Author Archives: Stephen Reese

New blog header image

I would like to take a moment and thank the guys over at Xen for allowing me to use their “light bike” logo for my blog’s header image. Please take a moment to checkout their site for your virtualization needs.

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Debian backup script updated

A quick note that I updated my Debian backup script located here: https://code.google.com/p/debian-update-script/. I have fixed a few bugs that became apparent with the release of Debian 6 “Squeeze” and made a few other tweaks. I have also added the … Continue reading

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Blocking evil with the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET

While experimenting with EMET I decided to put together a little presentation demonstrating how it can be used to prevent exploitation of a known threat to Acrobat Reader. The presentation first demonstrates the exploit using Metasploit, provides some high level … Continue reading

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Pseudo Gmail address obfuscation

I was hunting around for a way to create email aliases for mailing-lists and whatnot. It is a little disappointing to learn that there is not away to create true aliases with Google’s Gmail. You can create aliases if using … Continue reading

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Insecure Library Loading Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Note this is an older post that I am migrating from another blog I previously maintained. Metasploit has already provide a nice write up of the pwning, I mean testing the vector http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/08/exploiting-dll-hijacking-flaws.html. It does involve a bit of prep … Continue reading

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Keeping your hardware safe and avoiding the evil maid

This installment is about keeping your notebook and other technology items safe. I was recently asked what the Defcon locks were for that I have been distributing with the new notebooks. I jokingly said to keep people from taking your … Continue reading

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Creating VMware VMDK files from DD images using Live View

While watching some Florida football today I decide to figure out how to mount/run a DD image in VMware Workstation. My image mounting skills were a little lacking so Google it was. I found a ton of great examples that … Continue reading

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How I got started in information technology

Every once in a while someone asks me how I got started in working in the information technology realm. Usually someone that is not in the industry or they are interested in working with computers as a career and are … Continue reading

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Finally migrated from Blogger to WordPress

I haven’t posted in a while because Blogger finally did away with their FTP/SCP publishing ability meaning if I wanted to continue using Google’s Blogger platform I would have to allow them to host my content for me. I don’t … Continue reading

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Redirect Blogger URL using Mod Rewrite and shell scripting fu

Blogger is doing away with the option to host your blog via your own host and migrating everything to the cloud. I wanted to have the option to continue hosting my blog on my own server even though as of … Continue reading

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