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2021 21
- Journalists: stop selling NFTs that you don't understand
- Example: forensicating the Mesa County system image
- Debunking: that Jones Alfa-Trump report
- Review: Dune (2021)
- Fact check: that "forensics" of the Mesa image is crazy
- 100 terabyte home NAS
- Check: that Republican audit of Maricopa
- That Alfa-Trump Sussman indictment
- How not to get caught in law-enforcement geofence requests
- Of course you can't trust scientists on politics
- Risk analysis for DEF CON 2021
- Ransomware: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
- Some quick notes on SDR
- When we'll get a 128-bit CPU
- Anatomy of how you get pwned
- Ethics: University of Minnesota's hostile patches
- A quick FAQ about NFTs
- Deconstructing that $69million NFT
- We are living in 1984 (ETERNALBLUE)
- Review: Perlroth's book on the cyberarms market
- No, 1,000 engineers were not needed for SolarWinds
2020 18
- The deal with DMCA 1201 reform
- Why Biden: Principle over Party
- No, that's not how warrantee expiration works
- No, font errors mean nothing in that NYPost article
- Yes, we can validate leaked emails
- Factcheck: Regeneron's use of embryonic stem cells
- Cliché: Security through obscurity (yet again)
- How CEOs think
- In defense of open debate
- Apple ARM Mac rumors
- What is Boolean?
- Securing work-at-home apps
- CISSP is at most equivalent to a 2-year associates degree
- About them Zoom vulns...
- Huawei backdoors explanation, explained
- A requirements spec for voting
- There's no evidence the Saudis hacked Jeff Bezos's iPhone
- How to decrypt WhatsApp end-to-end media files
2019 21
- So that tweet was misunderstood
- This is finally the year of the ARM server
- CrowdStrike-Ukraine Explained
- Thread on the OSI model is a lie
- Thread on network input parsers
- Hacker Jeopardy, Wrong Answers Only Edition
- Securing devices for DEFCON
- Why we fight for crypto
- Censorship vs. the memes
- Some Raspberry Pi compatible computers
- Your threat model is wrong
- Almost One Million Vulnerable to BlueKeep Vuln (CVE-2019-0708)
- A lesson in journalism vs. cybersecurity
- Programming languages infosec professionals should learn
- Was it a Chinese spy or confused tourist?
- Assange indicted for breaking a password
- Some notes on the Raspberry Pi
- A quick lesson in confirmation bias
- A basic question about TCP
- How Bezo's dick pics might've been exposed
- Passwords in a file
2018 48
- Notes on Build Hardening
- Notes about hacking with drop tools
- Some notes about HTTP/3
- Brian Kemp is bad on cybersecurity
- Why no cyber 9/11 for 15 years?
- Masscan and massive address lists
- Systemd is bad parsing and should feel bad
- Masscan as a lesson in TCP/IP
- Some notes for journalists about cybersecurity
- TCP/IP, Sockets, and SIGPIPE
- Election interference from Uber and Lyft
- Notes on the UK IoT cybersec "Code of Practice"
- How to irregular cyber warfare
- Notes on the Bloomberg Supermicro supply chain hack story
- Mini pwning with GL-iNet AR150
- California's bad IoT law
- Debunking Trump's claim of Google's SOTU bias
- Provisioning a headless Raspberry Pi
- DeGrasse Tyson: Make Truth Great Again
- That XKCD on voting machine software is wrong
- What the Caesars (@DefCon) WiFi situation looks like
- Some changes in how libpcap works you should know
- Your IoT security concerns are stupid
- Lessons from nPetya one year later
- SMB version detection in masscan
- Notes on "The President is Missing"
- The First Lady's bad cyber advice
- The devil wears Pravda
- C is to low level
- masscan, macOS, and firewall
- Some notes on eFail
- Leaking securely, for White House staffers
- No, Ray Ozzie hasn't solved crypto backdoors
- OMG The Stupid It Burns
- Notes on setting up Raspberry Pi 3 as WiFi hotspot
- My letter urging Georgia governor to veto anti-hacking bill
- Let's stop talking about password strength
- Why the crypto-backdoor side is morally corrupt
- WannaCry after one year
- What John Oliver gets wrong about Bitcoin
- Some notes on memcached DDoS
- AskRob: Does Tor let government peek at vuln info?
- Blame privacy activists for the Memo??
- The problematic Wannacry North Korea attribution
- "Skyfall attack" was attention seeking
- Some notes on Meltdown/Spectre
- Why Meltdown exists
- Let's see if I've got Metldown right
2017 72
- Bitcoin: In Crypto We Trust
- Libertarians are against net neutrality
- A Thanksgiving Carol: How Those Smart Engineers at Twitter Screwed Me
- Don Jr.: I'll bite
- NetNeutrality vs. limiting FaceTime
- NetNeutrality vs. Verizon censoring Naral
- NetNeutrality vs. AT&T censoring Pearl Jam
- The FCC has never defended Net Neutrality
- Your Holiday Cybersecurity Guide
- Why Linus is right (as usual)
- How to read newspapers
- Some notes about the Kaspersky affair
- Some notes on the KRACK attack
- "Responsible encryption" fallacies
- Microcell through a mobile hotspot
- Browser hacking for 280 character tweets
- 5 years with home NAS/RAID
- People can't read (Equifax edition)
- State of MAC address randomization
- ROI is not a cybersecurity concept
- On ISO standardization of blockchains
- Announcement: IPS code
- Why that "file-copy" forensics of DNC hack is wrong
- Query name minimization
- Top 10 Most Obvious Hacks of All Time (v0.9)
- Is DefCon Wifi safe?
- Slowloris all the things
- Defending anti-netneutrality arguments
- Burner laptops for DEF CON
- Yet more reasons to disagree with experts on nPetya
- NonPetya: no evidence it was a "smokescreen"
- A kindly lesson for you non-techies about encryption
- Notes on open-sourcing abandoned code
- What about other leaked printed documents?
