Re: WaPo writes about vulnerabilities in Supermicro IPMIs

2013-08-15 Thread Kyle Creyts
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional Founder BSidesDetroit

Re: .nyc - here we go...

2013-07-03 Thread Kyle Creyts
king about > this > > non-news now? We all knew about three years ago, at the latest, that > ICANN > > was planning to do this. If we didn't, shame on us. > > > > A > > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > fergdawgster(at)gmail.com > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: looking for documents describing frequent causes for line cuts

2013-05-18 Thread Kyle Creyts
m are really funny) anecdotes are welcome. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:00 PM, staticsafe wrote: > On 5/17/2013 22:16, Kyle Creyts wrote: > > has anyone come by documents containing some statistics regarding leading > > causes for cuts in fiber, power, cable lines? > > > &

looking for documents describing frequent causes for line cuts

2013-05-17 Thread Kyle Creyts
has anyone come by documents containing some statistics regarding leading causes for cuts in fiber, power, cable lines? I seem to remember one which included % cuts due to equipment failure, maintenance, weather, rodents, boring, car accidents, etc. but alas, I cannot find it in my archives.

Re: Is multihoming hard? [was: DNS amplification]

2013-03-24 Thread Kyle Creyts
06 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Kyle Creyts > wrote: > > Will they really demand ubiquitous, unabridged connectivity? > > > > When? > > When the older generation that considers the Internet a side show dies off. > > When your gra

Re: Is multihoming hard? [was: DNS amplification]

2013-03-23 Thread Kyle Creyts
You do realize that there are quite a few people (home broadband subscribers?) who just "go do something else" when their internet goes down, right? There are people who don't understand the difference between "a site being slow" and packet-loss. For many of these people, losing internet service c

Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat

2013-02-26 Thread Kyle Creyts
not have an > organizational need to allow outbound network traffic to Elbonia, then > why the hell are you letting so much as a single packet go there? > > Like I said: at least make them work for it. A little. Instead of > doing profoundly idiotic things like the NYTimes (e.g

Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat

2013-02-21 Thread Kyle Creyts
put in a backdoor that uses commonly available tools. As >>I suspected earlier it's M$ against M$ only. >> >>The downside is nontechnical folks in positions of power often have >>sensitive data on their computers, only know M$ and don't have the >>knowledge to do

Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat

2013-02-19 Thread Kyle Creyts
se excuse my brevity. -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: Gmail and SSL

2013-01-03 Thread Kyle Creyts
re was a connection -- was this the > incident that made Google reassess its threat model? > > Of course, this attack was carried out within the official PKI framework... > > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb > > > > > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Kyle Creyts
agnitude: 5.1 > Date: Monday, December 17, 2012 17:46:48 UTC > Location: central East Pacific Rise > Latitude: -3.9682; Longitude: -104.0375 > Depth: 15.70 km > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Kyle Creyts
a and attempts to data-mine his activity, or some other more legitimate, applicable and realistic take on appropriate cases for desiring anonymity in such a transaction > > -- > Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 > "He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead" > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: The Verge article about Verizon's Sandy Cleanup Efforts in Manhattan

2012-11-21 Thread Kyle Creyts
ther-changing-powers. (yet). > > > Well, they ARE The Phone Company! > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. Yogi Berra > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: 25Mbps vs 4 Mbps

2012-11-21 Thread Kyle Creyts
t; more aggressively in a 4Mbps connection. But this would only matter if the > traffic from my youtube server is greater than 4Mbps, which i suspect > would > be the case. > > The question then is that how does going for a higher BW connection from > the service provider help? > > Glen > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: "authority" to route?

2012-11-15 Thread Kyle Creyts
advice would be appreciated. > > -- > Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 > "He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead" > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...

2012-09-11 Thread Kyle Creyts
(Arrive at the intended destination, that is) On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Kyle Creyts wrote: > +1 > > Announcing a prefix doesn't mean that the traffic to those IPs found > within shall ever arrive. > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Christopher Morrow > wrote:

Re: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...

