Adam Savage at HOPE

Interesting stuff from HOPE

I never noticed this when it first appeared a while back.




I guess when the well known attacks become mainstream - that the lawyers show up.

Speaking at RANT in Edinburgh on September 17th.

Worm Attacking Home Routers and DSL Modems

Very good article detailing the psyb0t botnet worm.

This is the first known botnet based on exploiting consumer network devices, such as home routers and cable/dsl modems.

It stresses the importance of changing all passwords on internet facing network kit.

Use a random string of sufficient length or grab a 63 character string from GRC.

Defcon 16 is over and the papers are available for viewing.

The BGP intercept attack as described by Anton "Tony" Kapela and Alex Pilosov at Defcon 16 has been gaining notoriety, so I thought I would start gathering some of the information here as a centralised resource.

The Wired article is probably the best place to start. They added an additional article to further describe the attack and a bit of the history behind it.

The effect of the BGP re-route has already been seen with the Pakistan – YouTube incident.

The link to the Defcon slides is here.

Another Security Truism

It seems that restaurant owners are able to alter their sales records on electronic cash registers using zappers.

It just proves that physical access to a computer means you can alter it.

In other words, if you can touch the box, you can own the box.

Zen Info Sec Starts

Decided on Zen info Sec after deciding the previous company name was terrible.

I will be using this to post general Security postings. Mainly so that I can keep track of stuff