The DMZ

AviD

13:00

@Flyk waddaya mean flagging non-duplicates?

and what you have against old people?

Flyk

since I'm now looking at tools and many of these are closed

@AviD closed questions that are not dupes? (we keep dupes as pointers to valid questions?)

@AviD they're slow and don't keep up with the program :p

AviD

@Flyk ahh you didnt mention closed.

@Flyk heh

Flyk

make good zombie diversions

AviD

@Flyk in general, I would say yes - IF they dont have any value whatsoever.

THAT SAID

there is sometimes value in keeping around closed q's as signposts for what will get hammered.

Flyk

I don't understand what you're saying. I'll only flag questions if they need a tag removing and they're closed but not duplicates

AviD

13:02

there is always some meta q that pops up and says "hey questions of type X shouldnt be closed, look there are 5 of them and 3 are open" vs "umm well there are 30 of those q's and only 3 are still open... make that 2... 1..."

Simon

@AviD Look at me being awesome!

AviD

@Simon @Flyk already made you obsolete.

Simon

wat

M'vy

0

Q: Information Security on a network

You are an IT Security administrator in a banking organization. Your organization hired an outside IT firm to do a proof of Concept for new equipment which is a computer based system. This equipment is bulky and after importing it from Europe, it’s delivered direct to organization’s premises, for...

information

a.k.a. please do my homework pls

Simon

@M'vy I appreciate the use of "pls".

M'vy

13:09

@Simon yeah, the last one was specifically tailored for you

AviD

@M'vy notice the tag. That damn tag.

Flyk

I really don't like the content on your site

Simon

@M'vy tyvm sir

M'vy

@AviD Ahahahahahahahahahahaha

AviD

I cant even figure out what tag WOULD be appropriate.

M'vy

13:10

@AviD stfu ?

AviD

heh.

M'vy

Seems like a good tag to me :)

AviD

I got it.

M'vy

Ready for automatic burnination :P

I guess the guy did just read&write the text form the textbook

AviD

@M'vy I dont think so. I think it was a straight copypaste, no reading involved.

Hi Liz, welcome to Information Security. Your question is pretty wide open, and there are numerous options with numerous aspects each with numerous tradeoffs to consider. Perhaps if you could elaborate a bit on the actual network architecture, requirements, and the real causes for this, instead of just copypasting a homework assignment. — AviD ♦ 35 secs ago

M'vy

13:14

@AviD nice one

I like what you did there

AviD

thank you, I try

snark tastes better when its subtle

Rоry McCune

@AviD @M'vy expertsmind.com/questions/miss-301141998.aspx

it is quite literally copypasta

M'vy

oooh nice catch @RоryMcCune :)

AviD

ha, nice.

Rоry McCune

the only question is, is it the same person who asked on that site or someone wanting to get paid for an answer...

M'vy

13:18

funny auto-complete does not show RoryMcCune when you type more than 1 letter

AviD

@RоryMcCune lucky she didnt give us the limits of 1.5 pages and practical demo...

Rоry McCune

@M'vy ahh that's my anti-ambiguous Rory'ing filter kicking in

to stop people @rory 'ing me :)

when they really meant @RoryAlsop

raz

@RоryMcCune

Rоry McCune

@raz yeah 'cause that's not amgibuous :)

M'vy

Did you put in some silly character ?!

raz

13:19

@RоryMcCune

No I just typed R and tab completed

Rоry McCune

@M'vy yarr

the o isn't an o

@raz yeah but if you put @rory it doesn't get me , which is what I was trying to avoid

raz

ah gotcha

Flyk

how would you tag a question that is about reinstalling an operating system to remove nasty

M'vy

@Flyk duplicate?

Simon

@Flyk reinstalling-an-operating-system-to-remove-nasty

M'vy

13:25

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Q: Is making a clean install enough to remove potential malware?

Is formatting the disk and reinstalling the system from scratch (to Ubuntu) enough to remove any potential hidden software spyware, keyloggers etc.? Or can something still persist installed in the bios or something like that? What to do then? To be clear, not concerned about common malware. The...

malware keyloggers spyware

Flyk

@M'vy duping it doesn't resolve the tagging issue though does it

M'vy

@Flyk well that's right.

Flyk

...?

