I've not had issues with mine, either, and it's been performing up to snuff with the pre-... so not certain what you might be running into.  Perhaps looking at the log files might help, to see if there are any erroneous errors?

I don't think it's been announced, yet.  I know, from past challenges, there's usually a couple of week delay from contest entry end to results.  (and I KNOW Ed stays plenty busy, outside of the challenge creation / judging, too)  So I wouldn't be suprised to see the results sometime in the next week or so, but that's only MY speculation.   

On that note... wonder how well it'd run on my oQo...  That could REALLY be a handy way to do my wireless testing...

Immunity's stuff has always been top notch.  Dave Aitel and company really put in a lot of hours to come up with the solutions they offer.  I hadn't taken the time to look at Silica before, but now I'll have to.

I'd already been working on some custom scripts and tools for my own usage, but if Silica works as well as I'd expect, coming from Immunity, I might just cough up the cash and go with theirs, myself!

That's what we're here for!  Glad it worked BillV.  Sometimes, MS makes things easier than you think, if you just have a little insight and some spare time...

Have a great day!

Personally, I'd still try the reboot, and see if the registry change does the job.  As Ketchup said, service changes in the registry tend to require reboot.

Keep us posted, BillV.

Top of my head, no, but if you have another 'similar' server, you could essentially try to use sc.exe from a command-line on this server (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192) and try to kill and recreate the service.  Might even be able to do it from safemode.  Only other thought I'd have would be to boot to a linux cd / dvd (http://www.pcregedit.com/) and find / manipulate the key from there, since Linux doesn't really CARE about windows permissions, much!  <evil grin>

 

I'll 2nd and 3rd the comments above...  (I'm 37 with 4 kids, and have been there, done that... ;-) )  If I can be of any help, feel free to IM me on here, and we can chat.

Tim
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Nice, bamed...    lol!  I've been Hayabusa for a long time, but someone took it on a lot of my frequented sites, so I just appended 0194 to it, for randomness, sometimes...

Public wifi hotspots?   So they mean to tell me that using tools like Ettercap and SSLSTrip, they won't have folks doing mitm to grab GMAIL data, if they really want to?  I'd agree it keeps the general public from 'stumbling' onto data, but it certainly doesn't take a rocket scientist to bypass a simple ssl login scenario, particularly at a public hotspot.

Don't get me wrong... I guess it's a matter of general security, and thus, for the average joe, probably a good thing, but really, I wouldn't tout it as a HUGE security remedy.

SSL, by itself, isn't a very solid, promising safeguard, to me.  For instance, many of these sslvpn types of scenarios which rely solely on a username and password...  Let me sniff that with one of the tools above, and I now have your vpn login credentials.  However, if you ADD something to the mix, say a secureID token or something, they MAY get your username and password, but are mush less likely to get into your account using your login, as now you've added the necessity to possess the token, to be able to pass the proper key with the credentials...

I'd agree with BillV.  While CEH certainly may not be a management credential to hold, if you're truly looking for a better understanding of the concepts, it certainly wouldn't hurt to at LEAST self-study it, even if you don't pursue the certification at the end.  Just studying the materials, if you truly do some Googling, etc, in the process, will lend a lot to your overall awareness and knowledge of the topics covered in the course materials and in day-to-day security 'discussions,' even if you never truly understand the underlying pieces of attacks and penetration tests.

Good luck, and welcome.

Congrats!  I think you'll enjoy OSCP.  I know a few who've been through it, and it's on my list of things to do this year, as well.

The pre-release was performing pretty well for me...  Looking forward to working with final, now.

Thanks for the reminder...

I used the current default, particularly in showing the answers for the BONUS question, as the current defaults key you in on what can be seen, right now...

Nice job, manu!