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Tag Archives: security
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
PHP deobfuscation
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
SMTP innovations for virii
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