Fun
T-Shirt Shell Competition
For our internal hackathon, we wanted to produce some shirts. We ran a competition to see who could produce a reverse shell invocation most worthy of inclusion on a shirt. Here are the submissions, which may be instructive or useful. But first; the winning t-shirt design goes to Vlad (-islav, baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more): Funny story; the printer left out the decimal points between the…
CANSA Shavathon 2010
This past Thursday we received notice that Boogterman & Partners would be a host company for the CANSA Shavathon 2010 taking place on Friday, 05/03/2010. So when I send out an email to everyone at SensePost, little did I know at the time what a huge thing this would turn into. However I really shouldn’t be surprised as this is a typical show of how “We Roll”! I was challenged…
Twitter killed the (infosec) Blogging Star ?
Like it, hate it or just plain struggling to understand it, Twitter has made a huge impact across a wide range of fields. We use it fairly heavily internally for simulated water-cooler chatter and quick link-exchange. (like any piece of sp-geek-over-engineering we also have a tweet-bot to convert tweets to emails, and convert blog notifications to tweets). It’s pretty clear though, that once we started tweeting internally, people started blogging…
Spammers need love too..
-snip- From: Haroon Meer <haroon@sensepost.com> To: Marc Schneider <marcs@mplw.net> Subject: Re: http://www.sensepost.com – Contact needed Hi Dr Schneider. * Marc Schneider [marcs@mplw.net] seemed to say: >I am Dr. Marc Schneider and I work for Multilingual Search Engine >Optimization Inc. in Washington DC ( Tel: 1 202-250-3645) – I would >like to speak with the person in charge of your international >clientele. Who is my contact? Who should I speak to??…
About:SnowLeopard
Sure it only cost $29, but when you consider the number of people bowing down and thanking our Cupertino overlords you have to consider the following: If the Emperor was given his new clothes today, #emperors_clothes would be trending on twitter (with ppl thanking the tailors for reduced closet space requirements) /mh
Chris Eng 1 – 0 Verizon DBIR Cover
Chris Eng over [at the Veracode blog] documents how he approached, and decoded the info behind the [2009 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report ] Its an interesting read, and although in the end it turned out to be just a [Vigenère cipher] and fell to (effectively) a [known plaintext attack], its def. worth the few minutes it will take to read..
#include fakeNewsStory.h
what? on April 1st???? Never!
Hello World (With an LED)
Way back when i was a sysadmin, i recall reading a quote from one of the ATT greybeards who said something to the effect of “every competent sysadmin should be able to build his own network card”. Of course most of us have spent tons of time ripping apart electronics and “watching what happens when you connect X and Y”, but unlike the electronic engineers with their oh-so-cool multi-meters ive…
Only an idiot will install a beta os on his primary phone..
and i am that idiot… Developers signed up with Apples Dev Program get to take iPhoneOS3.0 out for a spin, so that the app store can have ver3 apps when the new OS launches.. A quick download (as quick as it gets in South Africa), a prayer (or 10) during install: and now i too have a phone that can handle cut n paste! (tho admittedly it feels surprisingly fiddly…
Joe Grand (Kingpin) gets famouser!
This is probably really old news (to some), but was in the company of sattelite TV this weekend and saw that Joe Grand now has a TV Slot all of his own. “Prototype This” looks like it will be awesome.. I spent the rest of the day trying hard to catch the adverts at just the right time to get a pic of Joe, while excitedly saying “i cant believe…