All aboard! Time to check-in on “Insight”

If you missed your chance to get a boarding pass to “Orion” mission, you have another chance: NASA is preparing “Insight” and this flight is heading to Mars the next year. Your name will be put to a chip on “Insight”. Hurry! Registration will be closed on Sep 8th.

Deface pages at Pastebin

Pastebin.com is favorite place for software programmers. They share code snippets, and by default a submitted “pastie” is publicly available. By some reason hackers also like to share HTML codes of defacement pages they use for compromised site. I wrote a script that scans Pastebin on regular basis, detects HTML code and renders it. Below you … Read more

Phishing, funny stuff

Recently I got yet another phishing email that invited me to do something urgently with my RBC account. Oh, nice! I have to install a security certificate in order to continue use RBC online banking. Too complex to be true, right? I checked the attachment and it was not a security certificate as was promised. Actually … Read more

Snorby & Snort is up and running

Finally I setup my home IDS: Snort & Snorby on top. The goal: to see what is going on in my Internet traffic, is there anything interesting. Also Snort output will be collected by home Splunk instance. The screenshot below shows only test events, nothing serious 🙂 I used this guide: Home IDS with Snort … Read more