I was doing some troubleshooting recently trying to fix some issues reported in the Captcha of a registration system. The Captcha wasn’t always properly displaying and wouldn’t recognize valid code entries intermittently. After tracing some of the PHP to find just how the Captcha’s were being generated and managed, I found my way to the[...]
Odd bugs and the case of an aging database
August 29th, 2010 by samuraiThoughts on IPv6 Firewalling
August 9th, 2010 by CarbonLifeFormIt is the on-coming storm. We’ve all heard about it; it’s big, scary, and new. Public IP addresses for all and tearing down those NAT-PT barriers excites and worries many. IPv6 is coming but it’s not as frightening as it’s made out to be; most concepts from IPv4 can be applied directly to it’s younger[...]
Defcon 18 – photos and followup
August 2nd, 2010 by samuraiAnother year, another Defcon has passed. This year I went with CarbonLifeForm (who helped out with this post) and we attended talks, mingled with fellow enthusiasts, spread the psych0tik word, and enjoyed general debauchery. I was asked to take some photos for some friends who couldn’t attend this year, so I’ve pulled those together with[...]
The psych0tik network presents: proxyElite
July 2nd, 2010 by adminAfter nearly 3 years of downtime, psych0tik is happy to bring you the new and improved proxyElite! We’ve spent the last few months completely rewriting the core code and redesigning the database to be more stable and reliable. Thusfar, we’ve been very happy with the results. The proxyElite web application itself is definitely in an[...]
psych0tik IRC downtime: resolved!
June 17th, 2010 by adminThe psych0tik IRC is again available on the storm.psych0tik.net domain. Additionally, we’ve set-up irc.psych0tik.net (also port 6697, ssl required) as a CNAME to point to storm, allowing you to use either to connect to our IRC. We’ve made changes to our DNS infrastructure to ensure in the future any downtime will be minimized, by switching[...]
psych0tik IRC downtime and updates
June 14th, 2010 by adminAs you may have noticed, the pyshc0tik IRC’s primary domain name no longer points to the correct IP address. On May 29th a reboot of Samurai’s router caused a new dynamic IP to be assigned and resulted in the old DNS zone to going stale. We’ve had some issues with getting our DNS entries updated[...]
Preserving partitions when adding datastores to ESXi
April 15th, 2010 by samuraiI was recently building out a new ESXi box and bought a Seagate Barracuda 1.5Tb SATA 2 drive to use as the datastore as well as to backup some data from a laptop who’s hard drive was acting up. The hard drive was/is making all sorts of bad sounds, so I wanted to get the[...]
ESXi 4.0 – Management Methods
March 21st, 2010 by samuraiBe it at work or at home, I spend a lot of time in virtual environments consisting mostly of ESXi (3.5 and 4.0.) As part of the psych0tic network I run storm.psych0tik.net, an ESXi 4.0 box that’s currently running our IRC as well as the psych0tik GSProxy. Managing these environments is a task in itself, and I’ve found that no one tool gives me all of the functionality that I need. In this post, I go through some free methods I use to manage my ESXi 4.0 host and guests.
psych0tik releases GoogleSharing proxy
February 7th, 2010 by adminA few weeks ago we released a post on staying anonymous online through the use of various configuration changes and Firefox add-ons. One of the Firefox add-ons mentioned was the GoogleSharing proxy add-on. This allows Firefox to reroute unauthenticated requests to Google services through a community proxy that hides your identity while you browse the[...]
CSI releases first in a new series of whitepapers
February 3rd, 2010 by samuraiThe Cyber Secure Institute (CSI), a group looking to raise awareness about cyber security, has released it’s first whitepaper in a new series about cyberwar. This whitepaper, written by retired USAF General Eugene Habiger, addresses the need for a new approach towards viewing cyberwar. Gen. Habiger goes on to validate his claims with real-world examples,[...]