What didn't fit into the talk.

Some of you might have heard that I gave a talk on Cisco IOS security at the 25C3 this year. The talk was unique for me in many ways,...

Thank you

This year's Chaos Communication Congress, better known as 25C3, was an exceptional event in many ways. It begins with a program committee that attracted so many interesting people over the...

Reconstruction in Progress

Unfortunately, a number of things recently broke, including the main (and only) harddrive of the machine running phenoelit.net and therefore this blog. We are recovering all the services but,...

Just because they are so rare ...

... I feel compelled to point at Derek Soeder's VMware Emulation Flaw x64 Guest Privilege Escalation (1/2) post at full disclosure. It seems that it's always the same...

TCP Handshakes

I recently discovered that there seems to be this class of discoveries that is made independently by many people from the same community in roughly the same timeframe. What's interesting...