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THC SSL DoS/DDoS Tool Released For Download

admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:20:12 +0000

THC-SSL-DOS is a tool to verify the performance of SSL. Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processing power on the server than on the client. THC-SSL-DOS exploits this asymmetric property by overloading the server and knocking it off the Internet. This problem affects all SSL implementations today. The vendors are aware of this…

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WikiLeaks Attacks Cause Rival DDoS Retaliation

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:57:27 +0000

The biggest news by far for the past week or so has been the attacks on WikiLeaks infrastructure after posting tens of thousands of classified cables online in a categorized form. Just a few days ago their DNS provider (EveryDNS) pulled the plug – apparently due to pressure from the US government, and also because [...]

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ddosim v0.2 – Application Layer DDOS Simulator

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:13:01 +0000

DDOSIM simulates several zombie hosts (having random IP addresses) which create full TCP connections to the target server. After completing the connection, DDOSIM starts the conversation with the listening application (e.g. HTTP server). Can be used only in a laboratory environment to test the capacity of the target server to handle application…

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XT IDE controller

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:10:19 +0000

[Geordy] wanted to use some IDE devices but he didn’t have an interface card for his XT system, which can’t handle 16-bit IDE. He looked around for 8-bit ISA controllers but they were hard to find and quite expensive. Lucky for him there’s an open source project that makes a solution to this problem. The XTIDE project brought together a group of vintage computing enthusiasts to design this ISA card. [Geordy] was even able to order a professional PCB from one of the forum members. He ordered the parts an soldered it together, costing about $30 total. He had a friend help him burn the code to the EEPROM but that’s easy enough to do with an Arduino, Bus Pirate, or one of several other methods. Now his grand plans at installing DOS 6.22 have been realized.

DIY picture frame better than store bought

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:08:34 +0000

[Daniel's] homemade digital picture frame looks great, it’s well-built, and it has a nice set of features. It’s not made from a broken laptop and he didn’t build it around a microcontroller. Instead, he saved a 19″ LCD monitor with a burnt out back light caused by the extremely common blown capacitor problem. Twenty dollars on eBay landed him a small industrial single board computer to drive the system.

The software end of things is a curious conglomeration but considering the hardware constraints [Daniel] made some great choices. He’s using MS-DOS along with LxPic for slide shows and Mplayer for video. The rest of the software gets him up on the home network and enables IR remote control via LIRC. All o this makes for a beautiful product (video after the break includes some Doom footage) and the package is pulling just 40W when in use.

China Reports Millions Of Conficker Infections

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:25:30 +0000

Conficker has been giving us all headaches for quite some time now, the latest news it that China hosts up to 28% of the World Conficker infections at its peak.
7 million separate hosts infected with Conficker at the end of 2009, that’s more than the population of some countries!
It’s a pretty nasty piece of malware [...]

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PenTBox – Penetration Testing Security Suite

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:49:46 +0000

PenTBox is a Security Suite that packs security and stability testing oriented tools for networks and systems. Programmed in Ruby and oriented to GNU/Linux systems, but compatible with Windows, MacOS and every systems where Ruby works.

It is free, licensed under GNU/GPLv3.
PenTBox Contains
Cryptography tools

Base64 Encoder &…

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Zeus-related Botnet Servers Taken Offline

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:42:35 +0000

We wrote about Zeus a while back, a nasty trojan which can evade detection by Anti-virus software and is ranked as the number 1 trojan infector by numbers.
About a week ok a massive sting operation took down large parts of the Mariposa botnet in Spain and the USA and the latest news is large [...]

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Twitter & Facebook Taken Offline By DDoS Attacks

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:18:08 +0000

Both Facebook and Twitter were hit with pretty severe DDoS attacks rendering them useless and unavailable to the majority of users.
The thing is it seems like it wasn’t a traditional network based botnet style DDoS attack, but a ‘joejob‘ attack where spam is sent out containing a link and the users clicking on the link [...]

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Hospital Hacker GhostExodus Owns Himself – Arrested

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:53:59 +0000

This story actually gave me a lot of LULZ, how stupid can you be seriously? Man this guy made so many mistakes for someone so paranoid (he had a web cam setup outside his appartment door so he could see who was coming)..
But then he exposed his IP address on IRC, posted his face on [...]

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Slowloris – HTTP DoS Tool in PERL

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:35:18 +0000

This tool has been hitting the news, including some mentions in the SANS ISC Diary.
It’s not actually a new attack (it’s been around since 2005) but this is the first time a packaged tool has been released for the attack.

Slowloris holds connections open by sending partial HTTP requests. It continues to send subsequent headers at [...]

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