The trusty old eee pc does not let you down, in fact i retired my old 701 from yesteryear and bought myself a 901 off eBay for about £50. it was the eeePC that the 701 should have been. Yes it only has a 1.6ghz processor, but after a 2gb RAM upgrade and a 128gb SSD upgrade, along with sticking … Read More
Stuff to scare children with!
Ok rather than rant on about what could be done to terrorize small children and give them nightmares, i’m simply going to point you all in the direction of our amazingly talented davethefan and his current project, “SMS Attack” quiet possibly the creepiest music video I’ve seen in a long time. Check out his page for frequent updates as to … Read More
Fiction: Cora – Author davethefan
‘Did you upload them?’ ‘Yep, all 2456 of them.’ ‘Did he see you?’ ‘Just before I jumped, yeah.’ ‘He’ll be looking for you, you know. We’re rare, our type.’ ‘Let him look’ she spat as she stubbed her cigarette out with her boot, smearing it into the trodden concrete. ‘Cora, Cora Bleach.. You’re Phil aren’t you?’ ‘Yeah, how did you … Read More
Fiction: SMS Attack – Author davethefan
Three weeks before the National Elections, a time when all eyes are on the politicians and their behaviour; the scrutiny they are under is intense, they are reminded daily of their popularity polls amongst the public, what the media are saying about them, and of course – what people online are saying about them. Greenflame has being assigned a mission, … Read More
4 Digit Code Cracking
Well the good old yellow pages arrived though the letterbox today, pretty weak booklet with a torn front cover. Oh the joys of living in the arse end of civilization and very few companies to adorn the pages with all of there o8oo numbers to use and abuse. More to the point its not exactly outside hours either, so ringing … Read More
Blocking the whole of china from your server
Well i got sick to death of Chinese script kiddies trying to brute force stuff, i also go sick to death of baidu hammering the living fuck out of the server. I don’t have many Chinese readers (even less now) and i suspect the great firewall of china has taken a dim view of SWAT for a while. So i … Read More
Always keep an eye on log files
Well while I’m setting up and configuring this site, installing fail2ban setting up rules etc. I like to make sure its all working. So i check the logs, yep its banning all of the usual bots and script kiddies. Just bear in mind tho, if you are scanning IP addresses to try brute force your way in to servers please … Read More