H a c k e r L i f e

Kevin, you're pathetic.

2003-12-29T18:53:00.000-08:00

Heh, Kevin Mitnick has issued a plea to hackers to give him "hacking stories". ... uhm, hi, that's beyond idiotic. You're arguable the most famous hacker/cracker ever, and you don't even have enough material to make more money for your next pathetic book? Don't people see that the great hackers are the ones that ~~have~~ haven't been caught?! Meh. I should write a book ... hmm...... :)

HackerLife v2 up and running

2003-12-28T13:39:00.000-08:00

Hi, just thought I should mention that I started a new blog at LiveJournal which tells more into my personal life. While of course I'll keep this blog up and update it as much as possible (probably more than three times a week) I will be keeping it more "techie", while my other blog is more "heart-to-heart". If you don't get it, just go there and check it out. I'm sure you'll understand. Note, though, that if you don't like the soap-opera of people's lives, you might not wanna go there.... although this one is the life of a hacker ;)

Fscked up or what?!

2003-12-26T12:54:00.000-08:00

Shit, some people are just stupid. A school suspended a 15 year old boy for 10 days, for "hacking" into their computer systems. He says that he only used the password that they issued every student. The school says no way. I believe the kid. A 10 day suspension for pointing out to the school a security flaw? Fuck, it's like a mini Adrian Lamo. This is not acceptable. As soon as the school's name is released I'm gonna send a petition to undo the child's suspension and take it off his record. This is complete idiocy.
In other news, this might be me- an MSNBC news story on "hacking for dollars".... I think it portrays the white hat hacker quite nicely :)
Also, Blogger has been giving me problems... crashing my Mozilla Firebird (browser) when I sign in to update this blog. Gr... not a good thing to do when I've already been considering DeadJournal, and, although less so, LiveJournal. Oh well, I like Blogger... I'm sure that they'll fix whatever bug they have soon enough :)

Christmas day and nothing to hide!

2003-12-25T14:01:00.000-08:00

... well, I wanted to say "Christmas day and .... something" so I said nothing to hide. I've been considering changing my handle from Code_Dark to DarkCode ... it's just so much cooler. That would also wipe the slate of some of the ... er... blackhat things that I've done in the past. DarkCode, you have to admit, is much cooler than Code_Dark. Meh. I also finally *own* an IRC channel ... that's #caffeine on afternet (irc.afternet.org). The official page is here. Anyway, I have the DarkCode nick running 24/7 through a freeBSD webshell I got. Good stuff. Anyway, a merry christmas to all, as well as a happy hannukah and jolly kwanza. Until the next entry...

Going skiing!

2003-12-22T14:40:00.000-08:00

... with a broken rib and a hurt toe! Fun! I'm going north to Big Bear Mountain for two days/one night with my mom. I'll be skiing, and trying quite hard to not puncture my lunch in the process of skiing. :/ In other news... well, there is no other news. It's christmas break, I'm jus chillin.

I'm not dead!

2003-12-20T17:20:00.000-08:00

... although I did OD on caffeine... heh. Anyway, I finished the tic tac toe game in full, and it is now 100% unbeatable! Yay. Anyway, for hannukah I'm going to write a dreidel game that you can download. Also, you can get the full Tic Tac Toe game http://dshaw.rr.nu/tic-tac-toe.zip. You can read about the AI controlling your new unbeatable friend here, at the Shallow Green AI page. Also, just to give you my excuse, I had finals, and fuck they were hard. Heh. Anyway, I'll be working alot more soon, as well as giving you a surefire way to chat with me... that should be fun.

Tic Tac Toe

2003-12-01T22:07:00.000-08:00

Well, for those of you that.. er... liked the blackjack game I made, I've upgraded Shallow Green (the AI- an adaptation of Deep Blue) to play tic tac toe with a user. He's damn good at it, too... although it only has one strategy. I'll let you know when I'm done giving it more strategies for tic tac toe, but you can download the current version here -> http://dshaw.rr.nu/code/tic-tac-toe.zip. Thanks for beta testing...

Blackjack v3 Beta Testing Phase

2003-11-26T11:58:00.000-08:00

Well, for those of you that don't know (those of you that have no other contact with me aside from this blog), I'm writing a massive text-based blackjack game for DOS (works on any windows system). Version three includes:

Betting
Character input
Improved A.I.
Upgraded winning conditions
(Possibly) ASCII pseudo-GUI

When I release the final beta-testing version I'll let you know. I'd appreciate beta testers....

SCO Executives Hire Bodyguards

2003-11-19T18:09:00.000-08:00

Gee, I wonder what they did to need bodyguards? Oh, maybe it has something to do with their ungrounded lawsuit on IBM and the heads of Linux. Check out the news story here. Also, I got a new homepage up (looks alot like ESR's... weird). Here it is!

Bush pushes for intl. cybercrime laws

2003-11-18T21:55:00.000-08:00

Wow, you'd think Bush would just get impeached already. Anyway, now he's pushing people to conform to American cybercrime laws... great. Here's the story.

Revolutions... A Review

2003-11-16T20:32:00.000-08:00

Well, The Matrix has been getting shit for this third part in the trilogy, probably because Reloaded bombed so hard, but I have to say the Revolutions was actually a good movie. It had a.) plot b.) action and c.) perfect length. While some argue that this movie sucked ass (all of the professional reviews that I've seen), I think that it was a great end to a great series. Don't agree? Feel free to use that little `Comment' thing. Heh heh heh... yeah. Anyway, I'm leaving because although it's early I'm too lazy to start blogging.

Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-11T19:34:00.000-08:00

Right, I just wanted to mention that I have made my internet browser default Mozilla Firebird. It's a great (and SO FAST) browser, that won't fall for tricks (like I.E.), is open source (unlike I.E.) and is just basically cool! It has themes, and a whole shiatload of cool stuff (windows in tabs, etc). I'd definately recommend it to ANYONE over Internet Explorer. In other news, homecoming was great, and although in the beginning (around 7:30pm) I was just letting my date and female friends know that I don't dance, but by 10:30pm I was seriously gettin my freak on. Right. Anyway, back to Mozilla Firebird. The current release is 0.7, and I really like it. You can check out the "Reasons to switch to Mozilla Firebird" here. The download link is at the bottom of the page. I hope the last time you use Internet Explorer is to download Mozilla!

Homecoming, y0!

2003-11-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

Whatup readers, time to let you know that... dun dun dunn... my high school Homecoming dance is upon us. I have the dance Saturday night from 8-11pm, and I'm really looking forward to it. Yes I have a date, you geek haters. Anyway, I'll be hangin with my homies... it's gonna own. I'll probably skip the festivities (football game, etc) and just chill.

Leet 2.0 Released

2003-11-04T20:08:00.000-08:00

Well, not too much to say, and if there is I don't have time to say it. Leet 2.0 (my ezine) is now out.. you can check out the site here or go straight to the download page here ... the file is leet-2.zip.

Hot around herre..

2003-10-31T23:03:00.000-08:00

Yeah, well, with wildfires raging all around me I think that I have a pretty legit excuse to not have updated my blog. I'm still sorry though. Since I had three days off school this week, I had three parties... and one on the Friday before. Lot's of friendships were really forged these past few days. Leet 2.0 was obviously delayed, but I'll let you know when it's back on track. It doesn't really help that it's two major endorsers (webiest and dotCPU) are both pretty much down. Heh heh. Anyway, I'm back into online game things sort of, and I'd REALLY be grateful if you clicked this link http://vexyn.rr.nu (this really cool vampire game) and http://vexyn-g.rr.nu (the infamous Outwar in a new round). Thanks again guys, if you want to start playing, just do so. It's really fun.

USATODAY.com - University receives grant to fight hackers

2003-10-26T16:36:00.000-08:00

I'll keep this short and sweet. I've seen lots of things that piss me off, and alot of things that aren't fair, but this has got to top the list. A University has received a grant to fight hackers. This is appalling. Please tell me what you people think of it, because I'm really amazed that they would go through so much money to create a false "internet" to simulate attacks. Don't they realize that we're faster, quicker, better every time?

Back!!

2003-10-24T08:54:00.000-07:00

Hey hey... I'm finally back from my Outdoor Ed. trip in the Colorado River... to make things short and sweet, we (that is, my grade) canoed down the river, just a little ways (maybe a mile) past the Hoover Dam, down about 20 miles... in three days. The first day we just sort of got used to paddling (i.e. sore arms) in Lake Mead. All in all it was about a 7 out of 10 (that's a C- for those of you who aren't students, and aren't sure what "grade" a 7/10 would rank), but it was much better than last time, which would have ranked the lowest possible score (0/10)... it sucked, mostly because my canoe sank. This time, however, I managed to stay afloat. The best part was hanging with my friends, seeing some rattle snakes and scorpion, getting soaked and frozen with girls/guys I didn't really know, but ending up really close to them... it was great. Anyway, I'll probably write more about that later... I wanted to take the time to note a great paper published on SecurityFocus on stopping worms using honeypots. Check it out here. Anyway, I'm gonna go shower again, and probably update again later..

Outdoor Ed = Medieval Torture?

2003-10-19T16:32:00.000-07:00

Well well well... how are you all. Sorry that it's been a little while since I updated, but once again life kept me busy. I'm on the verge of getting my 6th then 7th computers, to put on Mandrake and Red Hat on. Should be fun fun. What shouldn't be fun, however, is that I'm going to be on "Outdoor Education" - a trip for my grade at high school... to go to the Colorado River. It's gonna suck so hard. First we drive out there on a bus for eight hours (by far the best part of the trip), then we get there and set up tent in 100+ degree weather (I checked the forcast). Then we eat crap ass food and sleep in a cramped tent horded by mosquitos. The next day we get up at the crack of dawn, complain about how we have no running water, and eat another crap ass meal, noticing that our fresh water supply is starting to dip. We throw our tents and stuff into a canoe and float downriver. We land, set up tent, rinse and repeat. I'm there Monday morning (6 AM) to Thursday night (probably around 7-10 PM). That means four days without my beloved computers (don't even mention the net or hacking), and with minimal caffeine (only what I can suck out of coffee flavored candies). Ouch. Email me and give me your sympathies- I'll most likely get them when I get back. Also, I made up with Mina, but I still feel really upset.. oh well, hopefull she'll understand. Thanks for the kind emails and comments about that from the last entry. I really should go pack and inform the #2600 crew of my departure. Eh, whatever. I think I'm going to get a new WindowBlinds theme... my desktop is getting too normal. Anywho, I'll update when I get back- and dont forget that Leet 2.0 comes out on Halloween, so make sure to download it. Co0l. `peace out my homies... I hope I'll live through this god forsaken trip...

BLASTER?!

