Posted on Monday, 22nd February 2010 by Michael
Cpanel remote FTP backup script Years ago I did web hosting as a side source of income. This led to me developing a lot of Linux based scripts to help automate my daily sysadmin responsibilities. Our hosting company was called ezhostingpro.com. Since then another party owns the domain but googling that and my name will […]
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Posted on Saturday, 20th February 2010 by Michael
Detecting Malware and other malicious files using md5 hashes The initial interest for this research came to me after reading an article on this on the site http://enclavesecurity.com/ . In the article they talk about using the malicious hashes to discover malware and other malicious files on their systems. They also take a deeper look […]
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Posted on Friday, 15th January 2010 by Michael
Recently I was reading an article about using Ruby on Rails to create a web scraper as I sat there and learned Ruby I got really excited to jump to the point and build a web scraper. Though as any programmer knows that is not possible until you have the base understanding of the language […]
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Posted on Thursday, 22nd October 2009 by Michael
Simple SMS sender It is no secret that almost all the cell phone companies today allow you to send txt messages to a person’s cell phone for free by means of emailing them a txt. This does not mean the company will not charge the receiver but the sender will not be charged. To do […]
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Posted on Thursday, 8th October 2009 by Michael
c99 and variant PHP shell detection, quarantine and removal Every day I review my web server’s visitor stats and logs and the other day I noticed something odd. I saw a URL that was accessed 35 times from the same exact IP and I did not recognize the file as being a part of Word […]
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Posted on Monday, 5th October 2009 by Michael
Years ago I was big into web hosting and was constantly offering my services to hosts to correct security issues and clean up other issues. One day I found a post where a hosting company had every .php .html .htm and so on page infected with malicious code through a security breach. After finding and […]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by Michael
Instant IDS v1.0 Instant IDS v1.0 is a custom shell script that will automatically download, configure and run Snort IDS and BASE web gui. Though this script has been tested in-depth I the author do not guarantee it will work and or not harm your system. Since this is a shell script and can be […]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by Michael
Null Session Scanning For a recent audit I was tasked with checking a class C network for null sessions. The task itself sounds simple doesn’t it? But I am not one to just run a quick scan without verifying my work. This caused a interesting discovery. My first run at the network I used NTscan […]
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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd September 2009 by Michael
PayPal Garage Sale Point of Sale system So I am about to have a garage sale and want to accept credit cards so people can’t say they don’t have money so I search all over the internet and there is nothing in the form of a POS for paypal users. So what do I do […]
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