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Pyramix Cipher

By Ben0xA On June 10, 2013 · Add Comment · In Cryptology, Tools
At the end of 2012 I was doing some research on ciphers and cryptology. I wanted to see all of the different ciphers and learn a bit more on how to identify a cipher. In doing this research I began to think of how I could create my own custom cipher. Looking at all of [...]
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While I Was Away at BSides Detroit

By Ben0xA On June 10, 2013 · Add Comment · In Awareness, Conferences, Education, Security
I just spent 3 days in Detroit with a great group of people at BSides Detroit. J Wolfgang Goerlich (@jwgoerlich), Ryan Harp (@b00st_sec), and Steven Fox (@securelexicon) did a great job of organizing this event. It was my first trip to Detroit and I enjoyed the venue at the Renaissance Center in the GM Building. [...]
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Binary Flipping Fun

By Ben0xA On May 28, 2013 · Add Comment · In Programming, Tools
If you have been following my Twitter stream lately you would have noticed that a good majority of the tweet focus has been on the BSides Chicago / BSides Detroit cross city capture the flag event. I wanted to write about the most recent challenge because I really enjoyed creating it. It was very neat [...]
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May Software Updates

By Ben0xA On May 13, 2013 · Add Comment · In Patch Tuesday, Software
Here is a list of some software that has been recently updated. You may want to add this to your list of updates this week. Software Latest Version Adobe AIR 3.7.0.1530 Filezilla 3.7.0.1 Firefox 20.0.1 Flash 11.7.700.169 Foxit Reader 6.0.2.413 Java 7.0.210.11 KeePass 2 2.22 LibreOffice 4.0.3.3 Malwarebytes Antimalware 1.75.0.1300 PDFCreator 1.7.0 Python for Windows [...]
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Your Blinky Box Won’t Save You

By Ben0xA On May 8, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Education, Security
This morning, going through the morning news, sipping on my coffee and listening to trance music, I saw several articles that are pointing out a new 0-day vulnerability in IE8. This 0-day also has functional code that is publicly available. Not only that, but it’s now in the metasploit framework. I did what I always [...]
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Software / JAVA Updates

By Ben0xA On April 17, 2013 · Add Comment · In Patch Tuesday, Security, Technology
I know we just experienced patch Tuesday last week with updates from both Microsoft and Adobe. However, did you know that there were several other software updates out there as well? Software Current Version Foxit Reader 6.0.2.413 LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 Firefox 20.0.1 Java 7.0.210.11 Flash 11.7.700.169 VLC 2.0.6 I know that there are more entries out [...]
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Removing KBs with PowerShell, psexec, and wusa

By Ben0xA On April 12, 2013 · Add Comment · In PowerShell, Programming, Technology
Well, yesterday Microsoft announced that KB 2823324 was causing some machines to BSOD and has recommended everyone to uninstall this hotfix. They outlined a few options such as: Option 1: Manually uninstall the Security Update Option 2: Incorporate a command line uninstall in a custom script wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:2823324 /quiet /norestart Option 3: Run removal [...]
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In Yer Tubez – Episode 1

By Ben0xA On April 3, 2013 · Add Comment · In Conferences
Here is my very first video cast/log. Whatever. It’s a video of pictures with me talking. Hope you enjoy. The transcript is below the video. [Transcript] Welcome to “In yer tubez”. I am Ben Ten and this is the very first episode. Ah April! For most people it marks the beginning of a new season. [...]
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Security Awareness Education

By Ben0xA On March 19, 2013 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized
Update (3/20/2013): Social-Engineer.org talks about this topic as well. Check it out here. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower There are very few things that will get me upset. We are not talking about mildly irritated. We are talking [...]
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Checking Installed KBs with PowerShell and QFE

By Ben0xA On March 13, 2013 · Add Comment · In Uncategorized
Happy Reboot Wednesday! At least that was what I thought. When over half of our boxes were still alive and humming along this morning without a reboot, I was a bit concerned because I knew that KB2809289 was marked as a ‘Requires Restart’. So, this begged the question, did the boxes actually get KB2809289 installed? [...]
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