Check out this computer joke section: http://www.surfersam.com/friends/funny-computer-jokes.htm Surfer Sam has several interesting computer jokes (my opinion of course) Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. I always love the old computer quotes: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 The drinking song … Read more
The talk on pdf form at Defcon media servers: Inter-VM data exfiltration – The art of cache timing covert channel on x86 multi-core By Etienne Martineau a kernel developer. So how can you steal data from one instance while being on another in the same hypervisor machine – you see the … Read more
Patch Tuesday August ( 8/11/2015) Here is Microsoft patch Tuesday August 2015 edition https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-aug.aspx How can I say that unpatched computers will get hacked? Any Metasploit pentester will tell you this. Metasploit is a nifty program (runs on Linux) that will attack computers with various attacks and payloads. It takes advantage of people who … Read more
Bart Kulach has a pdf from this year’s Defcon23 “Hack the Legacy! IBMi (aka AS/400) revealed” He recommends to check the website he set up http://www.hackthelegacy.org/ The items he has focused on are the privilege escalation issue in this slide: There are some good suggestions for a standard audit of your AD Check your group … Read more
Grant Bugher with perimetergrid.com had a talk on the DEFCON101 track. “Obtaining and Detecting Domain Persistence” As the slide above states, it is not about _how_ to hack a domain. But assuming someone has – now what? 1st Process start command line logging and PowerShell logging enabled on all systems. 2nd SysMon(Sysinternals Monitoring Service) … Read more