2003-10-11T15:21:00.000-07:00

Wow, this is such a disgrace... as you know (or maybe don't) I got a new (used) lappy on my birthday. An IBM ThinkPad, and my 5th box, it isn't too shabby. Anyway, last night I finally jacked in to the internet... and guess what I found as an internal process (after receiving an RPC error)? msblast.exe. Wow was I pissed. Immediately, I tryed my skills (no antivirus, either) and managed to shutdown the process and delete its vital files- but others were still infected. In laymans' terms I stalled it enough to patch my windows.. so I tried to do just that. Only lo and behold, microsoft.com said that "although the service packs have been downloaded, they failed to install". So naturally I tried to reinstall them. Nope. The Key is wrong on my windows... great. Anyway, I went to symentec and got fixblast.exe and fixed myself, then got ZoneAlarm free and cranked it up to it's highest setting.. really annoying. I'm using XChat-Win for my IRC needs, and I actually like it alot better than mIRC, once customized. In my personal life (I know you guys love this part) Mina has shunned me.. I'm drowning in my own guilt, but I hope she just understands that I really do love her- but only as a friend. I mean look at Bria last year- that really fucked up a great friendship. I love Mina more than that. Anyway, I'm gonna go... I'll update again a little later on this godsent 4 day weekend. OH! And I got a few pics of me up, check it out:
My Pictures

Source Code Stolen!

2003-10-07T09:53:00.000-07:00

Well, if you haven't heard already, would should know that the Half Life 2 source code has been stolen. An unknown source leaked the source code of what is bound to be a blockbuster game and it is now downloadable on the 'net. Due to the ... illegal nature of this news, I'm not going to provide a link to the actual source. It is 100mb's of UNCOMPILED source, meaning that once compiled, its a pretty big file. I think I'm gonna go download it and take a look at some seriously pro coding. Only problem, is it would take me quite a while to download, with my fucked up dial-up connection... anyway, I've gotta go, so... oh yeah! It's my birthday today, so if you want you can email me at dshaw858@hotmail.com, my latest "civilian" email address.

... idiots.

2003-10-01T11:55:00.000-07:00

Well, I've always thought that the nice little "security ticker" I have provides nice, intelligent news... then I saw this article. Threat Report Says Attackers Target Newest Vulnerabilities .... no, really? It says that they do this so the systems won't be patched yet. Could they say anything more obvious? I mean seriously, it's so obvious that attackers do this, it really amazes me that it would make the SNP {Security News Portal}. It's quite amazing, really. I'm just sitting here, in my film studies class, watching another old black and white movie about crime, and writing a paper. Great. Anyway, I'm gonna go... I'll try to update again today, but if not I will soon. `peace out my homies.

THE FBI SUCKS MY D1CK

2003-09-29T18:51:00.000-07:00

Wow, I never thought that I'd post something like this. The FBI demands (under the PATRIOT Act, of course) that all journalists give them their notes of interviewed hackers... if they don't, they go to jail. This is completely unjust, and uncalled for. Well, no big news stories for me, I suppose...

Nothing much

2003-09-28T22:35:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm about to go to bed but I felt like giving you guys a little update to let you know I'm still alive. The only thing that's happened in the past 24 hours or so of note (I forgot to mention this before) is that I got this free conference call line thing. So all of my friends can dial in and talk... it's pretty fun. I'm thinking about having weekly hacker chats on my conf line, but I'm not sure yet... I'll have to decide based on what the #2600 group thinks. Speaking of which, the months #2600 stats thing it almost over- I'm #6, but I hope to be #5 before Oct. 1st. But who knows. I'm also known as the most descriptive chatter. You can see all of the #2600 stats here. Also, the new Leet ezine (Leet 1.0) came out (I'm the editor/compiler/staff writer), and you can check out the site here. Anywho, I think that's it, so I'm going to be off. Hope I sleep well, and get rid of this damn insomnia...

How a "denial of service" attack works / Another one gone....

2003-09-28T00:00:00.000-07:00

Well, as I was just surfing around, I found this great news story: How a "denial of service" attack works. I thought that the readers of my blog might be interested in it, so I thought eh, why not, throw em a bone. So, this should teach you a little bit about how DDoS attacks work. I like the little animations; very informative and pretty accurate too. Also, you may have noticed (if you've been reading my little news ticker) that another kid was arrested on the same charge as t33kid- modifying the Blaster worm. Heh, sucks for him; and they wont release his real name, handle, or even if it is a he (there are girl coders out there too, you know!). Anyway, sucks for him. .... in other news, I spent all day in services (Rosh ha Shannah), meaning not at ToorCon. Oh well, maybe next year.... and if not, there's always DefCon XI, next August. Anyway, it's midnight (so technically sunday morning), and I'm tired. I'm gonna finish up and go to bed soon. I'll post whenever I can- `peace out.

Long time no C?

2003-09-25T22:35:00.000-07:00

Well, sorry I haven't been updating so much - I know, I know, you hear this every post, and every time I try to make it up by saying that I'll post more in the future. It's school, and it's life, and it's catching up to me. Good news, however, is that I finally picked up some of my old C books (and a few newer C++ ones) and started reading again. I learned how to better make random numbers etc. etc.... I'm going to make a Blackjack program (game) in C++. The only problem I'm having right now is the Ace variable- how can I have it equal 1 and 11 interchanably? User input I suppose, but the whole thing is a bit confusing. This weekend is Rosh Ha'Shannah, or the Jewish New Year, so I won't be able to post (what's that I hear? Another excuse?), but I'll definately let you know how it went. And lastly, no ToorCon for me... busy with services this weekend, so I won't be able to make it to ToorCon downtown... it really sucks- I might have even spoken there. Anyway, I suppose that there's always DefCon XI, and the Linux User / Open Source Conference in L.A. in November. Anyway, I'm tired, my sentences are losing structures, and I think I'm coming down with a cold (probably induced by lack of sleep). I'll update as soon as I can, but for now, I'm out.

