Once again I’m glad I don’t do business with BT(with the exception of line rental). First Phorm: now thisBT has begun transforming its commercial customers’ Business Hubs into OpenZone hotspots for any passing Tom, Dick or Harry to share, and leaving businesses to figure out how to opt out of the scheme after the fact.…snip…“Free […]
Monthly archives: February 2009
Windows Right-Click context menus
Whilst doing some research on reverse engineering I came across a useful tip on the Tipping Point MindshaRE blogs. The post details the (simple) steps required to add IDA Pro‘s disassembly to Window’s right-click context menu. This is definitely simpler than I had expected it to be,although admittedly not something I had investigated before. Judging […]
Aggressive Network Self-defense
I’m a fan of ‘case study’ type research and analysis, so I think I hit pay-dirt when I found this book. I’ve had the book on my shelf for a couple of years now and keep coming back to it and re-reading whenever I’m looking for inspiration (or just a good read). The basis of […]
First Lab Victim
I’ve spent the last couple of hours installing my next victim machine for lab, thought I’d share the process if for nothing else it’ll be a useful reminder next time I delete the wrong file and need to re-do tonight’s work. Target in this case is a Windows XP install, patched to service pack 2. […]
Satellite Hacking
Just read an interesting article on El Reg about Adam Laurie, who has supposedly been ‘hacking’ satellite feeds. Unless I’m missing something it appears to be more a case of sniffing unencrypted communication coming from and going to satellites, but it is interesting in any case. One of the parts of the article I liked […]
Lab environment
I’m currently in the process of getting my lab environment in place so I’ve got a safe (and secure) place to test all of my projects and thoughts. To assist I’ve been reading Michael Gregg’s “Build your own security lab“, it is a good resource and comes with some good tools (like a trial of […]
Welcome…
Thought I better get around to christening this blog with the first post. I’m intending to use this as a place to log my projects and ‘interesting’ findings. Along the way I may even produce something useful to the wider world. Hopefully you’ll find my wibblings useful, informative or just humorous. Let me know either […]