- How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner
- Some non-lessons from WannaCry
- How to track that annoying pop-up
- I want to talk for a moment about tolerance
- Houston we have a problem!
- Some notes on Trump's cybersecurity Executive Order
- John Oliver is wrong about Net Neutrality
- Hacker dumps, magnet links, and you
- Some notes on #MacronLeak
- FBI's Comey dangerous definition of "valid" journalism
- "Fast and Furious 8: Fate of the Furious"
- Mirai, Bitcoin, and numeracy
- Pranksters gonna prank
- Assert() in the hands of bad coders
- Some confusing language in the 0day debate
- FBI: what to look for in the Trump/AlfaBank connection
- Some notes on the RAND 0day report
- A note about "false flag" operations
- Only lobbyist and politicians matter, not techies
- Some comments on the Wikileaks CIA/#vault7 leak
- Journalists: How hacking details matter
- Some moon math
- Some notes on space heaters (GPU rigs)
- A quick note about iconoclasm
- Border Digital Safety for Journalists
- Skillz: editing a web page
- You don't need printer security
- 1984 is the new Bible in the age of Trump
- Uber was right to disable surge pricing at JFK
- Is 'aqenbpuu' a bad password?
- The command-line, for cybersec
- About that Giuliani website...
- NAT is a firewall
- No, Yahoo! isn't changing its name
- Notes about the FTC action against D-Link
- Profs: you should use JavaScript to teach Computer Science
- Dear Obama, From Infosec
- Your absurd story doesn't make me a Snowden apologist
2016 104
- Some notes on IoCs
- IoT saves lives but infosec wants to change that
- "From Putin with Love" - a novel by the New York Times
- That anti-Trump Recode article is terrible
- Some notes on a Hamilton election
- Orin's flawed argument on IP address privacy
- That "Commission on Enhancing Cybersecurity" is absurd
- Electoral college should ignore Lessig
- No, it’s Matt Novak who is a fucking idiot
- The false-false-balance problem
- Comments for my biracial niece
- How to teach endian
- Yes, the FBI can review 650,000 emails in 8 days
- In which I have to debunk a second time
- Debunking Trump's "secret server"
- Configuring Raspberry Pi as a router
- Lamers: the problem with bounties
- Politifact: Yes we can fact check Kaine's email
- Yes, we can validate the Wikileaks emails
- Some notes on today's DNS DDoS
- Cliché: Security through obscurity (again)
- Why cybersecurity certifications suck
- Trump on cybersecurity: vacuous and populist
- WTF Yahoo/FISA search in kernel?
- What the Yahoo NSA might've looked for
- The Yahoo-email-search story is garbage
- No, Trump's losses doesn't allow tax avoidance
- Some technical notes on the PlayPen case
- Beware: Attribution & Politics
- Why Snowden won't be pardoned
- Review: "Snowden" (2016)
- What's the testimonial of passwords?
- A quick lesson in Political Correctness
- Notes on that StJude/MuddyWatters/MedSec thing
- Notes on the Apple/NSO Trident 0days
- Another lesson in confirmation bias
- A lesson in social engineering: president debates
- Bugs don't come from the Zero-Day Faerie
- EQGRP tools are post-exploitation
- Hey lawyers, I'm not your client
- National interest is exploitation, not disclosure
- I gamergate Meredith Mciver
- NYTimes vs. DNCleaks
- My Raspeberry Pi cluster
- Use the freakin' debugger
- Reverse Turing testing tech support
- Tesla review: What you need to know about charging
- Ethereum/TheDAO hack simplified
- Scanning for ClamAV 0day
- No, Musky, Feudalism is best for Mars
- Instrumenting masscan for AFL network fuzzing
- My fellow Republicans: don't support Trump
- Drumpf: this is not how German works
- From scratch: why these mass scans are important
- Doing a 'full scan' of the Internet right now
- Hiroshima is a complex memorial
- The EFF is Orwellian as fuck
- Technology betrays everyone
- Freaking out over the DBIR
- Vulns are sparse, code is dense
- Satoshi: how Craig Wright's deception worked
- Satoshi: That's not how any of this works
- Touch Wipe: a question for you lawyers
- Whos your lawyer
- My next scan
- Defining "Gray Hat"
- No, Internet should be capitalized
- Some notes on Ubuntu Bash on Windows 10
- tl;dr of LambdaConf drama
- Sometimes techy details matter
- How to detect TrueCrypt blobs being passed around
- Some other comments on the ISIS dead-drop system
- Comments on the FBI success in hacking Farook's iPhone
- How the media really created Trump
- I'm skeptical of NAND mirroring
- There's no conspiracy behind the FBI-v-Apple postponement
- Why we are upset with the NYTimes Paris terrorist article
- No, you backoff on backdoors or else
- Can the Apple code be misused? (Partly Retracted)
- Code is expressive. Full Stop. (FBIvApple)
- Captain America Civil War -- it's us
- An open letter to Sec. Ashton Carter
- Early Internet services considered harmful
- Band-Aids over Basics: Anti-Drone Bill Revisions Compound Earlier Missteps
- The disingenuous question (FBIvApple)
- About McAfee's claim he could unlock iPhone
- Some notes on Apple decryption San Bernadino phone
- We've always been at war with Eastasia
- Fscking Visual Studio Code JS Hello World
- Hackers aren't smart -- people are stupid
- Nothing says "establishment" as Vox's attack on Trump
- Twitter has to change
- Lawfare thinks it can redefine π, and backdoors
- They are deadly serious about crypto backdoors
- Is packet-sniffing illegal? (OmniCISA update)
- Some notes on the Norse collapse
- Net ring-buffers are essential to an OS
- How not to be a better programmer
- Flawed From the Start & Missing the Mark: Georgia's Proposed Anti-Drone Legislation
- Some notes C in 2016
- The Schelling Game
- Powerball lessons for infosec
- In defense of Paul Graham's "Inequality"
- Mythical vuln-disclosure program
2015 111
- Trump is right about "schlong"
- Where do bitcoins go when you die? (sci-fi)
- Force Awakens review: adequacity
- All app developers should learn from WhatsApp-v-Brazil incident and defend against it
- No, you can't shut down parts of the Internet
- Policy wonks aren't computer experts
- Some notes on fast grep
- Joking aside: Trump is Unreasonable
- Tesla is copying Apple's business model
- Why "Force Awakens" will suck
- NSA needs more EFF hoodies
- First Internet ecommerce was at least 1990
- Some notes on the eDellRoot key
- We should all follow Linus's example
- The Godwin fallacy
- Prez: Rick Perry selling his mailing list
- Prez: donation numbers
- Yes, the CNBC moderation was biased
- OMG, the machines are breeding! Mankind is doomed! DOOMED!!!
