Lately I haven’t been very attentive to this blog. Since I actually formed a business and am blogging somewhat professionally I’ve been working my ass off on my financial blog. In the process I’ve optimized Hamsterswheel quite a bit in terms of SEO, Wordpress, plugins et cetera. It’s amazing how much there is to blogging beyond just writing up some words. Currently Hamsterswheel get’s about 60 hits per day, and has roughly 36 subscribers according to google reader but hardly any according to feedburner. I’d really like to get back on track with both blogs but at the moment my Chief Operating Officer duties for Twenties Money Magazine, LLC have taken a slightly higher order.

I will be out at Blackhat and Defcon Next week in Vegas. Thursday evening I will be attending the Ethical Hacker party over at the hofbrauhaus. I went last year with a few people I knew and ended up running into about a dozen people I used to work with.

When: Thurs evening, Aug 7, 2008 from 8:00 – 11:00
Where: Hofbrauhaus Las Vegas
Why: FREE BEER!! That’s why. First $500 on the beer tab is on us! Oh yeah, and there’ll be some pretty cool folks from the security community there as well. They also serve food, so bring cash to make splitting the food bill easier.

If you’d like to say hi hit me up there, or at the Core Party.

After Vegas I will be getting back on to some things. I was discussing with Tebo some of my idea’s, he pointed me towards an upcoming publication from Wrox titled Grey Hat Python. I had a similar idea about a series “Python for Pen testers/Hackers.” Apparently someone beat me to it! Either way, If you’ve got any idea’s for posts, research, or projects let me know I’m glad to investigate idea’s!

Well finally got my confirmation and receipt for Blackhat/Defcon. This year should be a lot more interesting since I’ve established quite a network since last year. Get to meet up with quite a few homies from IRC/Silc this year, party out in the belagio and get my learn on! I was going to try and coordinate a team for the oCTF, but as it’s turning out people are quitting their jobs and or just don’t want to play.

So, one of my classes finished out yesterday. I’ve still got to complete my risk assessment project for it. It’s a bitch, although I see the usefulness of Qualitative Risk Analysis I still think its somewhat tedious. Over all there are many things I picked up in this class that I fully intend on incorporating into my overall processes. Next up to finish is this advanced wireless course. Although the course content in and of itself is advanced (this class is hard core into the protocols of 802.x wans and mans.) The labs have not been very advanced. I’ve been messing around with some of the air-ng tool set. Unfortunately my IPW3945 card doesnt like doing things. So I purchase an orinico card.. Turns out, Proxim’s orinico silver isn’t a true orinico card. Doing some research however i find that I can modify the firmware on the card and make it a true orinico. Backtrack 3 also has a custom driver for the ipw2200 card which I happen to have in my wifes computer. I’ve been messing trying to mess with WEP cracking but it would appear as though the only WEP AP’s are not generating enough. Even with me doing arpreplay’s im only generating maybe 4-5000 IV’s. Since I’m starting to take more of an interest in Wireless I am actually starting to consider giving HD some money for his pwntops! Got that in an email yesterday that HD sent to AHA!

Three more classes to go after this term. Can’t wait to be finished with it!