Friday, March 21, 2014

Packet Analysis 101 - Wireshark's Packet Details

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"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of bits-and bytes-and frame headers-- Of trace routes-and pings... You've already seen how to use Wireshark to take a packet capture, how to set capture filters, and how to set display filters.  In this post, we're...
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HTTP Host Headers

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Why are Host Headers important? Host Headers are sent in the HTTP GET request to instruct the webserver to send content back for a specific website.  This is necessary for webservers that host multiple websites (think shared hosting), so the hosting server can match the content to the Host Header and serve up what website. Here's a video demonstrating multiple sites...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

MACCDC 2014: Virtual Quals Lesson Learned

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MACCDC 2014 - Virtual Qualifier Round Some found my MACCDC 2013 write-up helpful, and more information is always better, so here's this year's lesson learned for the virtual qualifier round. Choose a later time slot This lesson is pretty subjective and I don't mean for it to...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

MACCDC 2014: Sahana Eden Write-Up

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This year, I was tasked to a linux box, even though my greater strength is in Windows.  With the theme of this year's MACCDC being related to disaster recovery, I discovered the distro I had was Sahana Eden. The tl;dr of this part is that I recommend once you learn of...
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