2012-09-11 Thread Kyle Creyts
the sessions between the > border and internal ... oops, your internal devices bounce with > 'corrupted tables' (blown tables)... you still send your aggs steadily > to the interwebs, wee! > > -chris > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...

2012-09-11 Thread Kyle Creyts
No DDoS or Anonymous attack appears to have been involved. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kyle Creyts wrote: > http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=410 > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Operations Dallas > wrote: >> I thought I saw an articl

Re: Heads-Up: GoDaddy Broke the Interwebs...

2012-09-11 Thread Kyle Creyts
st ~15 minutes I've been receiving complaints about DNS issues. > GoDaddy DNS is apparently b0rked. I'm also seeing a lot of tweets about > their hosting and VPS being down. I'm unable to access the control panel for > one of my customer accounts. > > > -A > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: Color vision for network techs

2012-09-04 Thread Kyle Creyts
Tei: such applications exist, see http://dankaminsky.com/2010/12/15/dankam/ http://www.wpcentral.com/augmented-reality-app-windows-phone-ids-colors-real-world-video http://daily-steampunk.com/steampunk-blog/2012/05/27/augmented-reality-steampunk-and-learing-color-vacuum/ On Sep 3, 2012 5:07 AM,

Re: DOCSIS 3.0 & PPPoE/L2TP compatibility

2012-07-31 Thread Kyle Creyts
n your network and the cable network. i.e. L2TP is how your customers >> are brought to you from the cable network.) >> >> I have no documentation on ARRIS either, so I don't know what they >> can/cannot do. >> > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-04 Thread Kyle Creyts
Tell that to people in the third world without utilities. On Jul 3, 2012 8:32 PM, "Randy Bush" wrote: > > Also, I don't think there is an acceptable level of downtime for > > water. > > coming soon to a planet near you > > randy > >

Re: No DNS poisoning at Google (in case of trouble, blame the DNS)

2012-07-03 Thread Kyle Creyts
and upon further investigation, it seems like there might be an actual organization using a host with that IP... http://www.robtex.com/dns/chatwithus.net.html#shared On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Kyle Creyts wrote: > it actually appears that skywire has a suballocation for that block, >

Re: No DNS poisoning at Google (in case of trouble, blame the DNS)

2012-07-03 Thread Kyle Creyts
...@nic.fr>wrote: > > > > > > What made you think it can be a DNS cache poisoning (a very rare > > >> event, despite what the media say) when there are many much more > > >> realistic possibilities (specially for a Web site written in > > >> PHP)? > > >> > > >> What was the evidence pointing to a DNS problem? > > >> > > > > > > It seems likely that he made a mistake in his analysis of the evidence. > > > Something that could happen to anyone when operating outside of a > comfort > > > zone or having a bad day. Go easy. > > > > > > -DR > > > > -- > > - (2^(N-1)) > > > > > > > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn)

2012-06-23 Thread Kyle Creyts
I would suggest that multiple models be pursued (since each appears to have a champion) and that the market/drafting process will resolve the issue of which is better (which is okay by me: widespread adoption of any of the proposed models would advance the state of the norm; progress beats the sno

Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn)

2012-06-20 Thread Kyle Creyts
who would mediate/verify/validate the trust transactions, though... thats the hard part. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:46 PM, wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:31:40 -0400, Kyle Creyts said: >> Guess we all need implants deep in less-than-easily-operable areas to >> bind us to a digit

Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn)

2012-06-20 Thread Kyle Creyts
I Think                       RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com         2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647 1274 > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: SIXSS not working?

