchronous JavaScript calls to my Perl code. The feedback from users has been positive.