Something I’ve been meaning to do for a while is document and keep a list of all the RSS feeds I’ve collected over the years, mainly because I can’t remember them all. Initially I had a mild panic as I couldn’t find any of the URLs from the feeds I’ve got configured through Outlook 2007, […]
Monthly archives: March 2009
Dark Reading: DIY security lab
As I’m currently setting up and playing with my home research lab this article from Dark Reading caught my attention. The article doesn’t provide too much ‘new’ material to those that have researched security labs even in minimal depths, but it does focus on how security labs can provide cheap training to keep your skills sharp during the current economic current. I don’t want to paraphrase the article as it is all fairly self-explanatory, for those considering how to use a proposed or existing lab John Sawyers’ article suggests the following possibilities:
Sec610 Reverse Engineering Malware Demo
I spent a very interesting hour with Lenny Zeltser (and others) around a week ago with a live demo of part of Lenny’s Sec610 course. For those interested in taking the course, or malware in general, then I’d suggest that if the demo is a representative sample of the course then you’re likely to really […]
BBC, Botnet, Ethical, Legal?
New story seems to be everywhere at the moment. It appears that the BBC has ‘investigated’ the impact of botnets by hiring a 22,000 strong herd and ‘testing’ on there systems, but still utilising 22,000 compromised, private machines. Original BBC article is here. There have been many sites (The Register and The Guardian) have asked […]
Example PCAP files
Just a quick one this time around, as it is mostly a reminder to take a closer look once I get some free time…. Included in Dave Hull’s recent blog post on the SANS forensic blog (well worth a read in it’s own right) Dave links to part of the Network Miner Sourcefire site that […]
dd, netcat and system recovery
Simple scenarioa linux server (Debian in this case) has run out of hard-disk capacity (4GB) and needs to be migrated to a larger capacity hard drive (6GB). Should be simple, vmware even provides a nice method to merely expand the virtual hard disk capacity. However, I’m doing this for the purposes of practice and training […]