Brutus Stub App

Greetings and salutations! I’ve been busy not with breaking things, but instead making things! Its a totally different balls park to make something useful than it is to try and find flaws in it. This little stub application is part of a larger application I’ve been slowly building up over the last few months. I […]

Reversing a Botnet

Howdy fellow crackers and hackers alike! Have I got a treat for you? A live botnet. The other day at work, I encountered a number of machines all attacking other hosts. Normally its just one machine, but this there were several. We isolated the exe responsible because it was eating up 100% CPU (not exactly […]

The problem with PCI compliance

Hello everyone and happy new year. PCI compliance requires CC’s be encrypted, yet every other online store I’ve encountered STORES the ENCRYPTION KEY on the box, usually somewhere in the store’s code. What’s the point? Who does this deter? Even if the CC’s are encrypted, what’s to stop someone from just grabbing the CC’s and […]

Cache is your friend

They don’t make sites like they used to anymore. Seems more people are security conscious. I say this because when i look to the past, I found hacking sites and servers a little easier. Example: What happened? I don’t think things are any easier / harder. I think error messages are just turned off by […]