Core Security: Fun with my web logs
Just a little noodling around, followed by fun facts:
HacBook:~ wesley$ nslookup coresecurity.com
Server: 10.0.0.1
Address: 10.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: coresecurity.com
Address: 208.253.45.70
HacBook:~ wesley$ whois 208.253.45.70
MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business UUNET1996B (NET-208-192-0-0-1)
208.192.0.0 – 208.255.255.255
CORE SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES UU-208-253-45-64-D9 (NET-208-253-45-64-1)
208.253.45.64 – 208.253.45.127
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2009-06-28 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN’s WHOIS database.
HacBook:~ wesley$ grep 208.253.45 *.log > [...]
Core Security Apologizes, “Not Cool Enough For Core 2009″ gathering proposed
This afternoon I received a very polite call from Kim Legelis, the vice-president of marketing at Core Security. She and I talked for some time about the problems I spoke about in yesterday’s post, and how changes need to be made to the process they use to invite people to their “cool kids” party at [...]
Perl hacking is dead (lol)
Script kiddie forum pic of the day:
Naughty avatar censored, but I kept the language in case you want to try and make any sense of this chunk of thread. PsyKon-X’s contribution is particularly hard to read through:
Perl does indeed work my friend but the coders in which the perl hack was designed for are being [...]
Switching themes
This morning, I had the urge to change the look of the site. I have changed the theme of the site (for the better, I think), and I’ve put some of my static pages under the control of WordPress so that I can manage them from its control panel. Things might be broken for a [...]
Download Stealing the Network’s “The Final Chapter” for free until May 6
If you read my review of Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition, then you’d know that the only real additional content in the new edition is a new chapter by Ryan Russell: “The Final Chapter”. I liked Ryan’s conclusion to the story, but I doubt that many people who already own the other [...]
Skimmers on ATM Machines
Lately, I’ve really enjoyed having The Consumerist in my RSS reader. There’s always a lot of great stories about companies screwing over people, people getting in contact with the right people to straighten things out, and nice tips and tricks for when it happens to you. It’s one of my favorite non-security-related blogs in my reader, [...]
Santa Claus is Hacking to Town Challenge Results
Over at the excellent ethicalhacker.net site, the results of the Santa Claus is Hacking to Town Skillz Challenge have been posted:
Santa Claus is Hacking to Town – Answers and Winners
These challenges are a lot of fun, and educational as well. Ed Skoudis puts a lot of effort into writing and judging them. There’s a whole archive [...]
Poking around my Google search referrals
Every night, Analog generates a summary of this site’s logs from the past seven days, and when I bother to check it, it’s an entertaining read. My favorite part is the “Search Query Report”, which scrapes through my logs, pulling out the search terms people are using on Google (and other search engines) to get [...]
Pretending to be a Printer with Netcat
My wife has discovered just how much money she can save shopping for our groceries using all of the coupons she has found online. There are entire communities of people who follow and report on the deals you can find. The only problem for her has been that many of the coupons she has found [...]
Yousif Yalda Part 2: Script Kiddies in the Mist
…in which, our intrepid security geek finds out that there is a $400 bounty on his head.
Posts like this don’t have much technical content, but they’re fun, and the last one has been a wildly popular part of the site. While you’re laughing your butt off, I hope you take away the real message here: [...]