Terminally Incoherent

Well, it seems that the two machines in the GA office were employed in some extensive port scanning. In fact, they managed to DoS the mailserver so the IT took them off the network. Brilliant! At least I know that I didn’t really show how to do a wide range scan to anyone – so I can’t feel guilty about this.

And I know that my scans did not DoS the mailserver because I did them two weeks ago, and no one complained. I finally got to sift through the nmap logs today, and I have found bunch of goodies. I won’t post anything here for security reasons, but believe me – there are some interesting things out there.

For example, the network printers are just ripe for abuse. Some of them are running their own web servers which host web-based management tools. I was able to access some of these control panels without any authorization. In fact, in most cases I could change any settings I wanted, including the IP of the printer and the default gateway. Scarry! There has to be a way to lock these things down somehow!

Also here is a fun exercise for you – freddie has echo service running on port 7. How do we utilize that to perform a DoS attack? This thing seriously freaks me out.

And could someone please do something about that goddamn open relay on pegasus? Are you people asking for fucking trouble? I’m just waiting for some idiot to get his hands on that smtp server. Open LDAP + open relay SMTP server is a very, very dangerous combination. We will one day drown in spam! Sigh…

Monster Jackson,
originally uploaded by maciakl.

Well, it’s almost Halloween so I figured I post this here. I found this mask on display in a Halloween store on Bloomfield Ave in Montclair. I don’t know about you, but I find it funny that Michael Jackson sits right between the devil and the skull

I mean, don’t get me wrong – the dude is seriously scary. With the falling of nose, bleached skin and the child molesting – if I saw him on the street I would start running So I guess he does fit in the pantheon of Halloween monsters.

Btw, if you want to check out the mask, it is no longer in the window there. They either pulled it from the display, or someone bought it or something…

Early Wolverine Outfit (note the whiskers!) courtesy retroCRUSH

Holly poop on a stick! Is that Wolverine? OMG! What is he wearing! Did you see that mask? He has freakin whiskers on it! I know that first attempt at superhero costume is usually lame, but this is retarded

This was apparently Logan’s very first appearance – way before the X-Men. This was from the Incredible Hulk comic book.

I found it at retroCRUSH among other examples of very bad superhero costume designs.