Archive for April, 2008

Reading Rainbow: Episode 3

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Welcome back boys and girls,

I have some great articles for you this week.

Political Lobbying,.. the hacker way – An XSS vulnerability in Obama’s website was exploited to redirect visitors to Clinton’s website. Not the most difficult hack of the year by far, but still entertaining.

Hackers For Hire – News Corp. has been accused of hiring a hacker to do monetary damage to Dish Network Corp.

Interview with Matt Mullenweg – Matt Mullenweg gives his views on the future of WordPress as well as the internet social scene. (The video has alot of background noise, but is worth a watch)

Cyber-warfare – Cyber security students entered in the NSA’s competition must defend their networks from the NSA’s top hackers.

How green is green? – Is that printer you just bought “green enough” or was it another marketing scam?

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The return of the Tv-Links

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

For all those of you out there who morned with me over the loss of tv-links.co.uk, we can now rejoice in its return. Perhaps this isn’t new-news, but it’s news to me and perhaps some of my readers.

Not only is tv-links back, but with new functionality. They’ve added a “search” so that you don’t have to scroll through. (Though ctrl-f always worked for me.)

www.tv-links.cc

Enjoy,

Samurai

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Multi-language password cracking libraries

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

After creating customized password cracking apps for some time, I have finally grown tired of using different alogirthms with no real flexability in them so I have decided to create a library to do this for me. Since I work in a few languages, I will be building these in: Java, C++, Python, and PHP.

The library itself will be a collection of functions used to generate passwords and hashes to be used in cracking or brute forcing. For passwords the library will provide functionality for using dictionary files and generating brute force lists of minimum length n to maximum length m for ASCII x through y. The hashes will include md5 and sha1 built in and I plan to allow custom algorithms to be built for it as a plugin or passed in function, however; that is still in the planing stages.

As soon as I set it up, I will make daily builds available and post that link under this sub-category along with updates. Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

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Reading Raingbow: Episode 2

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately and have a few great articles for this week. I’ve been reading alot into VoIP and VoIP security so expect a post about that soon.

Vista is annoying… no, really – Turns out the UAC ( User Account Control ) feature of Vista was design purposely to annoy us.

Castle Wars – Ok, I’m not really a gamer, but this game just works for me. It’s akin to Magic: The gathering, if anyone else played that.

Google, Gmail, and Snooping – Here we see more talk about the wondrous privacy issues google brings up. Big Brother? Perhaps…

ActiveX Control found to be source of Windows 0-day – Windows Server 2003 and 2008, XP, and Vista are all affected by this which allows malicious code to be run as LocalSystem giving the exploit code a high level of privileges.

That’s it for this week. I’m working on an article on some fun with VoIP so look for that soon-ish. Also, I’ll be posting about a new project I’m going to be starting. Keep tuned in.

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Reading Rainbow: Episode 1

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Welcome to the Reading Rainbow. Here I plan on making a weekly post of what I’ve been reading and short commentaries on some of the articles.

For those of you too young to get the joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j8EiWIVZs , yes, I actually watched that show as a kid.

This weeks reading:

Security Risk Management – A different paradigm for a risk management model. Interesting read but not a whole lot of technical specifics.

Windows Still Phone’s Home – Jaqui Greenlees pops open a windows .DLL and finds some interesting ‘features’.

Your Next Text Message Could Be From the FCC – The FCC are looking to use text messaging as an alert system for national trouble, Amber alerts, and weather updates.

Sorry this weeks was short, I want to release on Sundays and I just set up wordpress today. Next week’s will be longer.

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SamuraiNet Blog

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

So I’ve talked about writing a blogging engine for ages, but laziness got the better of me. So here I have now installed wordpress.

I’m going to try and post atleast once a week on something computer related, security related, or programming related as well as probably have randomly added posts about whatever I feel like.

Enjoy,

-Samurai

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