This Side of Paradise

As always, forensics challenges draw my attention first - there’s a satisfying feeling that all of the answers are within what ever artefact you have with you. The “league of assassins” is a beginner challenge that requires analysis of a pcap file and is avaiable at this link. The challenge text says You are a field agent tailing a League of Assassins operative. The assassin just got the name of his target and needs to scope him based on available online information.

I promised a year back that things would get quite technical here on - well, here we go! A couple of weeks back, I tweeted Bfn hyper-v. I'll accept you are a child prodigy, bit I'll take a look when you're all grown up. Pathetic support for a Linux setup. — rvivek (@vivek_310) March 20, 2013 This was after a long and frustrating month long attempt to get my pentest lab running on my laptop.

After a gap of more than four and a half years, I’m back. Been quite busy these times - although I had dropped in occasionally to see what was happening. Life’s on its next, “more responsible” phase right now. It started off way back in 2002 when I started becoming interested in infosec - however, due to Goldman, I didn’t have the time (and the motivation) to pursue it seriously. However, now, I find myself torn apart between two worlds - the work of a project manager and the call of infosec!

….I promise I’ll try and be more regular :) This one was just too good to be passed…!

….write this up now! Music was something I grew up on… I needed to have it when I was doing something, or just plain chilling out…! got my first walkman when I was still in school and then went on to build a decent enough cassette collection. The craze took off when I got into work, I indulged in a nice CD player and then went onto build a huge collection of audio CD’s ( still have a cupboard full of them)…however, something was still lacking.

…lots more to come :)

One of the first things I was thinking as soon as I got the TV was to get an xbox 360. I was really in two minds of moving to a new gaming platform. The final push came to me on my birthday, in the form of a Halo 3 special edition DVD. So headed out to music world a few days later to grab the elite edition of the 360 - for two particular reasons - HDMI output and a huge 120 GB hard disk attached.

for my own part,I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that which I conceived it there is however a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts and to which is yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language these fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely, only at epochs of most intense tranquility

quick preview of my next posts… the xbox is here, halo 3 looks just awesome :) terabyte storage, that’s so unassuming the laptop hunt updates …coming soon..!

A very oft used phrase, however in a very different context. This hunt, however is for that perfect laptop… here’s what I’m looking for Must have: Intel Core 2 Duo processor running => 2.2 Ghz< 8600 GT or an 8700 GT mobile graphics processor 15.4’ or a 17 inch running at WSXGA+ (1680x1050) at the least. Preferable resolution would be WUXGA (1920x1200). Should have HDMI out Can compromise on: Brand Hard disk size Battery backup weight Know of any laptop that meets these specs?