Nullamatix.com – DDoS Attack 12-2009
Posted December 14, 2009 – 12:20 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedThe attack started around 03:05:07 EST on Saturday, December 12th, 2009. As far as I know, the attack is still going on. My service provider has null routed the target IP (old IP for www.nullamatix.com), at least until the attack subsides. Fortunately, Nullamatix.com is back up and running as of 14:30:00 EST on Sunday, December [...]
No Comments | Tags:529 Attacks in 9 Days: id1.txt, RFI, & More
Posted December 10, 2009 – 11:00 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedLong time Nullamatix readers know how much I love reviewing log files. Logs can provide detailed incite into not only the overall health of a system, but information one can use to mitigate the risks of automated attacks. In this post, I’ll go over a couple ways to harden a PHP enabled web server [...]
No Comments | Tags:New Wordpress Plugin: IP Intelligence
Posted November 29, 2009 – 07:20 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedDescription
Provides the ability to retrieve information on a commentators IP address without leaving the “edit-comments.php” page. Version 0.0.1 is capable of retrieving the following information:
Reverse DNS/PTR
Long/Proper IPv4 Format
Country of Origin
Region or State
City
Timezone
StopForumSpam.com Data
Whois Information
IP Intelligence also provides targeted/dynamic links to the following destinations for further research:
Google Search Query
Google Groups Search Query
Project HoneyPot
Spamhaus
OpenRBL
Robtex (Lucky)
Tested and working [...]
No Comments | Tags:Count the Total Number of IPs From CIDR
Posted November 22, 2009 – 05:00 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedAfter adding a few IPs to a firewall drop list, I wondered, “exactly how many IPs are in this drop list?” Since the list contained 187 entries, all in CIDR notation, adding up the total number of IPs in my head was impossible. So, I put together this little script and figured someone else out [...]
No Comments | Tags:Guest Submission: PC Maintenance
Posted November 18, 2009 – 03:40 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedJust as the human body requires daily cleanup and factory machines demand turnaround maintenance, your personal computer requires regular cleanup. This simple maintenance does not cost a buck. Failure to carry out regular maintenance would slow down system speed with the passage of time. It can also make certain keys on your keyboard not work. [...]
No Comments | Tags:RIP: str0ke of milw0rm.com
Posted November 4, 2009 – 23:20 in: Nullamatix, syndicated** update **
See anon’s comment below.
http://twitter.com/str0ke/status/5422531377
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I first heard the sad news from Michael on the Full-disclosure mailing list.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Micheal Turner wrote:
We are mourning a good friend today. I first begun talking to str0ke when I started publishing exploit codes onto this mailing list, he would always [...]
Solved: Sprunge.us & Squid TCP_MISS/417
Posted October 25, 2009 – 21:00 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedThe Problem
An attempt to use sprunge.us (the only paste-bin worth using) with curl from behind a Squid proxy returns an error.
The Symptoms
Here’s the Squid error message in case you forgot:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved.
While trying to process the request:
POST / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Host: sprunge.us
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 1117
Expect: 100-continue
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=—————————-e77c50e200fb
The [...]
No Comments | Tags:DIY: Home Surveillance System with VLC
Posted October 23, 2009 – 20:20 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedThe current state of the global economy has shot the U.S. unemployment rate up – waay up. As a result, more people are willing to commit crimes in order to provide for themselves or their family. Just this year, two houses that share the street I live on were broken into. Based on the alleged [...]
No Comments | Tags:GoDaddy: Express Written Objection to Transfer
Posted October 23, 2009 – 20:20 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedLast week I decided to simply try another domain registrar by transferring 3 domains away from GoDaddy. After happily blindly relying on GoDaddy as my primary domain registrar for years, I had an extremely difficult time believing they would stoop as low as they did. As a result of the events described below, they’ve permanently [...]
No Comments | Tags:Solution: “failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied”
Posted October 17, 2009 – 18:40 in: Nullamatix, syndicatedAfter installing and attempting to use sshfs (Secure Shell File System) for the first time in a few months, the permissions for the fuse device were giving me grief.
guyp@q9550 ~$ sshfs -p 62002 root@10.254.7.56:/ /mnt/sshfs
fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
Ok, what happens if we prefix with sudo?
guyp@q9550 ~$ sudo sshfs -p 62002 root@10.254.7.56:/ [...]
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