Any NMAP experts out there?

[suityou01]

On a serious note, anyone read "Certified Ethical Hacker"? Cracking reading. My plan B involves writing something along the lines of a firewall/packet sniffing tool so am a bit of a TCP nerd. Absolutely cracking reading.

And there's exercises to learn on, and servers on the web to allow you to practise on

Sometimes these tricks come in handy.

PM : Suity, so an so is on holiday and we have a business critical situation.

Suity : We don't have the passwords.

PM : Is there no way in?

Suity : Maybe

[doodab]

What's more, if "they" could update Microcode remotely, it would only be a matter of time before hackers figured out how to do the same.

That paper is BS, but microcode updates do exist, and they are processor specific. The code that applies such an update has to check the processor type and version and so on.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...crocode_update

Hackers are more likely to target BIOS and boot ROMs on network cards than CPU microcode IMO.

[Sysman]

Sysman is our treasure hunt winner.

27 minutes!

As it happens I had already downloaded the PDF earlier in the day, to save it for posterity.

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