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Update: DECAF is back!

Well, according to a decafme.org press release, Version 2 is out. It now supports a whole new set of program detection. Seems the big reason he pulled it was due to its phone home functionality, which wasn’t really meant to phone home.

From the press release:“Version 2 is finished. We are now monitoring Microsoft COFEE,…»Read the full article

Bacon Salt

In good time I would have made this post anyways — but I’m going to link to this now! Baconsalt!  They also have Baconaise! Yummy!

Exchange 2003 RPC over https

So I was getting an error similar to this:/rpc/rpcproxy.dll .com:6004 443 – 4 MSRPC 401 (minus ip address)

I searched hi and low, and after editing the IIS rpc ports and double checking the certificate and authentication settings in IIS6 and Exchange 2003, I found this tool: http://www.petri.co.il/software/rpcnofrontend.zip designed for configuring the registry when you…»Read the full article

DECAF down! & IIS 6 0-day

I hope everyone had a good holiday or at least a good few days off!

Well the decaf tool I blogged about a few weeks ago was disabled. The site, http://www.decafme.org/ explains why. Well I’m thrilled he’ll bring v2 out shortly, I was a little surprised that it phoned home with usage logs. The sites owner…»Read the full article

Facebook Account Hacking, Phishing, and Weird stuff from FB Friends

Have you had messages from your friends telling you to look at the video of you from last night? While by now (this was a saved post to write about later…) I haven’t had one in awhile, I was wondering what else other Facebook Phishing attempts you have seen lately. It has got to be…»Read the full article

Decaf Coffee

Most of you probably know about Microsoft’s tool they give law enforcement called COFFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor). I read over at the Internet Storm Center that some researchers released some proof of concept code called DECAF (Detect and Eliminate Computer Assisted Forensics). While, it’s a cool proof of concept evasion tool, I’m curious…»Read the full article

The Great American Hack-a-thon

The Center for Innovation at RIT is sponsoring an event  that is part of the great american hack-a-thon. It appears that this is a nation event put on by Sunlight Labs and it’s great to see RIT taking part in it!

The following projects and more will be worked on:    …»Read the full article