Archive for December, 2004

sometimes it’s the little things…

« 30 December 2004 | 23:36 | General | No Comments »

I did a house call today for some family friends who were having trouble with their computer. Most of it was really simple stuff, spyware and junk. But the kicker was that their computer would no longer stay in standby mode. It would shut off, and then immediately turn back on. I tried the usual [...]



alert omg alert!

« 29 December 2004 | 11:09 | General | No Comments »

I upgraded my server running FreeBSD 4.9 to 5.3-STABLE a few weeks ago. The nightly security email logs failed ssh login attempts, and I usually get a nice big list showing some douchebag trying to bruteforce the root login. After I upgraded, I noticed that they changed the warning message.
Dec 28 08:18:17 sshd[59651]: reverse [...]



BartPE is neato

« 20 December 2004 | 23:17 | Work | 1 Comment »

Today I got a chance to play around with BartPE; a very cool tool for assembling a WindowsPE environment from a standard Windows XP disc. I was very impressed with the functionality that the WinPE provides, and it really got me thinking about how we could potentially leverage this when helping students with virus or [...]



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« 19 December 2004 | 20:17 | General | No Comments »

Do what now?