How did you get the network here in the middle of the field (10Gbps). By The NOC team
Internet was provided by XS4ALL, BIT and OpenTransit. There were direct peering connections with Akamai, Google and Giganews.
First problem: how do you get from Vierhouten to Amsterdam? In Vierhouten you have several options:
• 3KM fibers to Nunspeet
• There are two fibers of KPN and UPC in Vierhouten
So what is a hackerspace? “Desperate collaboration, rats and cooking with high voltage electricity”.
Esther started her presentation by showing a hackerspaces video. Which explained that hackerspaces are groups of people who are into hardware hacking and try to figure out how technology stuff works, and what you can make from basically whatever?
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Links from the HAR2009 site: Talk description and Slides.
Roland started off by explaining the basics of DNS Cache poisoning and the details of the trick discovered by Dan Kaminski last year. Explaining why you don’t have to wait for the answer to expire to in order to poison the cache.
Quite a bit of the patching done after the Kaminski attack became public is actually been undone by NAT-ing firewalls, who do not randomize the source ports the use to keep track of their NAT table.
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Slides are here
Bert Hubert introduced us in the world of DNS. He opened by stating that “DNS is Scary and complex” and “DNS it is everywhere”.
Nice way to upload files to a webserver. While there is nothing
new about uploading a file to a web server and then executing it, using SQL injection to do it is a novelty. By using a Zlib compress, base64 encoded payload and uploading them via SQL injection the speaker would be able to bypass standard defenses like extension limiting and file type checking.