- Dumb, dumber, and cybersecurity
- Ethics of killing Hitler
- Car hacking is as fake as the moonlanding
- Biden vs Risk Analysis
- DEF CON drink-off -- for science!
- DH-1024 in Bitcoin terms
- Infosec is good people
- Jeb Bush is a cyber-weenie
- Prez: Candidate synchronization
- I gave $10 to every presidential candidate
- Zerodium's million dollar iOS9 bounty
- Some notes on NSA's 0day handling process
- There are two sides to every story
- Maybe with less hate
- How to hack my Tesla
- What's that drama?
- Some notes on satellite C&C
- Helping refugees would enrich ourselves
- Review: Rick and Morty
- Why licensing wouldn't work
- Yes, they just droned a hacker
- About the systemd controversy...
- No, this isn't good code
- On science literacy...
- A lesson in BitTorrent
- AshMad is prostitution not adultery
- Trump is right about the 14th Amendment
- Notes on the Ashley-Madison dump
- A quick review of the BIND9 code
- Infosec's inability to quantify risk
- My BIS/Wassenaar comment
- Software and the bogeyman
- More ProxyHam stuff
- How to build your own ProxyHam
- ProxyHam conspiracy is nonsense
- Some notes when ordering Google's Project Fi
- CyberUL is a dumb idea
- How would you use Lua scripting in a DNS server?
- Because dossiers
- Should I panic because Lastpass was hacked?
- How to code: lesson 27
- How we really know the Sunday Times story is bogus
- Intel has 4 processor lines
- What's the state of iPhone PIN guessing
- Uh, the only reform of domestic surveillance is dismantling it
- Understanding TSA Math
- Ulbricht's judge punished him for political dissent; you should find this outrageous
- Some notes about Wassenaar
- EFF and intrusion software regulation
- This is how we get ants
- Our Lord of the Flies moment
- Those expressing moral outrage probably can't do math
- Revolutionaries vs. Lawyers
- NSA: ad hominem is still a fallacy
- Some brief technical notes on Venom
- How to fix the CFAA
- Ultron didn't save the world
- Review: Avengers, Age of Ultron
- Some notes on why crypto backdoors are unreasonable
- The hollow rhetoric of nation-state threats
- Solidarity
- Masscanning for MS15-034
- Should billionaires have to disclose their political contributions?
- Scalability of the Great Cannon
- Stop making the NSA the bogeyman of privacy
- No, 75% are not vulnerable to Heartbleed
- The .onion address
- Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub
- War on Hackers: a Clear and Present Danger
- Message to Errata employees
- x86 is a high-level language
- What ever it is, CISA isn't cybersecurity
- GitHub won because it's social-media
- No, the CIA isn't stealing Apple's secrets
- Some notes on DRAM (#rowhammer)
- Cliché: Safen Up!
- Exploiting the Superfish certificate
- Extracting the SuperFish certificate
- Technical terms are not ambiguous
- Explaining the Game of Sony Attribation
- A lesson in the corrupt press
- Nobody thought BlackPhone was secure -- just securer
- Some notes on GHOST
- You shouldn't be using gethostbyname() anyway
- Needs more Hitler
- Drums of cyberwar: North Korea's cyber-WMDs
- Notes on the CIA spying case
- Obama's War on Hackers
- A Call for Better Vulnerability Response
- Platitudes are only skin deep
- Anybody can take North Korea offline
- The GoP pastebin hoax
2014 135
- That Spiegel NSA story is activist nonsense
- Dear Leader's Lesson in Confirmation Bias
- Ask a nerd
- Sony hack was the work of SPECTRE
- The FBI's North Korea evidence is nonsense
- I just bought a ticket for The Interview
- What they miss about Uber/Lyft pay
- Notes on the CIA light-torture report
- All malware defeats 90% of defenses
- FYI: Snowden made things worse
- EFF: We've always been at war with EastAsia
- The Pando Tor conspiracy troll
- That wraps it up for end-to-end
- Don't mistake masturbation for insight [NOT SAFE FOR WORK]
- This Vox NetNeutrality article is wrong
- Voters are jerks
- Adding protocols to masscan
- Appropriate Halloween costumes
- No evidence feds hacked Attkisson
- The deal with the FTDI driver scandal
- Review: The Peripheral, by William Gibson
- FBI's crypto doublethink
- Some POODLE notes
- Standards are a farce
- Don't sign that CFAA petition
- Response to Kathy Sierra
- Wget off the leash
- Six-month anniversary scan for Heartbleed
- Who named "shellshock"?
- Understanding the HP split
- Two Minutes of Hate: Marriot deauthing competing WiFi
- Opt-in for upcoming Heartbleed results
- Reading the Silk Road configuration
- Right-winger explains what's wrong with ComputerCop
- The shockingly obsolete code of bash
- Do shellshock scans violate CFAA?
