I found the perfect place for research – a beach. It is in the north of Germany in a small town Pelzerhaken. In the evening and in the morning when you are almost alone on the beach it is just perfect for some work. I think I found a new bug and a vulnerability in CISCOs Firepower 6.7 in combo with a grey tunnel. I asked a friend for doublecheck them. When he confirms you will read about it soon in CISA 😉
- Bureaucracy: A Hacker’s Delight and an IT Security NightmareBureaucracy: A Hacker’s Delight and an IT Security Nightmare. Ah, bureaucracy! A term that evokes as much enthusiasm as a dentist appointment or cleaning out the attic. While many of us slog through paperwork, there’s a special group that finds it delightful: hackers. Believe me, the adventure that IT security in the jungle of bureaucracy entails could easily be a bestseller! Imagine this: A hacker sits comfortably in his dark, monitor-filled lair. He takes a sip of his favorite coffee and grins widely as he scrolls through endless documents and forms. Bureaucratic errors are like Easter eggs just waiting to be found. While most of us get gray hairs from a marathon of forms, hackers see it as a goldmine. That is the reality not a film.
- 26.07.2024 DDOS attack on New ZealandSome admin in NZ had a very busy day 🙂 DDPS with 100mb to 1gbs connections in a coordinated way. Umbrella or the Skynet-Shield group had started with counter attacks after 20 minutes with up to 10gbs. 10 minutes later everything was over.
- Quick FIX for the Microsoft CrowdStrike bugIt is just a quick fix for the CrowdStrike bug when your system is currently facing the blue screen of death. Just reboot into the safe mode or WRE go to: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\Crowdstrike Search for the File: C-000000291*.sys Delete this file Reboot
- CISCO Firepower FMC 100MB upload bugCISCO Firepower FMC 100MB upload bug. Somehow CISCO always manages to surprise me with unnecessary bugs that shouldn’t be there. Especially if these bugs are old and could be easily fixed by CISCO.
- IP-blocklist specifically for NAS securityIP-blocklist specifically for NAS security. I created a nice little feed with automatically updating IP addresses that specialize in attacking NAS devices
