Category: InfoSec

  • mv index.new index.html (a look at web defacement)

    [This was originally published on Hacker News Network (HNN), Hacker’s Club, and mirrored on attrition.org.] Introduction Browsing the web, enjoying your time, nothing better to do. Casual search for something interesting to read, or maybe even a little research for a project or term paper. Click here, click there, link from site to site. Some…

  • Disclosure: Possible problems with ‘sudo’ package

    During a recent client assessment, I discovered what I thought to be a bug in the ‘sudo’ package. After further investigating and talking with Todd C. Miller (the maintainer of ‘sudo’), I was informed that it was not a bug, but expected behavior under a default install. The reason for this post it to make…

  • Practical Sendmail Routing

    [This was originally published in Phrack Magazine #53 and mirrored on attrition.org.] Intro: This article will be short and sweet as the concept and methodology are quite simple. UUCP Style routing has been around longer than most newbie hackers, yet it is a foreign concept to them. In past years, Phrack has seen at least…

  • #218: Half an Ass

    [F.U.C.K. is an e-zine that I started on January 24, 1993 and ended on January 24, 2000. One concept is that articles should be timeless if possible, so they were not released with dates. As such, the date on this blog is not exact but I will try to use a date as close as…

  • The Tao of 1AESS

    [This was originally published in Communications of The New order (CoTNO) Issue #6. It was written by Deadkat and myself with special thanks to Gatsby and Mark Tabas. It was published in the fall of 1995, sometime after September 21.] Introduction The Bell System’s first trial of electronic switching took place in Morris, Illinois, in…

  • #131: Toll Fraud

    [F.U.C.K. is an e-zine that I started on January 24, 1993 and ended on January 24, 2000. One concept is that articles should be timeless if possible, so they were not released with dates. As such, the date on this blog is not exact but I will try to use a date as close as…

  • #107: H0H0 ’94

    [F.U.C.K. is an e-zine that I started on January 24, 1993 and ended on January 24, 2000. One concept is that articles should be timeless if possible, so they were not released with dates. As such, the date on this blog is not exact but I will try to use a date as close as…

  • #090: Defcon ][

    [F.U.C.K. is an e-zine that I started on January 24, 1993 and ended on January 24, 2000. One concept is that articles should be timeless if possible, so they were not released with dates. As such, the date on this blog is not exact but I will try to use a date as close as…

  • #008: Journalism at its Finest

    [F.U.C.K. is an e-zine that I started on January 24, 1993 and ended on January 24, 2000. One concept is that articles should be timeless if possible, so they were not released with dates. As such, the date on this blog is not exact but I will try to use a date as close as…