David Piniella

Man, kind of a bummer: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/07/msg00006.html

I spent a few weeks tweaking old sparc boxes to work with FreeBSD and getting to know the hardware and making it work with software that wasn’t originally meant for it was a great lesson.

The Chinese government is not only being deceitful with IP addresses, they’ve also begun cracking down on a mechanism that lets its citizens avoid the bullshit: VPN. Grass Mud Horse!

This action, combined with the DDoS floods, is beneficial to a government that’s intent on isolating its citizens from the free and open Internet. They make it hard to get a packet out of China, but even if you succeed, it’s likely to be blocked by a server that’s been victim of their DDoS.

On the surface, this seems like a good strategy for creating your own private Internet: a network where no packets can enter the west or leave the east.

via furbo.org · Grass Mud Horse.

I’ve been seeing a lot of probes in my logs — mostly search engines, but a fair bit that wasn’t — from China. And here you go.

Around 2005, crooks discovered that the default factory-set master passcodes for the Tranax and Trident ATMs were printed right in the service manuals, which were readily available online. Triton’s master passcode was “123456.”

The manuals urged machine owners to immediately change the passcodes from the defaults, but many of the small business owners who favor the inexpensive, pedestal-sized machines never made the change. That led to an uncommon phenomenon in the world of cyber crime: hacking as a street crime.

via Two Dudes Prove How Easy It Is to Hack ATMs for Free Cash | WIRED.

  The tragedy is not that it happened, but that it keeps happening. But: people. Why not set them with a “must change password on first boot” bit? Because lazy people, that’s why.

Shon Harris – Logical Security, Contributor, passed away last month, Oct 8, 2014.