GhostExodus Pleads Guilty
Today, the US Attorney’s Office announced that Jesse “GhostExodus” McGraw, has entered a guilty plea on two charges of transmitting a malicious code. Jesse had compromised more than 14 computers at the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas, where he worked as a night-shift security guard. This included the system running the HMI (Human Machine Interface) [...]
Skiddies hacking sites in my name
I noticed a realty website in my referrals today, so I checked it out to see why they’d be linking here. Here’s what I found:
For those of you who are new here: This is obviously not how I roll. Not only is it not something I would do (protip: don’t do pentesting for free), but [...]
Slides for CSE4243 GhostExodus lecture
Tommorow morning, I will be giving a lecture to the CS4243/6243 Information and Computer Security class at Mississippi State University. It will cover the events that led up to, and followed from, the arrest of Jesse “GhostExodus” McGraw on charges of installing malicious code onto hospital computer systems, including a system that was the HMI [...]
GhostExodus indicted for control system incident
Just found out via the Dallas Observer’s blog that Jesse “GhostExodus” McGraw has been indicted by a federal grand jury, and has been charged with two counts of “transmitting a malicious code”, in reference to the malicious code he allegedly installed on computer systems at a hospital in the Dallas area:
Hacked! Dallas Federal Grand Jury [...]
US Cyber Challenge: Positive Impact
Poking around on various “hacker” forums, this sort of thing is a common sight:
If I had the stamina and will to maintain a “skiddie clown quote of the day” for any length of time, this would be a prime candidate. Especially this part:
im sick of being hacked ive done nothing wrong expect steal about 200 [...]
GhostExodus, the ETA, and a Control Systems Incident at Carrell Clinic (part 3)
Previous parts (Pre-requisite information. There will be a pop quiz at the end.):
Part 1 – Definitely read the criminal complaint.
Part 2 – Watch some videos
In this post I will be displaying and discussing some screenshots that Jesse “GhostExodus” McGraw posted online. These screenshots were taken on the PC controlling Carrell Clinic’s HVAC system, uploaded to [...]
GhostExodus, the ETA, and a Control-Systems Incident at Carrell Clinic (Part 2)
If you haven’t read Part 1 of this story, then you really ought to take a look at it first. It serves as a good overview, and the criminal complaint filed by the FBI is a good read.
Yesterday afternoon was GhostExodus’ detention hearing. I’m not very familiar with the process one goes through after being [...]
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 [...]
Yousif Yalda’s friend, Mark gives me a call
Yousif called me several times after the first post about him, however, after a while he gave up and delegated the late-night calls to his friend Mark. In response to a recent post, Mark gave me a call at about 2AM last night. My wife and I were up watching DVDs of Battlestar Galactica, so [...]
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: [...]