- Many eyes theory conclusively disproven
- Shellshock is 20 years old (get off my lawn)
- Bash 'shellshock' bug is wormable
- Bash 'shellshock' scan of the Internet
- Bash 'shellshock' bug as big as Heartbleed
- EFF, Animal Farm version
- Hacker "weev" has left the United States
- Rebuttal to Volokh's CyberVor post
- What they claim about NetNeutrality is a lie
- Vuln bounties are now the norm
- Masscan does STARTTLS
- Grow up, you babies
- C10M: The coming DDR4 revolution
- That Apache 0day was troll
- No, the CIA didn't spy on other computers
- Cliché: open-source is secure
- Everything can be a bomb
- Um, talks are frequently canceled at hacker cons
- More fun with #TSA
- Omg Hotel Pennsylvania sucks
- EFF lies about NetNeutrality
- JTRIG weekend projects
- Upcoming speaking schedule
- NSA: walk a mile in their shoes
- More XKeyScore code
- Snowden: It's treason then, Master Jedi
- Validating XKeyScore code
- XKeyScore: regex foo
- Jamming XKeyScore
- Reading the XKeyScore-rules source
- XKeyScore: it's not attacking Tor
- The character assassination of Keith Alexander
- SCOTUS's new Rummaging Doctrine
- Supremes strike down cop dramas
- Riley v California: support cloud privacy too?
- 0day market conspiracy theories
- PR will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes
- 300k vulnerable to Heartbleed two months later
- Well, that's it for Cards Against Humanity
- Products endorsed by cybersec experts
- Why it had to be Swift
- Telsa hasn't really open-sourced their patents
- Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?
- No, you can't remotely turn on phones
- WordPress: unsafe at any speed
- Greenwald's extremism damages the cause
- Kinsley vs. Greenwald: it's about principle
- FBI will now record interrogations
- How to wiretap a country
- EFF: some are more equal than others
- 300k servers vulnerable to Heartbleed one month later
- No, McAfee didn't violate ethics scraping OSVDB
- Transparent IPv6 in socket APIs
- Fun with IDS funtime #3: heartbleed
- Clapper muzzles supporters not critics
- No, Glenn Greenwald did not win a Pulitzer
- Heartbleed: Pointer-arithmetic considered harmful
- xkcd is wrong about "free speech"
- Heartbleed: I'm thinking BIGNUM
- CloudFlare Challenge writeup
- No, the NSA didn't make us less secure (heartbleed)
- Weev freed (for now)
- No, we weren't scanning for hearbleed before April 7
- Why heartbleed doesn't leak the private key [retracted]
- 600,000 servers vulnerable to heartbleed
- Yes, you might have to change some passwords (#heartbleed)
- Using masscan to scan for heartbleed vulnerability
- What the heartbleed bug looks like on the wire
- New Service Offering from Errata Security: SATAN-as-A-Service
- A traditional cybersecurity company
- We may have witnessed a NSA "Shotgiant" TAO-like action
- Witty Worm: no seed population involved
- Witty 10 Years Later
- Weev’s lawyers appear in court
- MH370 must've been cyber-hacked
- Newsweek myth busted: "disk space is cheap"
- Airgapping Tor
- Newsweek: I'm not Satoshi, either
- Game theory: cheating at bitcoin mining
- RSAC Keynote: support your local sherif
- C programming: you are teaching it wrong
- If anything, Bitcoin is inflationary
- The thing to know about JavaScript
- No, Bitcoin value hasn't dropped to $250
- That "trollers are sadists" story is bogus
- Bitcoin QT weirdness
- You should probably call your senator
- FirstLook.org fails at security so far
- I tried but could not get my phone hacked (without cheating)
- That NBC story 100% fraudulent
- DoS is not DDoS
- JavaScript: the one true language
- Masscan supports SCTP
- BTC 0.1 for 'masscan' logo
- Masscan: diagnosing slow transmit speeds
- Why Snowden belongs in jail
- Freaking Infrared: How Does it Work?
- Video tells children it's ok for TSA to molest them
- Why we have to boycott RSA
2013 130
- Masscan: designing my own crypto
- Masscan does ARP
- Target: just 'cause it's 3DES doesn't mean it's secure
- Trolling: what is it?
- Snakeoil vs. bounties
- What good are lead lined rooms?
- How to disable webcam light on Windows
- No, you've been correctly using "styrofoam"
- Threat level: puce
- CCC, 100-gbps, and your own private Shodan
- DoD address space: it's not a conspiracy
- How we know the 60 Minutes NSA interview was crap
- Literally the nicest thing I’ve ever done
- Mandela was a great man
- Swartz: wiring closets explained
- isowall: an isolating firewall
- #badBIOS features explained
- What to do on Halloween...
- Third Circuit Court giggle
- "The Fifth Estate": a consensual hallucination
- That DLink bug (masscan)
- Baconizing: how the NSA collects buddy-lists
- We've always known Columbus was a bastard
- FAQ: from where can I scan the Internet?
- How the high-wizard Mordaine invented NoSQL
- What's the max speed on Ethernet?
- Fun with IDS funtime, part 2
- Silk Road: caught by the NSA?
- Fun with IDS funtime
- I'm scanning udp/161 (SNMP) right now
- I'm scanning udp/53 right now
- TouchID defeated: what does it mean?
- How Weev's prosecutors are making up the rules
- BBC's nonsense tech story
- NSA's Fort Belvoir and Star Trek
- Masscan: the entire Internet in 3 minutes
- We scanned the Internet for port 22
- Fingerprints can change
- Finger tip prints are not fingerprints
- The first rule of NSA club...
- No, the NSA can't spy on arbitrary smartphone data
- Tor is still DHE 1024 (NSA crackable)
- Cyberwarfare is like sniping: "If you don't have DOPE you don't have a shot"*
- Microsoft: a different shade of blue
- Nasdaq is neither in New York nor on the Internet
- A gentle intro to Dubstep
- Why Facebook can't pay the bounty -- but should anyway
- Legalizing Bitcoin may drive it further underground
- Why aren't we demanding Gen. Alexander's resignation?
- Swartz was indeed persecuted, not prosecuted
- 10 years of Blaster: a retrospective
- Witty hubris
- The Rob Test: 12 Steps to Safer Code
- When did we start trusting bad code?
