Posts Tagged ‘Infosec’

Just how easy is it to ‘BeEF’? December 5th, 2012

With the recent WordPress theme design work I’ve been doing, it got me wondering as to how easy it would be for a rogue website admin to use BeEF for inappropriate purposes… To find out I decided to test it myself.

Hashode – A Python script to encode and decode data October 4th, 2012

Part of my role requires me to review log files, these log files often contain encoded data. Whilst there are many 3rd party applications available for Windows to encode or decode data, I always had a small fear that these 3rd party applications may be ‘phoning home’. So a while ago I decided to write [...]

Tips for assessing Citrix published applications April 16th, 2012

Over the years as both a Citrix engineer and an Infosec professional I have had to harden or assess a large number of published Citrix applications. Whilst I obviously cannot go into the specifics of bespoke applications etc, I wanted to try and provide some tips on how to breakout of a bespoke published application. [...]

IPtables and log redirection March 12th, 2012

I’ve seen many questions over the years on forums asking one of two questions with regard to iptables. The most common repeating questions that I’ve seen are: How do i have my iptable rules automatically load when my machine boots? and How can I have iptables log activity to a separate file?

Python web scraper February 24th, 2011

This article from Infosec Island got me thinking, wouldn’t it be good to have a home page which gives me the information I want (Infosec stuff), with links to advisories etc. Well God bless Python, cos I’ve got one on the way now….  to do it I’m just using URLOPEN and RE.  I’m using print [...]