Review: Underworld

2003-09-20T23:12:00.000-07:00

Wow, I was looking forward to this film since I went to Comic-Con in July. Jeez, the previews, the plot basis... everything seemed so perfect. It is a sort of Romeo-and-Juliette story in a postmodern world- except instead of the Montague's and Capulet's, it's the Vampyres and Lycans (that's vamps and werewolves for those uneducated readers). Great plot, except... half of the movie was directly ripped from the matrix. Sucks. It ripped off too many movies to count, but the plot was somehow original in it's own perverse way. Also, the special effects kicked arse! I give it 3 out of 5 stars.

'Swen' Virus wreaks havoc

2003-09-20T15:26:00.000-07:00

Well well well... some of you (those who are in email contact with me, or who know me in real life, might have heard me ranting about how I'm getting a whole sh*tload of fake emails containing viruses (Please note that the word 'virii' isnt actually a word..). Well, I got really fed up and I traced it back to a roadrunner account (and Ip, mind you) in Houston, Texas. I think that this person was either already infected or a hacked computer, because it's doubtful that anyone would send these things from their own account.. but who knows? People are stupid. You can read more about the 'swen' virus here. This site, however doesn't show that the virus also poses as a Mailer Daemon error. So not only can you download it from the microsoft email (if your browser is patched), but you can also be autoinfected through web based hotmail. Sucks, doesnt it? I am compiling a list of all the possible subject headers this virus utilizes, and how it spreads- obviously a mass-mailer, but also has ties to Kazaa and IRC. I'll update more later.

I hate Blogger...

2003-09-18T20:37:00.000-07:00

Wow, for the first time yet, I really, really hate blogger. I wrote a whole nice, in-depth post about why my updating is sluggish and how much I appreciate those of you who left me commants. It's the people commenting on my site that keep me alive. Really. Also, feel free to email me at

code_dark@programmer.net

.... my inbox is always open to comments, questions, suggestions... anything. I'll try to update more often, but it's really hard with my hectic schedule. Oh- I bought Neuromancer and some other books by William Gibson. Techie stuff. I'll review it as soon as I get the chance. Until next time, my friends...

Finally, I read the comments

2003-09-17T20:53:00.000-07:00

Hey, I'm not a slacker... I read my comments! One that got to me was "just thought I would let ya know i was one of the many random users jumping around in here, enjoyed your h4ck1ng stuff ;)". See, this kind user let me know that he appreciated my stuff. It's people like you that keep me alive, man. Anyway, I'm really sorry about not updating more, but school is *killing* me. Seriously, it's hard to do anything. I have no free time, homework owns my life. And I'm not even doing a sport yet! Anyway, I gotta go buy 'neuromancer' (hacker must-read), and then I'll do a review. By the way, I got a new email address, code_dark@programmer.net, so email me there. Right. Okay, I'm done.

LEET- Coming out soon

2003-09-14T14:54:00.000-07:00

Well, I just thought that I should let you know that Leet, my ezine, is coming out on Sept. the 26th, if you haven't already gathered that. You can check out the official Leet website here, and our "who-we-are.txt" file here. Please note that the latter of those links will eventually become the download site for the zine, so after the 26th that will be a different link. Also, I designed the official site (leet-online), so I hope you like it. If you know anything about technology, please email me at code_dark@programmer.net and I'll publish your: article, tutorial, opinion piece, review, or anything else you want the world to read.

Dead.

2003-09-11T22:59:00.000-07:00

Right, I dont mean to be so boring and sparse in my updating, but I've been REALLY busy with school. Tomorrow night I got my first LJCDS Upper School dance, so I'm pretty excited. Hot girls. Good. Anyway, I haven't been getting anything close to enough sleep, so I'm a bit out of it. I'll try to update more tomorrow evening or Saturday. Remember to read my little tickers on the site to get some info about hacking and virus news. Pretty cool.

Lamo set to surrender Tuesday

2003-09-08T22:39:00.000-07:00

Well what with all these news tickers (I got a security news one now, too), it's hard to be the first one! These are my sources, people! Oh well, Adrian Lamo, the famous white hat hacker (he only used a web browser to hack, quite amazing, really) decided to turn himself in to police. This is an outrage, Lamo should not be charged. This might turn into a whole new "Free Kevin [Mitnick]" campaign. Uh oh... . Anyway, you can check out the story here. In personal news, I have been overly busy with school, LEET, and hacking/programming. I'm half-dead right now I'm so sleepy. So, I'll post again when I can. Good night, ladies.

Blaster-F suspect arrested in Romania

2003-09-05T16:33:00.000-07:00

Well, it seems that worldwide a crackdown on hackers and malicious coders is happening. In Romania, the programmer of "MSBlast.F" was arrested- this being only a week after t33kids arrest. Check out the Romanian kid's story here. In my news, I went to the first Robotics meeting today, and it seems pretty cool. They only have one programmer, so I think I'll be able to help them out alot. I'm going to my dad's this weekend, so again posting might be a bit sporatic, but eh, what ya gonna do? Also, blogger has a new "Blogs of Note" thing. Notice I'm not on it. I think that it's fucked up that they took off superfastcomputer (although Stevland hasn't updated much) and didn't add me. They added a blog called "Abrasion Magazine" featuring crappy porn. How low can Blogger get? That's not even mentioning "Ass Be Gone". I need to be on that list, but I'd hate to hack my own blog provider; I love their service. Anyway, I'm going to go pack for dad's house... maybe I'll be inspired there. Oh! Also, I started an eZine called LEET, which you can check out at http://leet-online.tk. It's a monthly thing, and it's only just getting started, so cut me some slack!

