DHCP starvation, its an easy way to deny real users on a network. DHCP starvation occurs when an attacker runs a script that constantly spoofs a hardware address and requests DHCP leases. If enough requests flooded onto the network, the attacker can completely exhaust the address space allocated by the DHCP servers for and indefinite [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Force traffic though a VPN
For the past couple of days I have been working on a simple but complicated project. Here is the back story… I connect to a public VPN to keep my torrent traffic hidden and private. One day when I came home I found that the VPN tunnel was reset, probably a server reboot on the [...]
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Tor Backdoor
I bumped into a backdoor that can be used to control a vulnerable system via Tor. It gives you an encrypted C&C channel out of the victim’s network Anonymity (Tor) Cross platform It works by sending a modified Base64 https request to https://tor-proxy.net. Tor-proxy.net will forward an http request to a .onion router that is [...]
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How I would hack your weak passwords
using a secure password is wise, but only a deterrent. Cracking passwords can be automated and systematic. Lets rule password guessing out because most of my readers won’t be (or shouldn’t be) using dates, names, college times, places, significant events, and that chicks name that is with your best friend right now. What I can [...]
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Move WordPress to new Domain
WordPress should be portable, it shouldn’t matter what domain it is running on. WordPress doesn’t work this way unfortunately and although it may in the future you will have to move everything by hand. Well to make this take simple, easy, and fast I have provided three easy SQL query to help your task of [...]
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