Congrats, g00d_4sh.

All caps in the title is still annoying.

Reseting the administrator password is very easy if you have another user with admin rights, such as your own account if you are an administrator.

I actually saw this in Barnes & Noble a few days ago.
It's very interesting, but I hope the comicbook style doesn't give people the wrong idea.

That is a really scary thought.
Had to remove everything but the processor to make it secure.

I would think that you should also take all precautions to avoid rogue access points.

Honestly, I think your countermeasures against DNSChanger are a bit overkill.
Also, most of those (possibly all of them) are just general security practices, and not necessarily countermeasures to a specific problem (like DNSChanger).

Not even to check the EH Net forums?

Darn, MonoDevelop is for Gnome.

Black Hat = malicious
White Hat = pentester / security analyst
Grey Hat = Black Hat turned good

Black Hat hackers are the guys you see going to jail for some big cyber crime.
White Hat hackers are us. We are in the security field, not the anti-security field.

A lot of people will tell you that Black Hat hackers know more about real hacking, but the truth is that a lot of that experience might not even be any good for a pentest, because there are certain rules you must follow while doing a pentest (such as, you can not use viruses on the companies servers/workstations).

A hacker is someone who knows how to exploit computer vulnerabilities, wether it is by using tools or making their own buffer overflows. A black hat will do this to make money, to piss someone off, etc.. A white hat will patch this so a black hat cannot.

If you get a way from the computer topic, a hacker is simply one who sees a problem or challenge, and finds a way to overccome it. Using lockpicks instead of breaking a lock is hacking. Social engineering doesn't involve computers at all, and it is a form of hacking.

A hacker is not a bad title. It is a good one.
Your reputation on how you use it is what sets you apart.

So rok, my question to you is, what do you want it to be?

And honestly, I hate labels like these.

I've heard of attackers breaking into misconfigured firewalls and causing a denial of service until the victim paid a ransom.

I'm sure if either one happened to a business, they would be forced to pay the ransom, since a company can't just stop working.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks for the link, Don.
A lot of the links on that site point to this one:

http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware

It has a few different Linux distros, as well as FreeBSD, as VMWare images.

Write your own.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=how+to+write+a+trojan

g00d_4sh, I looked up the local defcon group here, and it seems to be a bunch of kids. That, and it seems that there are actually two groups calling themselves the same thing and they apparently fight over which one is the official/original defcon group.

Maybe I need to start my own local group.

Any more details?
Reliability as a client OS / server, why it is worth looking, where else we will see it, etc.?

Thanks. I am interested, too.

I'm not the best hacker around, but you might use a reverse HTTP shell for that.

Same here. I think that's the only reason I noticed it.