WORM_SOBIG.F - Description and solution

2003-09-04T22:27:00.000-07:00

Well, SoBig seems to be dominating the virus world recently. If you take a look at by security warning thing on the right hand side of the site, you'll see that two SoBig virii dominate the #1 and #2 spots. Although you could find it for yourself, I have to link you to something! Check out the WORM_SOBIG.F - Description and solution.

School sux0rz?

2003-09-03T22:22:00.000-07:00

Hell yes. School sucks ASS. The only good points are that we get out at 2:00pm (Early!), and everyday there's a class (or two) that we dont have. Extra homework time, yay. Anyway, tomorrow I have a quiz or test in: English, French, World Cultures (most likely), Biology, and an Algebra quiz on Friday. This sucks! Well, in good news, I started a hacker ezine... LEET. I think that it'll be pretty kickass. The issues come out the last Friday of every month. The first issue (this month) will come out on September 26th unless I'm mistaken. The zine will be published in both a downloadable .zip file, and .txt files which will be viewable on the internet. If you are interested in writing a tech. article, tutorial or review; or need a tech question answered, please email you situation to code_dark@programmer.net . I'll get to it as soon as I can (most likely same or next day).

mIRC - Catching me in IRC

2003-09-01T12:38:00.000-07:00

So, you wanna see hackers in their native enviroment? Well, here's how you do it. (Note: This is to access an open server. For private servers you've gotta ear my trust):

Download an IRC client such as mIRC (download page), and download and install. (Choose closest download link). Install, and enter your nickname, handle, name, email, whatever.
Next, come back here and come join me on IRC.
My handle is Code_Dark; otherwise Vexyn, David, etc. One piece of advice: Don't piss off the hackers ;)

t33kid- We stand by you.

2003-08-30T18:03:00.000-07:00

For those of you you dont know of t33kid, he is the 18 year old high school student from Minnesota, who allegedly created the Blaster.B, a variant of the MSBlaster worm. I personally knew t33kid, and he was a cool guy. You can view news stories about him and his arrest here and here.

The day wasn't a complete bummer though, because I finally got a virus warning thing on my site. Kindly look on the navbar on the right of this page. Isn't that nice? Anyway, give a prayer or two to t33kid and his family, and wish him the best of luck with his upcoming trial(s).

ugh

2003-08-29T23:20:00.000-07:00

Oh.. damn.. tired.. depressed... Too lazy to type anymore, but I learned basic C++! Good for me! :-)

Blogger...

2003-08-27T21:05:00.000-07:00

Well, I've decided that I seriously need to become a "featured blog" on blogger.com . How many other hackers' blogs do you know of? Also, I changed my handle from Vexyn to David. David is my real name. ... Ðavid. Hopefully this wont come back to haunt me, but as I'm at least mostly legit I dont think that a hacker alias is needed. On that note, here's how to email/contact me:

email: djtank9@hotmail.com
email: firewall_fo0ker@hotmail.com
email: greyHat_h4x0r@hotmail.com

I think it's probably best if I dont continue on with my contacts. Some must be kept secret. You will reach me fastest at greyHat_h4x0r@hotmail.com . And on that note, I'm off to Barnes & Noble's to buy some programming books on sale.

The log of a Hacker

2003-08-26T22:34:00.000-07:00

The log of a Hacker is the title of this site. I'm assuming that you know this. For those of you coming through hackerlife.tk, our URL forwarding address, our real address is http://vexyn.blogspot.com. Bookmark it. Add it to your favorites. do whatever the hell you want, just do it! Anyway, in the world of security it might be relevant to note that the school network at school has gone down 100% with the MS.Blaster .... see, they should have read my blog! Those of you older readers of my blog will find it funny that the very server I found open to errors (in my Black Hat days) becomes totally infected. Since all the computers have it, whenever they log in to the network it reinfects. Sucks. The only new virus is a worm, W32.Zush@mm , which is ranked a 2 (the current highest; the larger the numbers the bigger the threat) on the Symantec Security Threat Assessnent page. Also, everyone has to check out this page that attributes the Sobig.F virus to... organized crime?! It's an interesting situation, but I think that these "experts" are actually McDonald's cooks...

School...

2003-08-25T19:40:00.000-07:00

Well, I went to school and all was good. Although it was an eventful day I'm hot, sweaty and not in the mood to describe it all. In security news, still nothing new. It's quiet... too quiet....

School...

2003-08-24T21:55:00.000-07:00

*sigh*. As you can tell, I made no posts over the weekend due to myself reading "I know why the Caged Bird Sings" for school (tomorrow), and not letting myself on the internet the whole weekend. I spent it with dad, so it was pretty cool. Tomorrow is a half day at school but Tuesday is the real thing. I'm psyched but on the other hand I'm a bit nervous and on my third hand, I'm upset that I cant spend all day fooling around with hacking and the internet and programming... etc. Oh well, I'll be able to see my friends who are in the middle of World War III and the nukes are falling. Oh well, that's my life. In the security world, not much is happening; the same viruses and worms are still wreaking minor(ish) havoc, and using up their time before everyone is patched... some new trojans, backdoors, etc are out, but nothing serious. That's all for now, and I'll update again tomorrow evening and let you know how dundundun... school went.

Quoted! ; Not much happening.