M'vy

Maybe dupes should be removed from tags alltogether

Flyk

thanks for your hypothetical musing, doesn't really help right now though

M'vy

13:28

yeah... still thinking

AviD

@Flyk incident-response

Flyk

I am the wrong person for this job, as far as I'm concerned, malware, viruses, trojans and spyware are all basically the same thing

have fun

M'vy

@Flyk it's never too late to learn :P

AviD

@Flyk as far as we're concerned, too

Flyk

I don't want to, the subject doesn't interest me

AviD

13:31

the diferences, while significant, are typically academic.

M'vy

And to be honest with you, many person do think the same

well, for Trojan it's simple: it's a vessel

it can transport nasty :)

Flyk

noooo

I had a go, your posts have given me a headache, I don't want to know -.-

M'vy

Timeo danaos et dona ferentes

Simon

trololo lolo et lolo trololo

AviD

@M'vy français sont pires

Flyk

13:43

@AviD ...

M'vy

@AviD hehe

AviD

how the hell is snapchat worth 15 billion $ ???

M'vy

how the hell is snapchat worth a penny ?

AviD

though yeah, I guess thats not worse than whatsapp.

Simon

@AviD Nudies are worth a lot buddy.

AviD

13:47

but seriously guise, there is no bubble! and dont mind the guy behind the curtain!

Flyk

@AviD you think they really delete their data? All those naked pics

* not that I've ever used it for that

Simon

suuuuuure

Flyk

er

let's look at this objectively

I don't trust men, so my first reason that I'd never do it is I'd have nobody to send them to anyway

secondly, it's easier to defend against losing something that doesn't exist, so such a picture wouldn't ever get taken

thirdly(!)

AviD

@Flyk that is such a misogynistic statement

you cant send them to women?

Flyk

@AviD why would I send naked pictures of myself to women?

I have an entire circle of female friends for when I hate men that much

AviD

13:51

@Flyk why not?

Flyk

you know what, my second point is probably the most important

men can be secondly

thirdly, why the hell would you ever even do that

AviD

The Best Reason Not To Share Nude Photos

►

M'vy

Well a secret is something known by a single person.

Flyk

that too

@M'vy once a secret is digitized, it's really only a matter of time before it's no longer a secret

it's a "when", not an "if"

M'vy

@Flyk could be an awful lot of time though

Flyk

13:55

@M'vy that's basically a middle management response

M'vy

@Flyk Well I mean you could digitise it and be the only one to know. And use proper encryption.

Flyk

@M'vy are you advocating security through obscurity?

M'vy

@Flyk nope

well kindof I guess

What I want to say is once someone else knows, everyone else know

Flyk

which is basically the point I'm making

M'vy

Not quite. I could tell you: I have a secret.

And even, it's in this file encoded with that particular algorithm.

So unless you force me to reveal the secret (or the secret secretting the secret :D ) it would remain secret

AviD

14:06

@M'vy or force your computer

or your keyboard

or your backup server

M'vy

well indeed. But that's not the point.

AviD

I think it was exactly her point

but I would correct her statement to say "a matter of time and/or money"

M'vy

@AviD well yeah it's definitely a matter of time. My point was it could be a very long time.

AviD

@M'vy and my point is that if somebody is interested enough to spend enough, it won't be.

the best kept secret is the one nobody cares about

ask @Simon, he knows

Simon

Yeah, just like the secret about me doing it with yo mama.

AviD

14:11

yeah, noone cares.

M'vy

@AviD yeah well.

Flyk

14:30

@AviD it's fine, you wouldn't want to buck the status quo by being somebody who actually agrees with me

AviD

@Flyk oh boo frikkin hoo. nobody likes me! suck it up.

I usually agree with technical statements you make, as scary as that concept sounds.

Flyk

;/

AviD

and to be clear, in this case, I WAS agreeing with you. I was just clarifying a point on which you were not 100% accurate (but still correct).

Flyk

I reject your agreement on account of you using "i" instead of "I"

Simon

@Flyk Still haven't gotten a picture of your setup.

AviD

14:33

i dont know what your referring too

Flyk

@Simon might as well give up on waiting for that

M'vy

@Simon No it's naked

Simon

ffs

I see donuts EVERYWHERE.

