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Well, everyone this is a big decision for me.  I have a lot of things going on, and well, I have no time for Flyninja anymore.  After a few years of being up, having the opportunity to meet a ton of new people, it is time for me to move forward to new horizons.

Flyninja will no longer be updated from this moment on.  Have a good one everyone, it was a nice run while it lasted.

May the force be with you all.

-Circuitbomb

Administrators are keen to patch their web applications when new exploits are fully disclosed.  Not all do this of course, but a good administrator keeps up with closing as many vulnerabilities that can be found in their installed software.  Using web-shells on a target machine is a great way to operate and manipulate the things you need to do.  However, there are some advancements in finding these vulnerabilities.  On a well updated system, the life of a web based shell can be short.

You cannot always rely on the applications vulnerability to keep uploading or including your shell.  If it is patched, you’ve lost your access to that system most of the time.  How can you keep your attack persistence on machine?  How can you try to ensure you will be able to gain access again, if in fact the vulnerability is closed, and your shell, deleted?
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Well, since I was introduced to a hacker named John/802.11/WiFi long ago (less than two years ago) my life has gone from Clandestine-Hide-in-My-Box Hacker to Social-Hacker-from-Hell.  I was asked to go to a hacker conference that I’d never heard of on The Very Angry Toad.  I met Circuitbomb and GraphiK as well as Myself248 (who has since become a mentor of sorts).

Later, I was given the helm of Cheer10s: A Flyninja Project and Underground Syndicate. It became my sole job to keep news up for the Hacker-minded.  I started going to school for Electronics Assembly and Engineering (since moving on with a certificate to another school Computer Programming).  I staffed at Notacon5 and The Last HOPE as security.

Now, I’m working on some projects that are still in the planning stages as well as planned for Notacon6 in the background stage because I couldn’t afford to go.  VeryAngryToad is working to come back online and Flyninja is making a major breakthrough.  Cheer10s is no longer a Flyninja Project being self-supporting.  I am also a VIP at GoNullYourself.org as a contributor to projects yet to come.

So, since I met John/802.11/WiFi (Whatever the fuck he called himself!!!) and he called me to VAT, he’s turned me around.  He’s turned me into a Hacker that isn’t afraid to fight for my rights or isn’t afraid to say “I’m a Hacker and I Hack Shit and You’ll Never Stop Me and Thanks for the Secks Early 90s Printer and……” I’ll never shut up at this pace.

John Sidney McCain III, the Republican candidate for President of the United States of America

Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States of America

Remember this on November 4th, make the right choice.

I recently lot my  Windows Vista after installing Service Pack 1.  I had a Ubuntu Install, so I didn’t totally lose my computer, but I decided that I since I was dual booting, I would need to reinstall something. While Ubuntu Heron took a day for me to download on a DSL modem with Windstream in Georgia, it only took me exactly one hour to install download Linux Mint on a CD with Cox Cable Internet.

I’ve been without Windows for five days.  I have further internet functionality.  I’m able to use Flash v.9 without the problems that Ubuntu gave me during the installs of it.  The package manager is brilliant.  It came with a steampunk style background (one of my favorite themes).  I was able to listen to Limewire downloaded CDs without the errors given with Ubuntu.

I love living without Microsoft.  And the increased satisfaction of a fully open sourced OS PC is great. (My other lappy is a Eee with Linux).

Now, if I could only live my life never going into a Wal-Mart or a McDonald’s. lol

Well, since Cheer10s is a Flyninja Project, I have to talk a little about what’s about to go down with it here.  I’m moving to Tucson, AZ to be with my girlfriend and to live in a condo I’m buying.  I have to get access to the Interwebs.  So, Cheer10s will probably be slow for a few days.  Sorry about that.  Once I get interweb access at the condo (after the 15th) I’ll speed it back up to it’s optimal pace.

Cheer10s.com is a news syndicate for the hacker community. Originally started by Circuitbomb, Maboroshi, and bad-brain as an e-zine, it turned into a repository for news relevant directly (and not so directly) to the hacker community. While not directly a “hacker site” we frequent hackers, computer security types, and general readers interested in the hacker mentality.

Happy Fathers Day to all the Dad’s and Father’s to be out there!

Sit back relax or go and play some golf, rock on a guitar or get plastered!

The interwebs today, is very similar to the wild west of the past. There is much unchartered ‘area’ associated with the internet today. Thus, we have a little game of cowboy and sheriff going on. The ‘good’ versus the ‘bad’ – heck, I might as well toss in the ‘ugly’ because who are we kidding – those of you reading this is are probably pretty ugly. You nerd.

Back on track, this post is a bit more advice opposed to informational or intellectual content. Heck, who am I kidding? I am far from intellectual.
The parellel I was trying to draw is between a hacker and the cowboy we once knew, you know, the Clint Eastwood kind of Cowboy. One who plays by the rules, but only those defined by him; because not only does he not agree with the rules which surround him, he may even oppose them. Does this make an individual wrong or bad? Far from it – if anything, it makes the misunderstood. However, one must realise; one who is often misunderstood, often has his intentions mistaken for that of which they arn’t – something which may be, by definition, wrong. Again, we won’t debate the right and wrong scenearios here; We will just base this on the general social moray of the average hacker.

As an individual who is trying to enter the professional world, to make a career out of my knowledge and actually do work which I enjoy – I have personally never done anything outside that of ‘formal law’ – does this make me a pussy? Naw, I believe in a way, it just makes me smart. I can say that I have been tempted many times, but often negated my original ideas for that of which is more ‘ethical’. I would much rather work with computers opposed to flipping burgers because the sheriff caught me.

So what I am trying to say, is before you go and ‘play’. Please realise the risks associated with this aforementioned play date, I believe that this should be the first thing an individual learns before he wants to take a crack at hacking. Remember, hacking is NOT associated with illicit activities, rather that of innovation, ideas and progress.