2012-06-20 Thread Kyle Creyts
meant > that no prefix would have been seen for the last 24 hours. > > According to http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/status/ which just telnets > into grh.sixxs.net and asks for quagga's status, seems that even peering > sessions are connected for longer than that, thus I am puzzled to what > could have caused that then. > > Greets, >  Jeroen > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

2012-05-23 Thread Kyle Creyts
.com         2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647 1274 > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-04-26 Thread Kyle Creyts
Thanks, Andrew. I was out and about, and couldn't remember the prefixes off-hand. They should have been in that PDF, iirc On Apr 26, 2012 6:01 PM, "Andrew Latham" wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Kyle Creyts > wrote: > > > http://www.fbi.gov/news/storie

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-04-26 Thread Kyle Creyts
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911/DNS-changer-malware.pdf On Apr 26, 2012 5:48 PM, "Leigh Porter" wrote: > > On 26 Apr 2012, at 22:47, "Andrew Latham" lath...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net>> wrote: > > Yes its

admin for fixedorbit.com

2012-04-25 Thread Kyle Creyts
it compares to what we observe) Some of the information in the output of the path trace tool is less than verbose. -- Kyle Creyts

Re: facebook ipv6 is down?

2012-04-14 Thread Kyle Creyts
Could they be testing switching to v6 on the regular domain? On Apr 13, 2012 2:00 AM, "Graham Beneke" wrote: > On 11/04/2012 09:16, Frank Bulk wrote: > >> It's been down three times today, first from 2:58 pm to 5:58 pm Central, >> and >> then again from 7:59 pm to 9:58 pm, and then again from 10:

Re: Network Storage

2012-04-14 Thread Kyle Creyts
Storage capable of keeping up with 10G/20G packet capture doesn't have to be extremely expensive... We build this with a commodity host, multiple 10G, multiple SAS HBAs each attached to a JBOD enclosure of at least 36 4TB 7.2k commodity sata3 disks. In our configuration, this delivers 58 TB per JB

Re: Routing issues?

2012-03-22 Thread Kyle Creyts
Kinda looks like a problem with their monitor. On Mar 22, 2012 6:07 PM, "Jeff Harper" wrote: > Anyone else noticing some routing abnormalities today? > > http://www.internettrafficreport.com/details.htm > > Jeff Harper | www.well.com > ip access-list extended jeff > permit ip any any eq intellig

Re: AS Connectivity Lookup

2012-03-10 Thread Kyle Creyts
bgptables.merit.edu On Mar 7, 2012 2:06 PM, "Radke, Justin" wrote: > All great answers! Thank you! > > -=JGR > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:35 AM, David Walker >wrote: > > > On 08/03/2012, Anurag Bhatia wrote: > > > Hi Radke > > > > > > You can try http://bgp.he.net > > > > Example: > > http://b

Re: Water Utility SCADA 'Attack': The, um, washout

2011-11-28 Thread Kyle Creyts
actor's employee ssh'ing > in > while on vacation? Sure, a few people have some egg on their faces and now > have > a really good bar story. But let's keep in mind that it took several days > to > sort this one out - coincidentally, just about the same number of day that > it > took Sony to come out and say that PSN got whacked. > > You really can't have it both ways. Which do you want, false positives or > false negatives? > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional BSidesDetroit Organizer

Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider

2011-10-30 Thread Kyle Creyts
I would agree that at the moment, we exist in what is supposed to be a "self-policing" community. How long will it stay so, if livelihoods are jeopardized? Some are paid to move bits, and consider that their only obligation. Others are charged with operating services that are impacted by the afore

[routing-wg] The Cidr Report

2011-10-15 Thread Kyle Creyts
I may not read it for the purpose of aggregation, but it is useful data to me for other purposes. As long as there is one person talking and at least one person listening, a thread is in order, and it isn't spam. On Oct 15, 2011 3:25 PM, "Geoff Huston" wrote: > From what I learned at the latest

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Kyle Creyts
Or .inc? On Jun 21, 2011 10:57 AM, wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:39:00 MDT, Joel Maslak said: >> I wonder what sort of money .wpad would be worth... > > I was thinking .gbmh myself... >

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-10 Thread Kyle Creyts
the US, but moving somewhere without checking is IMHO your own > fault. > > -- > Chris Adams > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > > -- Kyle Creyts Information Assurance Professional

Wire-rate Packet Capture on 10gbE

2011-04-29 Thread Kyle Creyts
How is this being done? I've looked at looked at PF_RING and TNAPI... is there anything better out there? --Kyle