2003-08-22T10:23:00.000-07:00

Wow! One of the coolest blogs out there (not including mine, of course), Stevland's Super Fast Computer, quoted me from my blog on the main page! If you see the MSBlast entry, then see the quote (in italics...), you'll recognize the writing from my recent post about the W32.Welchia.Worm. I emailed Stevland (the author of Super Fast Computer) and told him how much I appreciate it and how I love his blog. I really do! Anyway, that seriously made my day. In the meantime, nothing extremely interesting has been happening (just check Symantec Security Response if you cant live without your twice daily security updates), so there's nothing really to report on. The Sobig.F virus is still doing its job: Infecting, infecting, and infecting, but again: It's not that harmful. It seems the programmers were more focused on spreading the virus than actually having it do any damage. Oh well, I guess that's why I code functional programs instead of viruses and worms. Stupid people, you'd think they'd at least make it erase a file or two. Strange people. Anyway, be sure to drop me a comment and check out Super Fast Computer when you're not reading The log of a Hacker!

el33t, |3 0 y 1 0wnz j00

2003-08-21T22:06:00.000-07:00

As l33t as I am, I guess it's not enough. I went over to Grant (SilentRed)'s place, and tried to fix a comp that he totally messed up. Couldnt do it. We were on the line with an MSN operator for about an hour but we gave up because they suck ass! Anyway, we did that, he actually beat me at Halo, and then we took turns 0wn3rz1ng the internet at CounterStrike. I saw our future server (pretty sweet), and that was about it. We decided to do it again soon, and I'll get redhat on our shiny new server. ... and I found out that he really is banned from irc.2600.net, the loser.
In other news, the Sobig email virus has become the fastest spreading email virus ever, reaching millions of computers since it was released on Tuesday. Known as Sobig.F, the fifth version of this virus expires on September 10th (the coders want the internet to be free to send the next version, Sobig.G around), and the next version could be out as soon as September 11th. The good news is that Sobig does not physically damage computers, files or critical data, but it ties up computer and networking resources. However one in 17 e-mails sent around the world since Monday had been affected by Sobig, an internet security expert said, with some fearing the virus could increase global e-mail traffic by as much as 60 percent, slowing the Internet to a crawl (credit: MSN).
My advice is to check out this site and check out the subject and attachments. Let's hope that the next Sobig isn't so big. ... hacker joke.

m4d sk1llz?

2003-08-20T09:36:00.000-07:00

Well, I dont particularly like to brag, or show off. I think that this blog makes it pretty clear that I'm a hacker (however legit) and that I'm not too shabby. *Clears throat* I was asked yesterday by Grant Farwell, a fellow hacker, to come over to his place and help him set up an old linux box (I'll give him use of my Redhat 9) and to help him get another computer (which he is being paid to set up) internet-ready. I might bribe him for a little $$ if you know what I'm sayin'... and then I get to whoop his sorry ass at Halo: The hackers' FPS of choice. I think I'll go today, because as I see it thats the only day I can since tomorrow I'm at dad's, Friday same thing, weekend busy with dad and then... oh my god.... school! So I'll explain this to mom and make her get me there and back. ... I'll threaten her mail server or something, it shouldn't be a big deal. I'm thinking about bringing my own old computer and getting it set up over there... you never know! Also, I'll get Grant to burn me the 5 disc set up Microsoft Visual .NET ... software development. This will be sweet! ... anyway, I'll post again either ranting that I can't go, or telling you how sweet it was. OK, I'd best be off, I suppose...

Security Notice - W32.Welchia.Worm

2003-08-18T19:05:00.000-07:00

Well, it's time for our 2nd Security Notice, but this worm is more funny than harmful. The W32.Welchia.Worm is a variant of the Blaster... sort of. If you are infected with it, it will automatically patch your windows, reboot your computer to install, and then uninstall the Blaster Worm if you have it. It will also check your system tray Calendar. If/when it reads 2004, the worm will remove itself. A useful worm to have, since it's not really harmful, even though no one likes a virus or worm of any kind on their computer. So, this second security notice might be a joke, but be on the lookout for this new worm.
(by the way, I still gotta go and buy a modem for my Redhat comp...)

Red Hat's off to you!

2003-08-17T22:33:00.000-07:00

Ahh, a nice day at Fry`s Electronics. Paradise, right? I even bought Redhat Linux 9 for $20 (it was on sale). So, I got home, reformatted the hd on the old piece of scrap metal in the other room and booted her up. After about 5 hours of messin with it I got it the way I liked it, I logged in as root, and I started setting up the dial-up connection. Only it couldn't find my modem. And when it said it was there, even though it couldn't willingly detect it, it said "Modem Busy". Busy my arse. This sucks. So I'm not gonna install it on my main comp (WinXP with a Lucent Win Modem) until I know I can get it to work. I refuse to format my C drive for nothing. Hopefully I'll get a new modem, but who knows. Aside from that I like Linux, since it gives me a UNIX shell, but damn. This is just too much. I'm gonna crash early tonight (prolly around 11pm), and get up early and try to find a cure to my ailments. Most likely it'll be either a new modem or good old winXP....

Worm failed!; Classes reverted

2003-08-16T21:52:00.000-07:00

Well well well... the blaster worm didn't count on this: Microsoft pulled the plug on windowsupdate.com in favor of windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Microsoft.com itself was down early Saturday morning, and the *current* Windows update site- even if only for a few hours- ran on Linux. Disgraceful! It's hot as hell here, and tomorrow I'm gonna cool off in Fry's Electronics and maybe get another few hundred MB's of RAM for the new schoolyear.... which, by the way, starts soon. My schedule reverted back to Film Studies and the World Cult. class with my friends, and I'll just take Java and Speech next year. In 11th grade (I can't take AP Comp. Science until my Senior year cuz of %$#@ pre-calculus), I'm gonna take an independant study with Mr. Webber, the computer teacher.
In other news, I finally got to work on the Root Canal website, which should be linked to (the link changes) on the little bar on the right hand side of this blog. Thanks for reading, and for the love of god, give me a comment once in a while!

