Hacker News: thursley

New comment by thursley in "Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem"

thursley — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:30:50 +0000

In my experience this can be caused by a loadbalancer, for example not being able to route (properly) to servers in the pool or a difference in configuration/patch-level between them.

New comment by thursley in "The Heartbleed Bug"

thursley — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:41:31 +0000

Snort IDS rules to detect abuse can be found here: http://blog.fox-it.com/2014/04/08/openssl-heartbleed-bug-liv...

Large botnet cause of recent Tor network overload

thursley — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:44:12 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.fox-it.com/2013/09/05/large-botnet-cause-of-recent-tor-network-overload/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6333499

Points: 79

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New comment by thursley in "NBC.com hacked, serving up Citadel malware"

thursley — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:34:21 +0000

Writeup of the network monitoring service that discovered the infection: http://blog.fox-it.com/2013/02/21/writeup-on-nbc-com-distrib...

New comment by thursley in "USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 can be trigged from a HTML page"

thursley — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:26:07 +0000

This was/is an infamous modem vulnerability: http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?id=10020

It could force a modem to hangup and redial a number.

New comment by thursley in "Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say"

thursley — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:19:16 +0000

More technical details (pdf) on: http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf

Although the naming differs it has been noted on several blogs that it is the same malware.

Critical analysis of Microsoft Operation B71 (Zeus Botnet disruption)

thursley — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:51:35 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.fox-it.com/2012/04/12/critical-analysis-of-microsoft-operation-b71/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832094

Points: 2

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