When filesystems are mounted on a directory, existing files in that directory are hidden and will not be accessible until the mount point is removed. This is a relatively decent way to thwart or slow down online analysis of a system. A recursive listing of files will not reveal these hidden ...

I recently acquired a cheap used Mikrotik RB250GS to play with port mirroring and VLAN tagging. The switch came with the original SwOS firmware which was buggy to the extent that firmware upgrade over the web interface itself was failing. The other method to update the firmware is through ...

Crypto used to refer to cryptography, the study of protecting the confidentiality and integrity of information. It is one of the purest branches of computer security. Theoretical cryptography is almost fully governed by the laws of mathematics and physics. The only breakthrough possible is ...

Timestomping is a favourite topic of red teamers and forensic analysts. They often speak about the tools and powershell commands that can be used to do timestomping. How do these tools work? In the course of developing nTimetools, I read up on the various APIs and the extent of ...

OpenVPN GUI will automatically run the following batch files if it exists. No changes to config file is needed, just drop the batch file in place. Possible privilege escalation if user runs OpenVPN GUI with administrator privileges and uses a VPN config in his home directory. ...

I recently decided to migrate my server cluster's logging mechanism from rsyslog to Splunk. My previous setup was to use rsyslog to centralise all logging onto /var/remotelog/ on a central server. I then configured the Splunk indexer to index both /var/log/ as well as /var/remotelog/, this ...