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Tag Archives: security
Ignoring out-of-band network policy systems with iptables
I’ve been working on parental controls using an out-of-band policy engine. It is easy to subvert, if you care to, since the controls it implements are very light, and it is not actually part of the conversation between you and … Continue reading
Man in the mailbox fraud (MITMB) HOWTO
This has come up twice, so it’s time to tell the world how it’s done. Basically, if someone has control of your mailbox (e-mail address and password), then you’re going to lose your money: someone (not you, and not your … Continue reading
Invasion of the evil androids
Google says you are too stupid to rule your own life. They say this by their Android phone operating system, in which they do not give you, the owner and operator of the device, root permissions. This means: You cannot … Continue reading
Search-engine assisted fraud HOWTO
As many of the readers of this fine site are career criminals, it seems good to explain a new and popular procurement fraud scam. Here’s a piccie to muddy the waters, followed by the blow-by-blow account, in which the numbers … Continue reading
Cloudflare doesn’t help your DDOS
Ever since CloudFlare helped out Spamhaus with their big deal big DNS reflection DDOS attack, conventional wisdom has said that if you are faced with a DDOS attack, you should give CloudFlare a shot. By all means, give it a … Continue reading
My new password
I’m changing all my passwords to asterisks: ******** Now, when I enter my password, I can see what I’m typing.
Not your regular bot driven UDP flood
After weeks of battling Joomla/JCE sites that insist on running evil code and spewing denial of service traffic, we had a machine today sending UDP floods. This, it turns out, is not a hacked machine sending spews of botnet traffic … Continue reading
The core is secure
In the documentation for that wonderful content management software, joomla, you can read the following statement: Although the Joomla! core is secure when configured correctly, third party extensions come in all flavors of age and quality. Unless you absolutely trust … Continue reading
Unicast flooding meets promiscuous routing
To make a disaster, you need a perfect storm of mistakes. A single mistake is insufficient, but a stack of sub-obtimal configuration choices stacked together will give you rampant failure and poor network quality. For today’s mistake we have massive … Continue reading
WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!
If you use ssh for a while, you are sure to get this message sooner or later: WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!. This means more or less what it says – the machine formerly known as somemachine suddenly smells … Continue reading