M'vy

@Simon what does this change from every other day?

Flyk

sorry, last time I linked a picture of anything real life for me online, it was an opsec breach

so... nope

Simon

14:35

@M'vy Usually they aren't mean donuts.

AviD

@Flyk see, thats what snapchat is for

M'vy

Hum, average donuts are the worst.

Flyk

@AviD no it's not

AviD

@M'vy heh. nurd

Rоry McCune

@M'vy surely average doughnuts are, by their definition, average

Simon

14:44

I can't believe that there are people in 2k15 still misspelling the word "donut".

AviD

@Simon he's not misspelling donut

he's spelling a different word, doughnut

different food item, different word

different food group, even

doughnuts are 90% carbs

Simon

Nobody has a damn clue what you're talking about when you say those are 2 different things.

AviD

donuts are 100% heaven

@Simon have you tasted the difference??

Simon

IT'S A DIFFERENT SPELLING, HOW CAN I TASTE THE DIFFERENCE OF A SPELLING?

AviD

@Simon ITS A DIFFERENT FOOD

Simon

14:45

NO IT'S NOT

AviD

are potato chips and corn chips the same thing?

or better yet, chips and fries

Simon

I HAVEN'T SAID A SINGLE WORD SINCE YOU STARTED TO SPREAD THIS NONSENSE, IT'S TIME TO STEP UP

AviD

(make that crisps and chips for the brits)

@Simon WHICH WORD WILL YOU SAY THEN, DONUT OR DOUGHNUT?

Simon

Did you miss the whole thing when @ThomasPornin quoted something about "doughtnut" being the original spelling and then he changed it to "donut" to make it easier for foreign people?

AviD

@Simon apparently

Simon

14:47

"he" being whoever was commercializing them

AviD

also, apparently at some point in history people got confused and started associating two different, yet vaguely similar, foods

Thomas Pornin

@Simon "foreign" being "American" in that case.

AviD

@ThomasPornin I think thats the opposite

Simon

@ThomasPornin Wasn't it an American trying to make it easier for whoever in Europe?

AviD

"foreign" means "not American". Dont you know anything?

Thomas Pornin

14:48

@AviD Hey, I am translating words in a sentence written by Simon. Give me some slack.

AviD

@ThomasPornin lol

Simon

pls

AviD

admirable, yet ultimately hopeless, even for you.

Thomas Pornin

@Simon Ah yes. Indeed. Well, not exactly -- it was for "foreigners" (from the point of view of a New-York-based entrepreneur) but not specifically "European foreigners".

Only "foreigners ready to buy an automated doughnut-making machine".

AviD

@ThomasPornin ah, so anybody west of the Mississippi, or south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Simon

14:51

Yay, I managed to remember something useless again!

AviD

those crazy uneducated hicks.

David Freitag

16:42

@AviD Now that's a tautology if I've ever heard one.

Simon

17:21

@DavidFreitag Do you like chill beats?

David Freitag

@Simon I'm listening to some super chill monstercat right now

Simon

@DavidFreitag soundcloud.com/memorax/geck-o-wondering-memorax-remix

David Freitag

@Simon Awww yeah super chill.

Rory Alsop

17:36

Really?

Cyberlympics?

schroeder

Cyberific!

Jeff Ferland

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Q: Found suspicious php files in upload folder

I found 3 php files in a htaccess-password-protected upload folder on my server: 1. default_folders.php 2. factory.php 3. HMAC.php Each of them contains a variable string, eg: <?php $sKe6sG2L4YbX='T9chqQ'^~EPSe0Kwz;$ydQI='w0`hmP'|'1DZK&a';$EG='^DI'^'3(~';$un3E4gl='w~o'&/*Jo'. ...

passwords php attacks injection file-upload

Not sure what to do with that.... is there any possible answer besides, "Be advanced enough to walk through this one step at a time?"

... use a debugger?

Simon

@JeffFerland THANK YOU FOR QUICKLY CLOSING IT, FFS!

See @AviD, this is the kind of mod you should be.

Keep trying, son.

schroeder

17:51

LOL - "Help me deobfuscate this code - oh, but first let me truncate it..."

lol - kids these days

David Freitag

18:08

@RoryAlsop Hahaha, nice

David Freitag

18:19

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