Blowing Up Shell Scripts
One of the most universal experiences of any Linux or Unix user is working through a guide or handbook and coming across an almost unbelievably complex line of code meant …read more Continue reading Blowing Up Shell Scripts
Category Archives: script
Custom Keyboard from a Cash Register
Having a high-quality mechanical keyboard is often a rite of passage in the computing world, with gamers and coders alike having strong opinions on the best devices. Even then, the …read more Continue reading Custom Keyboard from a Cash Register
A Different Kind of IKEA Hack: Javascript Price Comparison by Location
When looking for the best deal, it pays to shop around. When it comes to chain stores, of course, one expects the price to be the same across their retail network. However, where international companies are concerned, occasionally a better deal is just a border crossing away. To investigate the …read more
Continue reading A Different Kind of IKEA Hack: Javascript Price Comparison by Location
Raccoon Malware Aims to Steal Credentials of People Who Use Popular Apps
Security researchers have followed the evolution of a piece of infostealer malware named Raccoon, as it’s being developed and enhanced to work in as many scenarios as possible, including email clients, Internet browsers, and more. Infostealers ar… Continue reading Raccoon Malware Aims to Steal Credentials of People Who Use Popular Apps
FTCode: PowerShell’s Own Ransomware
If it is not yet apparent how pervasive and problematic ransomware is, just look at the news. Weekly, and sometimes near-daily, a new variant is discovered or another massive corporation has fallen victim to an attack. Whether a Fortune 500 company or… Continue reading FTCode: PowerShell’s Own Ransomware
Raspberry Pi Streams Music Using Only the Default Linux Tools
Getting a home music streaming system off the ground is typically a straightforward task. Using Apple devices with Airplay makes this task trivial, but if you’re a computing purist like [Connor] who runs a Linux machine and wants to keep it light on extra packages, the task gets complicated quickly. …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi Streams Music Using Only the Default Linux Tools
[SANS ISC] Obfuscated bash script targeting QNap boxes
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Obfuscated bash script targeting QNap boxes“: One of our readers, Nathaniel Vos, shared an interesting shell script with us and thanks to him! He found it on an embedded Linux device, more precisely, a QNap NAS running QTS 4.3. After some quick investigations,
[The post [SANS ISC] Obfuscated bash script targeting QNap boxes has been first published on /dev/random]
Continue reading [SANS ISC] Obfuscated bash script targeting QNap boxes
Delving deep into VBScript
In late April we found and wrote a description of CVE-2018-8174, a new zero-day vulnerability for Internet Explorer that uses a well-known technique from the PoC exploit CVE-2014-6332. But whereas CVE-2014-6332 was aimed at integer overflow exploitation for writing to arbitrary memory locations, my interest lay in how this technique was adapted to exploit the use-after-free vulnerability. Continue reading Delving deep into VBScript
The Big Business of CryptoKitties Is Being Automated
Great, now digital kitten mills are a thing. Continue reading The Big Business of CryptoKitties Is Being Automated
Automatically Resize an Azure VM
In this “how to” post, Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure Automation to scale up (increase) or scale down (decrease) the size of an Azure virtual machine.
The post Automatically Resize an Azure VM appeared first on Petri.