Over on #vulnhub, there has been quite a chatter about Brainpan2, a “sequel” to Brainpan, by superkojiman. They’re even offering a 50 GBP award to whoever submits the best write-up! Since I enjoy challenges like this, I took a look at the machine. However, the writeup had to wait …

I recently bought a new printer at home, so my wife could print coupons without manually attaching to my office printer each time (Thanks coupons.com and all the other shady sites that require spyware-like software to print coupons, and often don’t support network printers). I ended up picking …

I was recently fuzzing a bunch of SSH servers, hoping to find some remote code execution in a non-mainstream server. I ended up finding no code execution in the several that I tried, but I did find one pre-auth denial of service in Syax Multi Server 6.10. Try this at home! The vulnerable version can …

A buddy of mine, Mulitia, and I were talking about 0-days, and he mentioned finding one in Hex-Chat, a popular IRC client. It was super low severity, but still neat. If you entered “/server " followed by 20,000 random characters, the application died. I decided to try to make a working …

I’m a customer of Hover for my domain name needs. However, that will be changing because I don’t believe that they take issues seriously. The first security issue I was browsing their site, looking for a new domain, and being the constant tinkerer I am, I entered a single quote into the …

Background I was talking in Intern0t several months ago. AcidGen, from IOActive mentioned that he found a bug in XBMC. I use XBMC quite a bit at home, on various platforms, since it’s extremely wife-friendly. I hit him up, and we started talking. We had a nice Skype conversation, where we …