SYNful Knock – Analysis by FireEye

FireEye

This is an analysis of SYNful Knock by the people who discovered it – Mandiant/FireEye. From my reading of the article, it seems that the router implant was handcrafted on a router-by-router basis. Also, the original attack seems to require…

Do you have SYNful Knock installed?

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Cisco has provided a method of determining if your router has the SYNful Knock router implant. ========================================================= http://blogs.cisco.com/security/offline-analysis-of-ios-image-integrity   Cisco Blog > Security Offline Analysis of IOS Image Integrity Vafa Izadinia | February 23, 2012 at 1:01 pm PST Forensic…

Cisco’s response to SYNful Knock

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This is Cisco’s offical response to SYNful Knock. ============================================== https://blogs.cisco.com/security/synful-knock Cisco Blog > Security SYNful Knock: Detecting and Mitigating Cisco IOS Software Attacks Omar Santos | September 15, 2015 at 12:06 am PST Historically, threat actors have targeted network devices…

Liquid Nitrogen drink

Some people are just soooo stupid. Apparently, it is becoming a bit of a trend in some UK pubs to sell a liquid nitrogen based  drink. It seems that liquid nitrogen is added to whatever alcoholic drink one is having…

Penang Asam Laksa

Just for the hell of it, I went back to The Kopi Shop again for dinner. I had noticed an asam laksa listed on their menu and I was sort of curious about it. You see, I had an asam…

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM :)

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Yeeee Haaah!! I have received my first spam message!! Akismet identified it first go. Here’s the text of the spam I received. “Hello, I think your website might be having browser compatibility issues. When I look at your blog in…

Oh no, not another venomous snake!!!

According to sites.google.com, Australia has over 140 land snake species and 32 sea snake species. Of those 140 land snakes, 100 of them are venomous. We already know that ALL 32 sea snakes are venomous. đŸ™‚ Of the 100 venomous…