My Home Network
by travis on Feb.24, 2009, under Computers
So, I thought I should really start this blog off by explaining more about myself which will hopefully give me some geek credit out there! This post is going to be about my network and systems I have running on it at home. I’m going to post this before it’s finished. But since no one reads this blog anyways, no one will actually care…
Desktop systems:
1. Main / gaming rig.
Name: kramer
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q6600
RAM: 4GB DDR2
Optical Drives: Samsung SATA DVD-R
Hard drives: 2 * 500 GB SATA
OS: Dual boot – Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit and Ubuntu 8.10 (amd64)
2. Messaging / MythTV rig.
Name: bender
CPU: Athlon64 4000+
RAM: 2GB DDR2
Optical Drives: 1 LG 16X DVD-R, 1 LG 12X DVD-R (Both IDE)
Hard drives: 300GB IDE, 500GB SATA (just for PVR recordings)
OS: Ubuntu 8.10 (amd64)
Servers:
1. Main server (being replaced by #2)
Name: boomhauer
CPU: 2 * Pentium3 450 MHz
RAM: 512 MB DDR
Hard drives: 30GB, 2 * 80GB (all IDE)
OS: Gentoo Linux (been alive since 2003 or 2004 easily…)
2. New server (Replacing #1 when I get around to finishing it…)
Name: mulder
CPU: AthlonXP 2500
RAM: 1GB DDR
Hard drives: I think… 80GB, 200GB and 300GB? (I think will have to check that for sure later.
OS: CentOS 5.2
3. Slave DNS server
Name: gakkun
CPU: Pentium3 (not sure the speed, its an old Toshiba Tecra notebook though)
RAM: 256MB
Hard drives: 20GB
OS: OpenBSD 4.3
4. Firewall (I now use this for wireless also, thanks to a few cheep cards I threw into there and the ease of OpenBSD and Packet Filter)
sgtpuffy
CPU: Pentium3 450MHz
RAM 512MB DDR
Hard drives: 30GB
OS: OpenBSD 4.4
Misc. hardware
1. Linksys WRT54GS v 2.1 – Running DD-WRT 2.4 SP1, sitting in front of my Slave DNS.
2. Linksys WRT54GL – Running DD-WRT 2.4 SP1, separate from the rest of my network, on its own IP.
3. D-Link GamerLounge – Not modded at all, but using Mixed mode with WEP, only used for my Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.
Remembering the Password
by travis on Feb.10, 2009, under Security
Doing my morning reading this morning, I stumbled upon a great blog post talking about a recent compromise of the phpbb.com website and password database. Now of course a lot of people, when registering for a message board like phpbb.com know they aren’t logging into a sensitive site like their bank website and therefore, it’s likely they don’t put as much care into the passwords they choose. Regardless of this, it’s always good to be reminded about what the most common passwords, and therefore easiest to crack passwords are so we can save ourselves the trouble of dealing with such a problem in the future.
According to Robert Graham’s post, 65% of phpbb.com’s passwords were found in the English dictionary and 94% were in a “hacker’s” dictionary file. Another way to say this is: 94% of the accounts out there could have been hacked anyways!
16% of the passwords matched a person’s first name! 14% were patterns on the keyboard such as: 123456, qwerty, 159357, etc. There are a lot more of these listed in the original article so I won’t rehash them, you should go check out the full article yourself. But what I will post below are the top 20 passwords used:
- 123456
- password
- phpbb
- qwerty
- 12345
- 12345678
- letmein
- 1234
- test
- 123
- trustno1
- dragon
- abc123
- 123456789
- 111111
- hello
- monkey
- master
- killer
- 123123
So you can be sure of one thing, if you use ANY of the above passwords for anything, you should probably change it, even for those low-priority sites.
The Wrong Name
by travis on Feb.06, 2009, under WWW
So I was browsing reddit this morning, and happened upon a post about pipl.com. Upon searching my own name, I was impressed with the information the search engine came up with. I think every mailing list post I’ve ever made was found.
But I found something very unexpected. An article about someone with the EXACT same name as me who is a real dirt-bag! He was sentenced to 2 years in prison for shaking a baby! I don’t plan on having to search for a job anytime soon, but it worries me that someone could do a search on my name and this article might show up associating me with such a terrible crime!
What also tends to bother me is that the newspaper did not use the middle name of the person. Any advice out there interweb?
OMG SRSLY
by travis on Feb.05, 2009, under Uncategorized
Okay, here goes. New blog. First post.
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