Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

Security Finale

I’m back home. The training last week was just awesome. I did get to do an interview with a friend of mine who administers the super computer at Virginia Tech. I will release the interview for LB episode 15.
The malware dissection on day 5 and 6 was quite enlightening. I not only learned about how malware works fundamentally, but also learned quite a bit about the inner workings of IRC and Bots, due to the fact that a lot of malware uses IRC to infect and control systems. Interesting. I also am inspired to set up a honey pot on the inside of my network just to see what I can come up with. I hope to do so next week.
I’m home now, work is chaos, and I have a sick kid. Hopefully things will settle down soon.

Tags: life, malware, training

2 Comments to Security Finale

1. 

   Jealous of your training man, sounds fantastic! Rest up, get that kid feeling better and get back at it.
Eric on March 11th, 2008
2. 

   Howdie Chad,

   Sounds like you had a good time, we where some what warned about honeypot’s last year on my course.

   Just for the fact that if they work out it’s a honey pot, then the hacker can sermise that either you have something worth hiding, and that you have spare resources to boot. Not sure how much i can sympathise with that but like i say, it’s not something that should be done in an afternoon, not saying you would though, but proper planning is important in this, your inviting hackers and bot’s to come play at the end of the day.

   Like to pick your brains on the malware though, sounds tasty

   Finux
Finux on March 12th, 2008

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