The Reverse Challenge: Winners Announced

asqui writes: "The Reverse Challenge was a contest from The Honeynet Project to essentially reverse engineer a binary captured in the wild running on a compromised honeypot. The contest ran during May of this year and the submissions have been judged and the winners announced. Dion Mendel took first place with 43.4 points out of a possible 50. The binary turned out to be a tool for performing remote DoS attacks from compromised hosts, with its instructions being cunningly supplied via the lesser known IP protocol 11. This binary is currently being used in the wild but there is little reported activity, probably because sysadmins are focused on the other more dominant protocols."

Comments

d'oh!

[Jucius Maximus]

"The binary turned out to be a tool for performing remote DoS attacks from compromised hosts, with its instructions being cunningly supplied via the lesser known IP protocol 11."

You have just caused an evil-grin to appear on the faces of many trojan writers. They now have another 'cunning' trick to add to their arsenal.

a smart Sysadmin

[linuxislandsucks]

A samrt Sysadmin knows to check slashdot.org once per day to see what irreposnible hints you are giving to script kiddies..

Of course without these slashdot.org posts I would be out of a job..so I guess hey bring on more slashdot.org posts!

What the Fuck?

[You'reAFuckingMoron]

I've been reading this site for the last few years. In the last few days, I realized that I only read it out of habit, and I've been frantically trying to find any reason to continue reading. I want some reason to justify my behaviour all this time -- something to prove that I haven't been wasting my time. I've found no reason. It seems to me that all the technically capable people have long ago left or stopped posting, and all that remain are a bunch of dumb-ass losers with no real skills or insight.

The stories where never the reason to read this site -- CmdrTaco and the rest are not stupid, but they are pretty damned smug, not nearly as smart as they think they are, and simply don't have anything very interesting to say. Their stories were interesting only as long as they were able to generate interesting replies. They no longer do. I don't know if SlashDot has simply imploded on its own popularity, or if abuses of the Moderation system have driven off the sensible posters, or if my own standards have changed. But I do know I'm no longer interested in reading anything on this site.

See you all on the dark side.