Worm Successful!

2003-08-15T21:36:00.000-07:00

Well, the terrible W32.Blaster.Worm finally reached it's high point. All of the computers infected are doing a violent and massive DoS attack on Windows update.com and it's source, windowsupdate.microsoft.com. As of this post, both sites are down.
Also, I successfully confronted Coach Hutzler and quit football. I am now doing basketball (winter) and men's volleyball (spring).

UPDATE: A few minutes after I finished this post, windowsupdate.microsoft.com went back online, but without the www most websites have. The status may be fluxuating or it might be me, but the original windows update site (windowsupdate.com) is down.

No more football >: )

2003-08-15T08:46:00.000-07:00

Well, I took my own advice and decided that I didn't like getting hurt. I decided to drop out of football. Wish be luck, I have a meeting with the coach this afternoon.

FOOTBALL!! ARRGH

2003-08-13T23:03:00.000-07:00

Gha. It's 11pm, I'm actually tired, and I have football practice from 1pm to 6pm. Ever heard of a hacker that plays football? No, that's what I thought. Anyway, after practice I'm going to my dad's house, and there (or here, when I get back), I'll give you some up-to-date news on the W32.Blaster.Worm and it's new little brother, Blaster.B.
Good night all, sleep well and hope I do too :/

Sysop?

2003-08-13T18:07:00.000-07:00

Wow, it's like a dream come true! Chris (a friend I made on MSN chat) has a mom who's a sysop for MSN chat- and he applied me to be a sysop too! It's so great it's hard to imagine. Sysops are the power supreme on MSN chat- they have the power to split (close) any room on the network, and even ban users from all of MSN for a set (or infinite) amount of time. They also.. deal with hackers. What a job! It's like heaven! The best way to undermine hackers is to hire one yourself. I'm up for sale! Chris says that it'll take around 2 weeks to process (right when school starts!), but whenever it does I'll be ready to work. I just hope that I get accepted! If I dont, I'm no worse off than I was before. And if I do... it'll be the start of a hopefully fruitful Net Security (legit hacking) career!

W32.Blaster.Worm Removal tool

2003-08-13T09:32:00.000-07:00

Good news! Symantec Security Response (the company that makes Norton Antivirus work) has released (this morning) a removal tool for the Blaster! The only problem is that now the worm is performing DoS (Denial of Service) attacks on Windows Update.com to make it hard to update. So now, if you've got the worm or if someone's trying to give you the worm, not only will you crash, but when you finally get to Windows Update.com, there is a chance that it will be down and you won't be able to update. To my knowledge, the DoS attacks haven't successfully pulled Windows Update.com down, but it may only be a matter of time. After you've gotten the patch go here, to Symantec Security Response's Win32-Blaster Worm removal page, and follow the steps to get rid of it. Nasty little worm, this.
.... by the way, do you think I linked to Windows Update.com enough times?

Security Notice: Blaster Worm

2003-08-12T22:48:00.000-07:00

Wow, I must be falling behind. As you know, there is a new Windows worm out: called the Blaster. It's said in the hacker rings that if it keeps going at the rate it is, it will rival the destructive power of the SQL Slammer (otherwise known as the Sapphire) worm. It's also being compared to greats such as Code Red and Nimda. The good news is that it only affects Windows. The bad news is that chances are- That's what you're running. The worm was previously thought to only be transferred through DCC, in IRC channels, but it is now confirmed that it travels through TCP port 135 and UDP port 69 of Windows machines. A good firewall will take it out. It was reported on CNN: Headline News tonight that an up-to-date antivirus will take care of this threat. That is untrue, and obvious to anyone with any technical knowledge. The reason new worms work is because they're just that: new. Even modern antiviruses such as Norton and McAffe will (most likely) not pick up these evasive worms. The good news: it doesn't delete any files. The bad? It's easy to get and makes your Windows box crash a lot. The reason this worm is perfect is that when it successfully infects you it makes you crash alot, and when it fails to infect you it makes your computer crash. If you have a malicious hacker or script kiddie that wants you to get this worm (and you're vunerable [aka: using Windows]), you'll either get it, or crash every time you reboot your computer. Not a good situation. My advice is to go to Windows Update.com and patch your O/S if you're on XP, WinNT or 2000 (home or pro editions). To my knowledge the Blaster doesn't affect Win98, WinME, Win95 or lower, and of course Linux and Mac users are immune to it. Once you update the patch you will be immune from receiving the virus, but I'm not sure weather it will stop it if you already have it. Either way, it's a good idea to get the patch. Despite disgusting me (most viruses and worms do), this raises a good point. There is an embedded install shield (that normal users will never see) that reads: "I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!! billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!!". This time I've got to agree. Windows needs to stop patching the holes and make a sturdier ship. If you want to scan your computer, the file looks like either "LovSan", "MSBlast" or "Blaster".
See, isn't it nice having a hacker report to you from the frontiers of cyberspace? You'll be getting alot of security notices (whenever a new major virus, bug, exploit or worm hits), and you'll hear it from me first. Or close to first anyway- for this new Blaster, I was one of the first few people to start reporting it. Remember, malicious hackers want worms, viruses and exploits to remain secret: how else would they work? Fo0kers, however want to help users. Please leave me a comment on the first of my (hopefully) plentiful Security Notices by clicking on 'Comments[#]'. Thanks for reading this, and I hope it helps!

COMMENTS!! YES!!

