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Six Presets and an Itchy Trigger Finger
Hey radio broadcasters, here is a concise list of things that will make me immediately and instinctively change to another preset radio station: A commercial with an 800 number. Because i know they will repeat it at least three times, and that fast repetition is annoying. Dead air for more than 3 or 4 seconds.…
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Improving Foursquare
FourSquare is a social media application, allowing you to use GPS enabled phones to ‘check in’ to venues, earn badges, etc. As with most social media platforms, 4sq lacks several features and would benefit from additional work. Some of my ideas, after using the site for a month. “Things done” is a poor choice of…
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Box of Shit: Aloria’s Response
At some point around 2008 I put together a box with a bunch of random shit laying around. Nothing of value, all stuff you question why you even kept it in the first place basically. Off it went to an unsuspecting victim/friend. From there, the box-of-shit was born. Since then, I have sent out hundreds…
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Hello MPAA, I’m a Pirate
Dear Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), That’s right, I am one of those dastardly pirates that engages in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) theft, downloading movies when so inclined. I do not do it because I have a fascination with breaking the law, nor am I struggling for money. I do it because it is convenient, and the movie industry…
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Selling out one more notch…
over a year ago, i created a twitter account under ‘attritionorg‘. it is shared with others on the system, but i do most of the tweets. it was a break down from my previous notion of avoiding social media. i figured out how to use twitter for my own benefit; not only as a source…
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So far, yet so short…
two days into my smart phone experience, i am simultaneously amazed and disgusted by the state of technology surrounding these devices and ‘cloud’ applications. back in the day, i had a ‘hacker’ mindset. i found flaws in systems that let me circumvent security or gain privileges not intended for users (or remote people not intended…
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Selling out, yet another step…
In keeping with publicly documenting my selling out to social media, it looks like I joined Facebook on August 11, 2010.
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Scanning Large Networks with Nessus
[This was originally published on the Tenable Blog.] The first time I was asked to scan a Class B network, my initial reaction was “Are you kidding me?” I actually thought it was a trick question to see how I reacted to unexpected situations. I had just two weeks to develop a strategy and perform…
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InfoSec, Sun Tzu and the Art of Whore
[This was originally written by Steve Tornio and Jericho and published on attrition.org. Archiving here for a backup copy that is live and not on an archive site. Note that the new WordPress.com interface in 2020 is dreadful. They have made it impossible to uniformly size images in tables, among other things. Read the copy…
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Detecting the Recent Adobe 0-Day (APSA10-01) with Nessus
[This was originally published on the Tenable blog.] On June 4, 2010, Adobe announced a new attack being exploited in the wild that targeted Adobe products, and word spread quickly. Adobe’s security bulletin (APSA10-01) provided few details, but confirmed that attackers were actively exploiting a vulnerability that affected their Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat.…