- Anonymity Smackdown: NSA vs. Tor
- NSA FOIA fail is fail
- DefCon network analysis vs. NSA
- There's more to the pressure cooker story
- DefCon cabby lessons: insurance
- No, the NSA can't track phones when they are "off"
- Randomized TSA screening is stupid
- NSA denies my FOIA request
- How the Glass hack works
- Is security a "super" right that trumps all other rights?
- The increasing cyberization of the NDAA
- Thanks EFF for outlawing code
- DEF CON fed uninvite: not everything is political
- Scanning the Internet
- I'm hacking your website
- Unwanted access
- SilentCircle and technical debt
- NSA hacking Chinese: it's self defense
- A Glass FAQ
- I survived Google's re-education camp
- Even Microsoft has to pay for it
- Upcoming revelations speculations
- NSA poll: You are reading the numbers wrong
- Oaths, conscience, and honor
- Libradar: Is Edward Snowden libertarian?
- NSA is wrong, not evil
- Vote for my short story!
- Reconciling PRISM claims
- If we can shoot them, we can cyber them
- Those who have not read Orwell are doomed to repeat him
- Welcome to Echelon 2.0
- Manning trial: looking up serial numbers
- Manning transcripts: day one
- Smart or Dumb: The OSX update saga
- Haswell and cybersec: it's about the crypto
- BitCoin is a public ledger
- Video geeking: Revolution and biometrics
- Don't drone me, bro
- Myth: buying in bulk
- Apple's profits: 70% tax rate
- Star Trek 2: warning - you can't unsee it
- Nobody reads the ToS -- not even those who write them
- @AP hack: the stock market did not "plunge"
- A wonkish look at bitcoin economics
- How to Dress Like a Cyber Warrior OR Looking Like a Tier-Zero Hero
- Let me hadoop that for you
- Ubuntu low-mem install for VMs
- No really, use the 5th Ammendment
- Code, philosophy, integer overflows
- Cyberwar: you lack imagination
- Assassination of citizens: why we care
- The debate over evil code
- Context matters: we only appear to be blackhats
- Speech codes are evil
- Ruby on OSX 10.8 followup
- Multi-core scaling: it’s not multi-threaded
- Custom stack: it goes to 11
- Unlearning College
- Scalability: it's the question that drives us
- Silent Circle and inexperienced protocol parsing
- Ruby 1.9.3 on OSX Mountain Lion with Mac Ports and RVM
- 1996 was the year scalability changed
- Our children are doomed
- Risk analysis v. Downtime
- The NYTimes article was content free
- NYTimes and more Rainbow Table nonsense
- 10 years of Slammer: one retrospective
- Mega and Encrypted Cloud Deduplication
- Aaron's Law: repeal CFAA rather than amend it
- I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
- Witchcraft is not a crime
- Review: The Hobbit, An Unexpected Silmarillion
- Cybersec-cliché: process
- State sponsored attack: a howto guide
- Notes on the TURKTRUST fiasco
- Don't mess with the Google
2012 101
- Predictions for 2013
- Occupy Journalism
- A lesson in memes
- Microsoft is toast, here's why
- You are committing a crime right now
- SOPA: let's not let Republicans weasel out of this one
- The hacking of a general's mistress
- Why voting machines suck
- Theory: “impact on the crowds”
- Hack the vote
- A lesson in math … and risk
- Sandy and the tragedy of collectivization
- Why Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney
- Randomizing port scans, part two
- A question for crypto/math peoples
- Scalability is a systemic anomaly inherent to the programming of the matrix
- Bill and Melinda Gates deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
- Awareness monkeys are a pox on humanity
- The fog of cyber and government lies
- RAID6 or die
- There was no Georgia cyber-war
- ICYMI: 0-day leaks from IPS
- An open letter to Senator Rockefeller
- The know-nothings of cybersecurity
- Judge correctly rules WiFi sniffing legal
- JavaScript is a real programming language
- How the FBI might've been owned (12M Apple records)
- Hackers on a plane: who has jurisdiction? (legal)
- New Java 0day
- These guys want to reform the ISC2/CISSP
- Common misconceptions of password cracking
- Pentesters: Amazon EC2 or GPUs for password cracking?
- The deal with passwords
- Sexism vs. Journalism 101
- Software networks: commodity x86 vs. network processors
- Who will fight for me?
- A bit of IDS history
- An Anti Sexual Harassment Policy
- No, "hacker" really does mean "hacker"
- Sexual harassment policies: education please, not threats
- Review: "Virtually True" by Adam Penenberg
- Learn to read Wikipedia! Part 2
- Learn to read Wikipedia!
- The tl;dr version of Moxie's MSCHAPv2
- GPS spoofing
- OMG WE NEED THOSE STINKING BADGES
- Who invented the Internet: evolution or intelligent design?
- Nexus7 Kindle vs. Amazon Kindle Fire
- Employee training
- Myth: that secret coffee slush fund
- NAS buying criteria for the home cloud
- SSDs: avoid SandForce controllers
- Stupid NAS error (ignore this post)
- Marissa Mayer: Why CEOs make so much money
- Fukushima: final report
- More leap-seconds, not fewer
- Microsoft Surface: because the iPad is an existential threat
- Falsehoods programmers believe about networks
- Norton v Olson: A review of a review
- Thunderbolt cables are bidirectional
- LinkedIn vs. password cracking
- Confirmed: LinkedIn 6mil password dump is real
- Chinese/military backdoor: Microsemi and Skorobogatov respond
- Tuning Linux: TCP hash entries
- HP dm1z $350 perfect for BackTrack 5r2
- Bogus story: no Chinese backdoor in military chip
- DNS vs. large memory pages (technical)
- At scale: gigabyte page sizes? (technical)
- We are all Byron Sonne
- You travelers in hotels, please send ViewSource/pcaps
- The hotel wifi is out to get you!!
