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The psych0tik network presents: proxyElite

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

After 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 infantile state as far as development and design, but we wanted to bring you usable proxy results sooner rather than later.

Features of the new proxyElite include:

  • Dynamically updated proxy databases – new proxies are loaded automatically
  • Multiple methods for verifying proxy’s usability – to improve accuracy
  • A proxy detector tool – to help determine how noticeable the proxy you are using is
  • Extensible design – more modules for growing and updating proxy lists are easily added (and some are already in development)

While we’ve done a fair amount of testing on our development server to make sure this code is production-ready, it is still beta code. If you see something that looks broken, wrong, or otherwise out of place – please let us know!

You can check out the new site, at the old address: http://proxyElite.net

~psych0tik staff

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psych0tik IRC downtime: resolved!

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

The 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 to a more easily maintainable solution: dns.he.net. As a result of this change, we’ve also been able to update our zone so that the psych0tik GoogleSharing proxy has it’s own alias: gsproxy.psych0tik.net.

Thanks for bearing with us during this transition.

~psych0tik staff

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psych0tik IRC downtime and updates

Monday, June 14th, 2010

As 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 and are working to find a more stable solution, but in the meantime you should still be able to access the IRC via the temporary backup domain: rogue.samurainet.info. The IRC is still on port 6697 and requires SSL.

In addition to our DNS issues, you may also have noticed subtle changes in the blog’s organization. We’ve restructured the menu, removing all the old SamuraiNet Archive sub-categories, to make room for psych0tik categories. Some of the psych0tik posts have moved to newly created categories and all posts have been re-tagged to be more searchable. Samurai has also been kind enough to go through and update a few of his posts in the archive, either correcting known issues or noting dead projects. We’re hoping that these changes to the blog will make it easier to find what you’re looking for.

One of the changes we haven’t been able to implement on the blog is getting a custom psych0tik theme. While we will eventually get to this item, it’s definitely not a high priority on our to-do lists. If you’d like to donate some effort and create a psych0tik theme for WordPress, leave a comment below with your email address and we’ll get in touch with you. For your effort’s we’ll offer you a link on our “prestigious” affiliates category.

The proxyElite project is undergoing some final alpha testing (and a few last minute additions/tweaks) before we release it for public beta. We’ve revived the functionality of the previous version of this project and added some new features and techniques. Keep an eye on the blog for the release post in the next few weeks.

Finally, we still don’t have a WWW set up yet. We’ve hit a few small snafus and have been too busy to sort out what should be simple issues, until recently. We’re back on a roll and will hopefully have our main site up soon.

~psych0tik staff

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Presenting the psych0tik network…. sort of

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

And so it begins. We’d like to present to you the beginning of the psych0tik network, a community of security conscious computer experimenters. We say the “beginning” of psych0tik as this isn’t a full release, rather a pre-release and beta. We’ve been working for the last 6 months to get a number of projects pulled in under the umbrella of psych0tik. Currently, we have 2 services ready for launch, a few sitting at around 80% completion, and a half dozen or so “on the whiteboard.”

We’re doing this pre-release to stabilize our IRC so that our faithful users can finally enjoy uninterrupted conversations. We’ve started from scratch, built a new server with a new IRCd, added in services and even did a bit of testing. We’re now releasing the first node of the psych0tik irc, storm, for beta testing. The testing on this node will help us iron out any defects in our configuration or add any additional features we may want before then rolling that out to a 2nd node.

You can connect to the psych0tik irc with any SSL capable IRC client (e.g. irssi, xchat2) at storm.psych0tik.net on port 6697

>/connect -ssl storm.psych0tik.net 6697

This blog will be the source for psych0tik news, research results, random rants, and most other current happenings. The main site, when released, will act more as a central hub for all the projects and provide high level overview of each.

In the weeks to come we’ll be working towards our full release, which will add the following to the psych0tik network:

  • a main site
  • proxyElite
  • the additional irc node

-psych0tik staff

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proxyElite moving to psych0tik

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Those of you who’ve followed this site for a while may remember the proxyElite project that richo and I started a few years ago. The concept was to provide a list of fast, working, stable proxies by constantly checking the status of a large list and using some backend algorithms to help determine which proxies would be best.

The project eventually fell to the side because of lack of resources as the weak little shared host it was running on just couldn’t handle the load of checking thousands of proxies every hour and the lists grew too stale too quickly.

Now, with the creation of the psych0tik network, we’re reviving the project. The web application will be moving to a new server, one that can handle the load of the look ups. Beyond simply reviving the project as it was when we left off, we’ll be reworking the code, adding new features, and working to make the list even more reliable.

Stay tuned while we get things moved and restarted and you should be seeing this in the new year.

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A new mindset – A new box

Friday, November 13th, 2009

It’s been sometime since I’ve last made a post (like a really long time,) but I’m changing that with this post (obviously) and yet again promising to be more attentive. This time however, the change isn’t simply “more blog posts”, but instead a radical change. SamuraiNet will be merging with the psych0tik network and I will be joining with richo and CarbonLifeForm to run the new and improved psych0tik. Over the next couple months we’ll be releasing more information, including a real release date (to hold ourselves to getting this done.)

All these changes mean only one thing, we needed to amp up our gear. As it’d been a while since I bought a new machine and I was itching to get something fun I volunteered to make the first addition to our network, Storm.

Storm’s Specs:

Built on: Shuttle SA76G2 Barebone 

AMD Phenom II x4 Black (4 Cores@3.2Ghz)

4Gb Patriot Viper DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)

Seagate Barracuda 1.5Tb (7200 rpm) SATA drive

Western Digital Velociraptor 150Gb (10000 rpm) SATA drive

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Paypal Shuts down the Hackers for Charity

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

It would seem in an attempt to keep fraud off Paypal, the Hackers for Charity (and Johnny himself) have been put in quite a pickle. While out in Kenya helping fight off the world’s problems, Paypal has gone ahead and frozen his account because of some paperwork issues. I agree that security and fraud protection are paramount for an organization such as Paypal; however, their poor response time and awful support system have left something to be desired.

For more information, check out:

http://www.hackersforcharity.org/259/paypal-shuts-us-down/

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and… we’re back!

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

After nearly a month of no updates, I have returned to post again. Just because I haven’t been posting doesn’t mean that articles aren’t in the works. There are quite a few posts sitting in various stages of partial completion that I will be working to get posted soon. This week’s Reading Rainbow will encompass many of the achieved articles I’ve read since the last episode so it alone should make for decent reading.

Here’s a sneak peak at what’s in store:

  • Backtrack2 Wireless Shell-script
  • A continuation of the penetration testing series focusing on RefControl and the User Agent Switcher
  • My commentary on the “hacker mindset”

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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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