Would the user of IP addresses 83.103.119.239 and 80.83.210.250 please stop attempting directory traversal attacks on my blog, there’s really nothing on it so it’s a little pointless and just generates emails from my IDS which waste my time!
Oh, and I’m not running TimThumb 
Well yeah, I should really update this more, I’ve actually now finished my first year of university, enjoyed myself very much and made lots of fantastic friends, got stuck in a lift, taught most of the class one of our modules (due to the poor teaching), helped the homeless, got a good student job, played some Minecraft, went to Download festival (which was epic in it’s awesomeness), and finished top of my class (I think)! All in all a good year and looking forward to another one.
I will try and update this more often as we get into more security related topics, currently we have had a lot of technical background and ethics but without a real security slant, looking towards the next year that is hopefully going to be changing and I will hopefully have something interesting to tell you! For now though back to the joys of cleaning my room :/ I really should have asked people to become my personal slaves as payment for helping them with Unix…
Well, I’m at uni now, all good so far but don’t really have any updates yet as haven’t started, met up with some people I’ve been speaking to online which was good, and met some locals at the alternative night at the uni which is good 
Not had alot to post here recently so thought I would post about Gumblar!
Earlier this week a friend of mine who operates a gaming website with me was infected with a variant of the Gumblar virus.
Basically this virus stole ftp details from his computer, then used these to login to our FTP and add a small piece of code to the end of all pages which started with the word index, ended with .js, and additionally select WordPress and phpBB files. This code then advised some users visiting the website that they had a virus and needed to purchase the anti virus solution offered, others caught the site trying to download trojans on their anti virus.
Whilst fortunately this particular site is on a different web server and account to the site in question it did mean a sizeable cleanup operation which disrupted our website significantly and wasted about 6 hours of my life!
I figured I would post up the offending code incase anyone did want to have a look through it.
Code Samples are in .txt documents contained within this .rar file:
Right click and save file, do not open in browser
So there we have it! It pays to have a good antivirus, and if you don’t need to store your ftp password, don’t! For me it was alot of work sorting out my site, for my friend it was twice as much as all his other sites have been edited too!
I saw this question asked on the maemo forums while looking into pentesting apps for the Nokia n900.
I thought this answer by a user called brendan was brilliant:
“pentesting is a term for the QA team under the employ of companies like Bic and PaperMate, that scribble with the pens coming off the production line, to ensure that each one works before it is packaged and shipped to retail stores.
a mundane and monotonous job, but someone has to do it.”
Now in the future I know what to answer when someone asks me!
If anyone does want a real definition please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_test.
Well I finally got ubuntu 9.10 installed on a partition last night, planning to use it as my main OS and do everything in it unless I have to go into Windows 7! This should help me get a good grasp on it which will help me with my degree in the future
I’ve accepted the offer to study at Northumbria and completed my accomadation application, just waiting on some further info for my student finance application and they should be all set.
Well I had an offer a few days ago, and I have today accepted it!
From September I will be studying Ethical Hacking for Computer Security at Northumbria University! Just need to sort out where I am going to be living and how I am going to be paying for this and I’m set 
Well, my name is Daniel and I currently work in tech support!
I am keenly interested in computer security and hoping to go into the field as a career, currently I am applying to several UK universities to study an Ethical Hacking based undergraduate degree.
As part of my work towards this I am currently teaching myself C++ and following several security websites and twitter feeds.
I don’t have alot to write about currently but I will be updating this blog with what I have learnt and some intresting stories, as well as other news.
This is my new blog, in the traditions of blogging and coding therefore the first output must be HELLO WORLD!