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D-Link DGS-1210 Vulnerabilities

We’ve used D-Link DGS-1210-48 at work for a while, and found some vulnerabilites by accident. We decommissioned all of them about two years ago, so it’s already overdue to publish this. Enjoy! The first two are relevant (tested) for hardware … Continue reading

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Review of Open-E DSS v7

Initially, we were looking for a 10GE-iSCSI storage solution that would do synchronous or at least memory-synchronous mirroring of data to a second system and automatic failover. We planned to use the system as storage backend for a few dozens … Continue reading

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DELL about SSH key authentication on PowerConnect M6220

A coworker asked DELL about SSH public key auth on PowerConnect M6220, because we wanted to automate something. Anyways, it’s pretty common to automate stuff nowadays, right? Here is DELL’s reply on using a ssh with keys: Von: xxx@Dell.com [mailto:xxx@Dell.com] … Continue reading

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Why Oracle (and Java) sucks

We were investigating random crashes of a webapp, and it turned out to be a JAVA CORBA bug, so we  reported it to Oracle. Today, I got the following reply in my mail: I own your service request *-*********** about … Continue reading

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Defending against & having fun with WebLOIC

Lately, one of the websites under my protection was being DDoSed by a well-known trouble-making party whose name shall not be released and stay anonymous. Another party that is monitoring the web for threats against our websites notified me that … Continue reading

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Gentoo Linux Security Weekend

Last weekend, Gentoo Linux developers a3li and keytoaster came around and with help from p-y and underling via IRC, we killed the huge backlog of open CVEs in our tracker, voted on about 100 security bugs, drafted several dozens of … Continue reading

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