Jimmy Ray Purser
A New Twist on Kiosk Hacking
What does eating at Vegan restaurant and attending a four day conference in Waukegan on the external factors influencing paint drying times have in common? Let me be rude here and answer that question with another question; What is...
Pissed Off About Poor Quality
I am pissed off. I am not sure what at so I thought I would start writing and see if I can figure it out. I know who I am pissed at and that is Hewlett Packard (HP). It's not a competitive thing either. I love the competition between...
Port 666
How many Star Trek classic fans are in the house? Man, I just love that show. I honestly believe that is was Star Trek that generated my interest in engineering and of course kept me from getting dates until college, but that's a...
One Cool ISO: Fully Automated Nagios
TV Dinners. Not only is this an ultra cool song by ZZ Top but on the surface of the twenty year turkey in a thirty year old skin it should be a perfect meal for folks on the go. The majority of your food groups are all there, cooked...
Password Cracking with CUDA
There a few milestones in my life that I can look back on and know that I have turned a corner. For example; - When I could no longer recognize the names in the Police Blotter section of the paper; I knew I was older. - When I could...
Delay Tolerant Networking
Having a network that tolerates delays is like wearing a leather jacket on a moped. In this phase of networking where email is too slow, video streaming is 28% on Internet traffic and Public Switched Telephone Networks are being...
Three Better Ways of Doing Networking That We Ain't Doin'
I really enjoy tweaking things to squeeze just a bit more power out of what I already have. If I am building a small-block Chevy engine, over-clocking a server, reprogramming a EEPROM or trimming out a fishing lure, I love pushing...
Planning for the Worst
There always a few phrases that come to mind when folks say one thing and do another. Practice what you preach, Physician Heal Thyself, Lead by example, etc... I have designed many networks all over the world and without a doubt...
Ixia Responds!
I like it when folks are proud of what they do. Not just a silly pride like; "My football team is better yours" (or course mine IS better: The Indianapolis Colts baby!!!) But the kinda pride that folks can back up with fact and take...
Yersinia: Coolest Layer 2 Hacking Tool
It's really hard to beat layer 2 hacking to really mess stuff up. While folks are up at layer 4-7 messin' around with this socket or that scripting vuln, I am down here at layer 2 all fat, dumb and... fat. Now most folks have...
VOIP Eavesdropping with OREKA
Eavesdropping VOIP is the equivalent of "Just wait until your Father gets home" on the network. When folks talk about VOIP security they tend to immediately go straight to eavesdropping without considering the more valuable and...
Old School Hacks: War Dialing with WarVox
The more things change the more they seem to stay the same. I have been working on a few Bluetooth 2.1 hacks for the past couple of days and in the end I thought that while they worked they weren't very interesting. The...
Low Rent Firmware Hacking
I just like to hack stuff. It doesn't matter really what it is, I just enjoy the challenge of figuring out how stuff works and how to bypass certain controls. I am not trying to be a whank about it and post how to steal a case of...
How to Keep Intrusion Detection From Sucking
I have never been a fan of fishing with plastic worms. Not because it's a real worm Vs fake worm purest argument, heck I've fished with TNT before as a kid. Now that's a real hoot! It's because I have never ever caught a single thing...
Day Four RSA 09: FIN
It's over. RSA 2009 San Francisco is in the can. It was a good show, the RSA staff does a nice job organizing this event with good speakers, good training and a centralized place to find food and hotels. Which is cool because Cisco...
Day Three RSA 09: SHOWTIME!
Any Paul McCartney and Wings fans out there? I really like their music although I think personally Paul McCartney is a real wanker. But man that wank can sure write some good tunes! On the album (dating myself here) "Wings Live over...
Day Two RSA 09: Confessions of a Booth Troll
Feet hurt, back aches, conference center food making the worst smelling farts I have let since the Tennessee Chili Cook Off of 1999. Welcome to Day Two of RSA San Francisco. The show floor was moderately crowded and the RSA staff did...
Day One RSA 09: Scouting Mission
Is it me or do trade shows need to change? I am at RSA 2009 in San Francisco and just got back from a little floor walking. Now I like the RSA format: Whole bunch of good training and then a vendor area to score freebies. On the...
Safe HEX
I was mainly raised by my Grandmother as punk kid growing up in the hills of Tennessee. Of course she had a ton of catchy sayings that probably would have made her a bumper sticker or refrigerator magnet millionaire. One of my favs...