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PasteLert v2!

April 9, 2012

The Quick and dirty: New PasteLert lives at http://andrewmohawk.com/pasteLertV2/ Downloads: » Interface -> http://andrewmohawk.com/pasteLertV2/src/pastelertv2_Interface.zip » Cron Tasks -> http://andrewmohawk.com/pasteLertV2/src/pastelertv2_Cron_Tasks.zip » Scraping Script -> http://andrewmohawk.com/pasteLertV2/src/pastelertv2_Python_Scraping_Script.zip And of course if you want everything -> http://andrewmohawk.com/pasteLertV2/src/pastelertv2_all.zip Overview My linode has been pretty much falling over due to the previous version of the pastebin alerts for a number of…

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Joomla 2.51 Blind SQL Attack

April 6, 2012

<responsible_disclosure> Before i discuss this, let me just say that the bug has been patched (was in 2.5.1) and at the time of writing this Joomla is already 2 increments away – 2.5.3 is currently available. </responsible_disclosure> Overview So back in the dark ages of my programming life I, like many people who started coding,…

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FireBridges, proxies that burn!

February 26, 2012

Overview I’ve always been semi interested in botnets/trojans and targetted attacks and the way they get their data in and out and how the command and control centres work. One of the things i’d usually do is see if I can determine where the traffic is going from the bot (infected machine) and this…

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Pastebin DoS + PasteLert

February 24, 2012

Hey guys, I saw the pastebin guys put out a list of the IP addresses that have been attacking them for people to check if they were, I wrote a quick little script to test this at: http://andrewmohawk.com/pastebinAttack/ Secondly, i see pastelert broke with the new GUI change on pastebin, I’ve fixed it on mine…

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Automated Water System

November 14, 2011

So this is going to be a rather strange post as at the time of writing its not actually implemented, the system is built in a waterproof container as well as the networking setup and so on. I figure that since I will only be able to get another Arduino and ethernet shield at a…

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Automated Moisture Sensor

October 7, 2011

I’ve always been harping on about growing my own tomatoes and other veggies and earlier this year i attempted it for a while.Unfortunately with me going away for various conferences and generally being a forgetful lout i managed to kill many many plants! What i wanted was: What I got was: So recently I was…