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Review of Surviving Cyberwar by Richard Stiennon

If you’re looking for depictions of “cyber-Katrina” or “cyber-9/11”, this book isn’t for you. Richard Stiennon’s[1] new book “Surviving Cyberwar”[2] points out as early as in the introduction that it’s not trying to scare people with scenarios of “cybergeddon,” but … Continue reading

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Odd bugs and the case of an aging database

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 … Continue reading

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Thoughts on IPv6 Firewalling

It 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 … Continue reading

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Defcon 18 – photos and followup

Another 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 … Continue reading

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The psych0tik network presents: proxyElite

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 … Continue reading

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psych0tik IRC downtime: resolved!

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 … Continue reading

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