- Don't let them scare you
- The origin of Ethernet "bypass" switches
- cgi-php: Well, that just about wraps it up for open-source
- There’s nothing evil Google can do with the extra WiFi data
- #CISPA: opt-in is not optional
- Ferret/3.0 (64-bit)
- Code as physical property: interpreting legal descissions
- No SOPA or April Fools: Slashdot is officially dead
- OS/2 wasn’t all that good
- March 31 status: no #Anonymous DNS blackout
- That doesn't mean your employer can use your Facebook password
- The MAPP zero-day protection scam
- I was wrong, wrong, wrong, about McCain
- Notes on Sabu arrest
- The Ruby/GitHub hack: translated
- AT&T provides free user information yet again
- IDApro and Microsoft
- In the Twitter future, everyone will be famous for 15 seconds
- No, #Anonymous can't DDoS the root DNS servers
- UN's website still vulnerable after 4 years
- Wikileaks to go mobile (Not an app)
- My notes on Intel's Transactional Memory (it's like a cmpxchg64b)
- Some IDS comments
- Why we have jobs in cybersec
- January 18: SOPA blackout day
- This message will self-destruct in five seconds.
- Multithreaded teaches the wrong lessons about multicore
- Internet is indeed a human right
- Passwords: uniqueness, not complexity
- Predictions for 2012
2011 67
- Easy instructions for boycotting GoDaddy over SOPA
- Freakonomics vs Cybersecurity
- Quick review of the Kindle Fire
- Cloud Computing is a Commodity, not a Utility
- iPhone 4S for Sprint performance below par
- DefCon speakers guide to #OccupyWallStreet hand signals
- Scanning the Internet
- How geeky am I
- Independent reporting of #OccupyWallStreet
- @Anonymous's war against the New York Stock Exchange
- Brookfield Properties responds re: #OccupyWallStreet
- October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month -- or is it?
- Protesters wanted to get arrested on Brooklyn Bridge
- I was just threatened by #OccupyWallStreet protesters
- Thinking on the margin (Economics)
- CAPTCHA hell
- Finally, a Responsible Disclosure policy
- What the heck is ISO-TSAP?
- Catastrophic failure for certifications of the APD
- Validity of most-common-password lists
- Comments about the $200,000 BlueHat prize
- We already know you are a sellout, we are just negotiating price
- White-hats are on the side of law, but not order
- dm1z and MacBook Air: a quick pre-review
- The ethical problems of the CISSP and (ISC)2
- It’s just an analogy, get over it
- Those who don't know the state-of-the-art are doomed to repeat it
- Undersea Cable Map
- Don’t get sucked into conspiracies
- Space Shuttle: good riddance
- Chronic Threats: SQL injection
- Take a bow everybody, the security industry really failed this time
- My own Grandpa Simpon moment: The Cloud
- What does cyberwar look like?
- Password cracking, mining, and GPUs
- A Weiner Schnitzel
- I got a bitcoin!
- Amazon Cloud Music Player
- The iPad revolution
- Why cybersecurity tests fail
- Microsoft's "Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure"
- Email disclaimers are not pointless
- So what's wrong with optimism?
- No, it really is "groupthink"
- Transactive Memory Systems: an answer to "groupthink"
- A pre-review of 'breaking_in'
- Government Didn’t Create the Internet
- How to protect yourself from future "Epsilon" breach
- Anatomy of a Twitter worm ("Profile Spy")
- Well, that's it for Bit.ly (SCRATCH THAT: MAYBE NOT)
- "Cyber" and "hacker": I’m taking them back
- Verifying the Comodo Hacker's key
- Interview with ComodoHacker
- The Comodo hacker releases his manifesto
- A brief introduction to web "certificates"
- No reason to believe Comodo attack came from Iranian Government
- Risk management: what do it mean?
- Fukushima: Too soon for hindsight?
- Japanese WiFi Stumbling
- Thunderbolt: Introducing a new way to hack Macs
- What's the deal with deleting data from flash drives?
- Why security is so frustrating
- What happened to "World Domination 201"?
- I'm already hating the IPv6
- Kill-switch: Egypt vs. the US
- Don't get trolled by the World's #1 Fraud
- Comment on "Layer 8: Connecting the risk dots."
2010 50
- Random notes on Wikileaks vs. Amazon AWS Web Service
- Cablegate: Wikileaks still sucks
- Is iPhone identifiable on WiFi network?
- TSA: you can't make this stuff up
- I was just detained by the TSA
- TSA caught lying
- Web 2.0 Report Card
- A discussion at SecTor on Rogue Secure Development
- Re: FireSheep
- Security B-Sides Atlanta - October 8th
- Free (as in beer) wireless pentesting class
- Adobe misses low hanging fruit in Reader
- Apple's secret "wispr" request
- A False Sense of Security
- Third generation Kindle released
- DLL exploit not a job for secure coding programs
- UN's website still vulnerable after 3 years
- Battle of Barbie v. Bratz - Round goes to Bratz (and employees)
- Supreme Court Bilski Decision Watch - Coming Monday?
- iPad hack vs. OWASP Top 10
- Cyberwar is fiction
- Microsoft has good security, but it's not enough
- "Popular Highlights" on the Amazon Kindle
- Technical details of the Street View WiFi payload controversy
- More "the air is full of packets"
- You may not need an SDL
- Exploiting the business cycle
- Some Large Website Please Do This Study
- "That's not the lesson!!" Lessons unlearned from the Blippy CC number exposure.
- Vuln Disclosure is Rude
- What kind of company is Apple?
- This Week in Boston: SOURCE Boston and Security B-Sides
- Buffer overflow attack on YouTube! TGIF!
- How did Wikileaks decrypt the video?
- "Collateral Murder": why Wikileaks sucks
- Legal Alert: Court Slaps Back at FCC "Net Neutrality" in Comcast Case
- The First Steps to a Career in Information Security
- Errata Security releases the results of the survey on secure coding practices
- Latest Intel processor security features
- Tech Savvy House Hunting?
