Tag Archives: security

My new password

Posted on 4 March 2014 by stuff writer

I’m changing all my passwords to asterisks: ******** Now, when I enter my password, I can see what I’m typing.

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Not your regular bot driven UDP flood

Posted on 26 April 2013 by stuff writer

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 →

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The core is secure

Posted on 24 August 2011 by stuff writer

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 →

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Unicast flooding meets promiscuous routing

Posted on 29 June 2011 by stuff writer

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 →

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WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!

Posted on 8 June 2011 by stuff writer

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 →

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PHP deobfuscation

Posted on 21 May 2011 by stuff writer

One of the things that you see with depressing regularity when hosting crummy PHP scripts for others is this: eval&28;base64_decode&28;’aWYgKCFlbXB0eSgkX1JFUVVFU1RbInRoZW What’s that? Well it says to decode that gobbledegook into a binary stream (the base64_decode part), and then interpret whatever … Continue reading →

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SMTP innovations for virii

Posted on 17 November 2010 by stuff writer

It took a long time, but finally an email-borne virus has bypassed the MX records for a domain, where there is an anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-mail scanner, and delivered itself directly to the target server. This was a very obvious … Continue reading →

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