Edit: You can grab new releases of this tool here: https://code.google.com/p/sergio-proxy/downloads/list
I've gotten all settled in my new place (finally), so I figured I should get caught up on my blog again. Lots of posts coming soon, I promise!
Today, I'm ...
Most system administrators know that using non-standard ports for some services can be a useful way to hide ports from both automated attacks and less determined attackers. In addition, it is also a good way to lower the profile of an important host on your network, as an initial portscan ...
The final contest results were announced today, so I have opened up my documentation of the event for all to read. Congrats to Vadium (docs) and Woff (docs), you guys definitely deserved it!
I was a little disappointed with my results personally, but 24th out of ~1000 isn't bad ...
Hi all,
Just wanted to let everyone know that although I have posted my challenge report, it will be password protected from now until the judging of the entires has been completed. This is simply to protect myself from having my solutions stolen, although I would hope that no one ...
This weekend, Offensive Security held a hacking competition (CTF style), so of course I felt obliged to participate. After all, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to get some good old fashioned hacking in. So, I `svn update`d my trusty old Metasploit copy, grabbed a significant quantity of ...
I can't do it anymore. I wish I could, but this just isn't working out, Facebook. The lies, the viruses, the two-timing with advertisers, I just can't handle it all. I don't have the time or the energy to deal with all of your deceptions and ...
I've had enough. And no, I'm not talking coffee. No such thing as enough coffee. No, rather, I've had enough of people claiming that the sky is falling, when it clearly isn't (and making a few bucks off the fear while they're at it). I ...
If you're reading this, the site move should now be complete. In addition to the move, I've also taken the opportunity to upgrade to a newer, more flexible theme, which I will be working on in the next few weeks. To help offset the costs for hosting and ...
Well, the day is here! I am officially moving my blog off of wordpress.com hosting onto duststorm's VPS. You will still be able to access it at spareclockcycles.wordpress.com, but the main site will be spareclockcycles.org, so update your bookmarks accordingly. There will be a lot ...
A few posts ago I released some rather simplistic code to do reverse DNS lookups. While useful, many improvements could obviously be made. The lookup speeds were pretty dismal (15-25 lookups a second), stemming from my poor handling of timeouts and the fact that I had lazily ignored multithreading because ...