Really funny petition at http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/linus-torvalds-remove-rdrand-from-dev-random-4 Linus’ reply: Where do I start a petition to raise the IQ and kernel knowledge of people? Guys, go read drivers/char/random.c. Then, learn about cryptography. Finally, come back here and admit to the world that…
Found a website and a forensics contest yesterday quite by accident. I was waiting for somebody before going out for the night and I thought this might be a little fun while I waited. Now the contest had closed and…
Awesome! Hot linked from xkcd. Also, checkout wikipedia for more details on what the Russians do and how public key cryptography could get you killed or landed in jail (if you live in the uk).
I came across an old enough post on Didier’s blog about Group policies that have disabled cmd.exe from running. Didier mentions a few ways to get cmd.exe to run. The suggestion I like the most is to find the DisableCMD string in cmd.exe…
Introduction Today I am adding a malicious system call to the Linux kernel which will allow the caller to do something they cannot normally do in user mode. When attacking a Linux box our goal is usually to become root;…