- POLL - What is your experience with security in the Software Development LifeCycle?
- Nehalem vs. IDS
- Kindle DX vs. the iPad
- More on Twitter.
- Twiguard update week 4 and final week.
- IE 0day failures
- Twiguard update week 3
- Its awesome how accurate twiguard is at
- Decrypting USB flash drives is easy
- Twiguard update week 2
2009 68
- TwiGUARD update
- Daemon: Don't mess with John Carmack
- Xmas: netbook gift
- Shodan scares me
- Ironic...
- Xmas: to Kindle or not to Kindle
- Xgiving: Fixing the TV
- Climategate hack used open proxies
- Hacker exposes global warming researcher (Climategate)
- 10 Facebook Don'ts
- Law & Tech Geek Alert: Future of Software and Technology Patents in Supreme Court's Hands
- How to change iPhone passwd
- Brazil outage NOT caused by hackers
- Windows 7 includes soft-ap
- Call Spoofing: So easy, even famous people do it!
- Peter Principle
- Hack
- Hon Hai = Foxconn
- No Downloads Barred: Net Neutrality Fight Steps Into the Ring (Again), FCC Proposals Facing a First Amendment TKO
- Red flags at the doctor's office
- TwiGUARD tracked the HowToHack incident
- Tweet Theft Spam
- So use DMCA Counter-Claim!
- Intel’s Atom vs. Cybersecurity
- The Sins of the FSF
- $169 Eee 900 disposable computer
- SQL injection not sophisticated
- Clear(tm) WiMax
- UN's website still vulnerable after 2 years
- Astroturfing AV: When the wolves guard the hen house
- @30k feet
- The Ex Factor: Preview
- Heres how we do that voodoo that we do (iPhone Hacking)
- The Economist on the Kindle
- Asynchronocity and Internet Scale
- Why people don't get security
- Why deep packet inspection is faster
- No killer robots soon
- Sidejacking poem
- Scan 3rd party websites for safeness
- How to measure download speed
- Star Trek Sucked
- How to stop the swine flu
- Cyberspies, #2
- Tales of hacker tools Vol 1: View Source
- RSA 2009
- Why "cyber commands" fail
- Ode to 50cent
- SSL acceleration
- THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!
- Has the power grid been penetrated by enemies?
- Dallas FBI raid, part 2
- Why SSL sucks, #458738
- FBI takes down Dallas ISP
- GPU cracking for $250
- New Firefox 0day in WinDBG
- Deep packet inspection is not the same as snooping
- SOURCE Boston
- Setting up Firefox for Hamster
- Hamster 2.0 and Ferret 2.0
- Review of Kindle 2
- The Importance of Being Canonical
- Internet > Hygiene
- Coding Heresy: shellcode in software developement
- Password cracking vs. CPU throttling
- Quick someone explain what branding and
- Rats, foiled
- Versign's Bad Response to the MD5-SSL Crisis
2008 113
- Not all MD5 certs are vulnerable
- I am not dead AND guessing redacted documents...
- Lori Drew vs. Rule of Law
- Naked
- Graphics cards are for cracking
- WPA2 is not next on the chopping block
- Errata Security endorses McCain
- WPA is NOT obsolete
- Google's "obfuscated TCP"
- TCP Selective ACK considered evil
- TCP DoS (probably) real
- The latest low blow for Apple
- How Sarah got her hack on
- The Perfect NetBook: Eee 701 2G Surf
- LookingGlass Vendor of the week: Google
- Spammers like Aarvarks more than Zebras?
- Google vs. SideJacking, round 7
- Oh the zealots will be on the warpath...
- Booting OSWA on Eee PC with SD flash
- Reporters "hacking" at BlackHat
- The DNS is falling
- AxBan Signature List v. 4
- Iphone 3g 3g coverage iphone
- Why you have to reboot your router
- New Firmware
- Wireshark "TurboCap"
- DI #4
- GMail now shows IP address log
- Dan Peck
- DI #3
- DI #2
- Oooohh, more cocktail parties at the airport Hilton...
- No such thing as bad press
- Code auditing: the abstract vs. concrete
- The internet just causes problems
- New threat to physical security
- Errata Security Twitter
- More fodder for the arms race...
- And now, something new...
- Random musings...
- Blizzard's Two-Factor Authentication
- The continuing saga of McAfee malware
- Blizzard
- AxBan 1.5
- Worm source code...
- Aren't PHDs put in cages...err..classrooms...
- Httpwww
- Tenables new patch diff.
- Yes YOU can own a gun
- You cannot believe what you see...
- Telecommuting spies?
- 70's Redux, finding pools
- Funny article
- Can antivirus be a virus?
- Windows Mobile Registry Viewer
- Apple malware
- Why isn't Satan invited to Oreilly conferences?
- Ruby vulns: its been 3 years in the making
- Verizon 500 breach report
- Yellowcake and SCADA
- New AxBan feature...
- New AxBan: 1.0.0.4
- 0day Flash vuln
- Summercon ths weekend
- LookingGlass Vendor of the week: Trillian
- Apple still not playing nice with researchers...
- AxBan 1.0.0.2
- Big week
- Call for Beta Testers
- New Team Member at Errata Security
- ActiveX is dangerous...
- Thats it...
- Start date for IPS
- Hrm...GTA4 seems to not like Linux...
- George Ou is back...
- Thank god i thought i was only person
- Racing to Zero
- Automatic patch-based exploit generation
- Why the "Pentrate and Patch" idea is not only great, but also essential: A response to Ranum and Lindstrom
- Ferret on the iphone..
- Ole Pete responds...
- I have it on good authority below is an actual picture of Pete Lindstrom
- Httphexblog
- Update on Apple and QuickTime
- LookingGlass Vendor of the week:ATT
- LookingGlass 1.1
- Queens wear brown...
- Safari and Apple get Owned...Again...
