Flare-On Challenge 2016

Never even heard of it until a friend of mine told me they're working for FireEye (none of the fun stuff though). Looking up their blogs, I found they ran a yearly FLARE-ON challenge. So I thought I'd give it a check out. http://2016.flare-on.com/ - if anyone wants to participate!…

November summary

November calmed down on the weekends, but weekdays have been interesting. Started new job end of Oct. Got paid is good. Celebrated my wife's would-be 40th birthday (She passed away of cancer at 38) with Mexican (She loved Taco Bill). Got myself 2x6TB WD Black drive for my first paycheck…

Bits of life

* Looking at getting a new job (2nd round interview) * Trying out some Facebook Plugins * Helping out 2 people with webpages (Wordpress) * Entrepreneurial hosting company * Smite * Depressed :-/ [facebook_like_button][facebook_send_button]

New Job

Started new Job on 2nd March 2015 - Fresh new start on the mundane side, followed by a magickal start on 24th March 2015. Tried out for SkyDragons Smite team, but that didn't go too far A new chapter is starting for faerie.cx as well.

Another day, another exploit

Today, it's more of the same - Wordpress/Drupal gets to be the flavour of the moment with a memory DoS via XMLRPC (again). This time, not a brute force but a memory expansion bomb. Full details below: http://mashable.com/2014/08/06/wordpress-xml-blowup-dos/