Comments on: Botmaster Robert Matthew Bentley AKA LSDigital Sentenced

By: Changlinn

Changlinn — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:49:07 +0000

Another one down, this sentence seems fair.
As for the kid who got 38 years, that is just ludicrously wrong, he should barely get a slap on the wrist.
My sister back in the day “accidentally” hacked into her schools fileserver and told the teachers she found the next days Bio test, they changed it and gave her an award for being honest. This of course was the 80’s so she probably just found the file and opened it.

By: grav

grav — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:51:03 +0000

@ Bogwitch

Thanks for the clarification

By: Bogwitch

Bogwitch — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:18:52 +0000

Sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. I have different PRIMARY hard disk drives for different operating enviroments in removable caddies to facilitate swapping easily.

By: grav

grav — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:22:36 +0000

A cool article for DarkNet would be one on DeepFreeze.
I’ll post some cool stuff about it, but I have got to go right now.

By: grav

grav — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:21:20 +0000

A cool thing I found out while browsing the internet was to test unreliable (shady) software on a virtual machine. It isn’t too hard to set one up and as a result, all your data is safe.

I don’t know if just storing your h4×0r stuff on a different HDD would do anything, because if a virus infects you – or a worm – won’t it travel to all of your hard drives? I was under the impression that if one hard drive was infected, all of them would soon be. Please correct me.

What I hate is when you are dling from a reliable source and you are blocked from opening a .zip or .rar because of a possible “threat.”

AntiVirus- can’t live with it, can’t live without it!!!

: )

how do you do the cool smilies? The graphics ones? Just ctrl-c ctrl-v?

By: Bogwitch

Bogwitch — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:56:10 +0000

Pretty much any AV product will detect pentest tools as malware. It is worth noting that some tools are trojanised, it is up to you to determine what any particular tool is doing. When testing your tools, run them with an adjacent host running wireshark (or similar) to ensure that the tools are not communicating in ways that you were not expecting/ desiring.
Run the tools with something like InCtrl5 to make sure they are not modifying your system is ways you do not want them to.

Naturally, I would recommend using a ‘dirty’ machine for your tools, not a production machine, or at least have separate HDDs for pen testing and work (or gaming!) It is likely that you would want your pen-testing machine to run without AV, just be aware that you have no AV and act accordingly. (Read: Don’t surf for porn/ game cracks etc.) That said, it is likley that your pen testing machine will be running Linux, isn’t it?

By: Navin

Navin — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:24:41 +0000

which antivirus were U using?? I gotta keep away from dat one…currently using AVG, and it definitely is a pain in da a$$ as far as protecting my tools goes…..but then that’s what antivirus companies aim for right?? Eliminate all tools that can be used to crack passwords or attack servers…..Most if not all these tools are after all created for pen-testing!!

By: grav

grav — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:52:49 +0000

@ Navin,

I agree with you. Keeping stuff hidden from your antivirus is a pain in the @$$ : )

Once I did a scan on my D: drive, something that I haven’t done in a long time, to find out that half my stuff was deleted!!!
The real threats were still there and my “tools” were gone.

Needless to say, I switched my antivirus that day…

By: grav

grav — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:49:11 +0000

I think that if that kid that got 38 yrs in prison could hack into his school system, he could have done better than an “F” in class. Unless of course, he just did the “look over at your teacher’s password as he/she is typing” method : )

Kudos to him, kind of dumb to use spyware and then access the computer FROM HOME probably without a string of around the world proxies.

At least use an internet cafe…

By: Navin

Navin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:37:06 +0000

I agree Sleepy, I’ve almost grown used to my antivirus yelling at me (almost reminds me of my mom), pleading tht I delete a certain piece of software coz it recognises it as a virus…. There was once a age when U cud atleast store source codes in text files, compile the required tools when needed and then simply delete the files…but now antivirus programmes even read through txt files for strands of “malicious-looking” code…

But frankly, i feel that such counter-attacks will only be possible on skiddies mainly because of the difficulty in back-tracing proxies tht most pro’s use!!