2003-08-12T11:26:00.000-07:00

Finally!! Yes!! The day of glory has come!! ... no, I'm not turning into some kind of a religious fanatic, but I *finally* got comments up on the page! Hell yez! Now you can comment on:

How much of an idiot I am for publishing my fo0kings
How cool / brave I am for publishing my fo0kings
How sexy I am (this one only really works if you've seen me)
How much you love my blog!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy (and actively use my new comments system!

New URL

2003-08-12T10:47:00.000-07:00

Well, being the high-tech guru that I am (hey- never said I was a modest one!), I've decided to get a better URL than vexyn.blogspot.com - not that that link wont work anymore! I just decided to, as a PR measure, get a .tk domain... and.. here it is:
hackerlife.tk
Isn't that a great domain? I was seriously surprised that it wasn't already taken. Don't forget our direct URL though either- sometimes the .tk network is down and you have to use the direct link. Anyway, my day today is:

WAKE UP!!! It's already quarter to 11 and I haven't woken up yet
Change all the URLs of fo0ked sites in this blog- again, I really don't want people reporting me. Although these things are legal, webmasters dont generally like people snooping around in their networks
Look at computers online from CompUSA... if I can get a cheap linux box (computer), then I'd be seriously happy. Or, I could get Windows95... now compiled into only 4.8mb!
And, last but not least, go off to dad's house. It's his day today. That'll probably be when I post my next post.

Well, that's a full list! I'd best be off.

fo0king: failed.

2003-08-11T21:49:00.000-07:00

Damn. I mean... dern. mail.l**ds.org (or fc.l**ds.org) is TIGHT with security! To say the least. I could probably crack the firstclass server, but I'm strictly a fo0ker- that is I only do legal things, remember?
It's like 9:45pm, and to be honest there isn't that much to say. Oh yeah, I just sumbitted my blog to Blogshares, and I'm sure my stock will skyrocket- after all, how many blogs are there from hackers? Not that many, I'd say. However I think I'm going to have to change- yes, censor- the pages that I'm hacking. I wouldn't want the sysop of that site getting an email reading:
Hi, I was reading this hacker site and did you know you were a target?! -John Dough
... no. I don't think that I'd like that. I'm still working on perfecting the fake google that I made, but you're welcome to check it out.
Anyway, I'm signing off for the night, I'll post in the morning.

Class Changes.. :-(

2003-08-11T16:40:00.000-07:00

Aw MAN! I changed my classes today, and switched out of Film Studies and into Speech and then Java (Intro to Programming). So I have to take a fine art (film studies) either 10th grade or 11th, depending on when I take AP Computer Sciences. Of course, the worst possible thing happened: They switched my World Cultures block. That was the ONE class with all my friends, including Mina, and this is her last year here. It's a major bummer, but I can't think of what else to do except undo the change and take Java in 10th grade, AP Comp. in 11th, and Film studies this year. But then I'd have to take Speech over the summer. It's just one of those things I have to deal with I guess...

Making it permanent

2003-08-11T10:00:00.000-07:00

Well... I made the final post on my Xanga and decided to permanently switch to Blogger. Not only do I like the interface better, but I don't think I've ever found the site down. Which is a good thing. Now, just to make it clear: fo0king (yes, I did make up this term) is pronounced foo-king. It is the art of legal hacking. I'm not a criminal! Also, don't go around saying "fook you!". It just makes me look bad. It's only around 10 am, but here's my day:

Well, I'm going to fo0k around with mail.l**ds.org today a little and see what I end up with
I'm going to school registration and getting some more info about my homeroom, classes etc. After I get my list I have two weeks to change my classes. I'm going to do so in the first five minutes. I'm switching out of Film Studies and switching into Java (second semester I believe) and then whatever else they let me (first semester), but probably Speech.. if I can.
I think I should start worrying about football practice (it starts on the 14th. My unofficial end of summer), but I'm not really yet. Just bummed that I won't be able to sit on my comp and code/hack all day. Plus I'll miss Chris. The one from Virginia lol. Hey Chris, get good grades and maybe I'll see you for Christmas break! Hell yeah!
And (last but .... yeah, last and least too), I'm going to find a comments system that works with Blogger so I can let you wonderful, talkative readers leave me comments on my controversial posts!

Well, that's it for right now... I'll update again in the evening and let you know how the above things went.

Die, Xanga, Die...

2003-08-10T18:59:00.000-07:00

Ohhhh Xanga pissed me off. I'm sitting here with an urge to update my Xanga, and Xanga is down. I figure, OK, no biggie. But I decide to ping it just in case they're not really down and it's just crappy tech people. I'm right. The pings are returned to my shell. Xanga software must suck ass because it's not working.... And it annoys the hell out of me. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep this blog, or if I'm going to switch back to Xanga, but for now, here's my day:

-sigh- Another party I wasn't invited to. The yearly party at Chris Frace's. All my friends were there. Bummer.
I went fo0king (for those of you oblivious, fo0king is the art of legal hacking and tweaking. I like to stay on the legal side of things. Mostly), and fo0ked ljcds.org, mail.ljcds.org, and super****computer.com . No harm done. I also made a small.. joke.
I found out that my dad's moving to Israel or England or somewhere (he doesn't know yet), and he want's me to move with him. I want to do it, but then again, I like America, and my friends, and my school. It's who I am!
And lastly, I converted to Blogger from Xanga. Again, I might switch back but I kinda like Blogger better (since it hasn't CRASHED ON ME yet)

Until I get a comments system up, if you'd like to comment on this post please email me at: firewall_fo0ker@hotmail.com . Thank you.