- Welcome to the arms race…
- The LookingGlass Vendor of the Week: Adobe
- New LookingGlass version: 1.0.1.0
- The lookingGlass vendor of the week.
- Httpwww
- New Looking Glass
- A quick chumby post.
- Secret APIs not a conspiracy
- More information
- Unsafe at any speed
- omg Microsoft releases protocol specs lol
- There is no Cable Cut Conspiracy
- Un...umm...traceable...understandable...battery acid...
- Hacking Flash Memory
- Why the OLPC promotes terrorism
- Hex.lore
- A break for work...
- Intresting
- New Apple Quicktime Problem – UPDATE
- More SideJacking
- New Quicktime Flaw, this is not Deja Vu
- SCADA the easiest target...
- Anybody that spends anytime with me
- Terminator TV Show
- Wow
2007 154
- Things to do on Christmas break...
- MSN messenger built-in AV
- Me, the office, a green laser
- New Apple Problem
- Bellsouth DNS goes belly up...
- The thing that makes candy sweet...
- IDA Pro 5.2
- More RTSP
- IDA Pro 5.2
- Apple Quicktime RTSP update
- Who doesnt need break for 219mph cars
- Al Gore's movie website hacked...
- New RTSP Quicktime flaw affects both OSX and Windows
- A roundup of stuff...
- postmortem and ontime...
- Httpdocs
- USRP goodness
- New blog has appeared that should
- Firewall that protects all nations
- The Video..
- Funny Vista Tricks with ASLR
- Errata goes to the races...
- OK
- Evil Rob Graham Fact #3
- Evil Rob Graham Fact #2
- Password Cracking vs. Core2/Athlon64
- Evil Rob Fact #1
- Vote which of us gets tazed
- If you want to hack something today...
- I'm bored today...
- What you packing?
- The Cost of Security
- Google Protection
- iPhone Shellcode by Metasploit
- An open letter to my CEO
- An open letter to computer criminals...
- Response to some Bloggers
- I am art
- Past...Present...Future...
- And now...Comedy...
- THE CYBERWAR IS COMING, THE CYBERWAR IS COMING
- SQL injection is surpisingly easy
- SideJacking with Hamster
- Sites confirmed safe from SideJacking
- Congrats Apple!
- Inverse Steganography
- Best Error Message ever
- I am not LMH...
- Corps of Engineers Security
- Super Tuesday!!
- Our first iPhone bugs
- An iPhone post...
- And now...something light...
- The Purple Pill?
- A really good question deserves an answer…
- HD's new groove...
- Niiiice...
- Amero, part 2
- How to become a "security guru"
- Details matter
- This is not cyber-warfare
- Life imitating art?
- Public wifi vs 3G mobile broadband
- Blogging Toorcon/Seattle
- Toorcon Beta
- Liability of reverse engineering
- Apple Update
- Wireless NAC != Wireless IPS: AirTight...Leaks...
- An alternate explanation of the OSI model
- Tom at matasano reporteed this
- Net Neutrality has never existed
- Storm Worm vs. IDS
- After announcement this weekend about
- Say it ain't so Steve...
- Scary Stories...
- News from Microsoft: DNS 0day being exploited in the wild
- Why did the ANI patch take so long?
- More telnet fun..
- ANI 0day vs. intrusion detection providers
- Please stop feeding the trolls
- New SCADA vulns
- Cracking...
- Wifi Beacon Seapage
- Hit-pieces and ethical journalism
- OSX vs Vista...
- A round up of things...
- PayPal security token…not ready for prime time yet?
- Yet more Ferret
- Helping reporter in Bay Area
- Convenient Half-Truths
- Yet more blogging blackhat
- Apple info...and thats all folks...
- More Blackhat...
- Its V-A day....
- Blogging Blackhat
- The Norwich Witch Trial
- Needs more cowbell
- Network Coding, Part 2
- Snort Remote RPC 0day
- Errata loves ebay
- High-performance security appliances
- A new meaning for Denial-of-Service attack
- Update on Solaris telnet issuse.
- Steve Jobs and DRM...
- SANs sticks head in sand over exploits...
- Trivial remote Solaris 0day, disable telnet now.
- Lost became lost...
- Quantum redux
- Blogging RSA
- Root DNS attacked, that's sooooo 20th century
- Warning...Long post on how OSX does not has ASLR.
- Gruber is upset about a Gates quote, not about the lack of security technology in OSX
- BitTorrent curiousities
- More on the Apple wifi blunder OR i am no longer gagged
- More on Apple security Vs. Microsoft Security
- Bill Gates fights back against an evil corp?!?!
- Tennis balls and car locks...
- Blogging on our own blog
- Take it from a man that lived in Boston...
- George Ou's hack gets a marketing name...
- Stop me if you heard this one...So A priest, A rabbi, and Cisco IOS walk into a bar…
- 2007: the year someone will mention 0day to you in a club
- Words can be dangerous...
- Rsa
- You can tell its Vista launch day....
- Ad-Hoc Virus, part 2
- Oakley enters the mobile device security market...kinda...
- Its Cisco again….again…
- A test of Apple’s security response versus Microsoft
- Smart=anti-NetNeutrality, Dumb=pro-NetNeutrality
- The Ad-Hoc WiFi Virus
- When people refuse to use common sense...
- F1 cars go vroom vroom
- Oracle HEV
- Poisoned by the Venom: Silicon Snake Oil:Vol 1 BigString
- The new Uninformed is out
- Myspace Hacking and browser technologies
- Cisco Stuff...again
- Microsoft Patch Release initial analysis
- cool new stuff from Apple
- Ninja-Hackers
- Disclosure ethics apply to BOTH parties
- Cisco Security
- George Ou scores!
- MSRC Advanced Notification & Sales Pitch
- The behemoth awakens…and feeds…
- NetNeutrality == Evil
- re: BitTyrant
- Errata Security in the news!!
- Bluejacking by the Brits...
- All hail your MMS overlords
- Blah Blah Blah
- Entry Point example
- It has begun!!