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Remotemouse considered harmful

The problem This weekend I found a nice application to control my mac from my iPhone. It’s Remotemouse from http://www.remotemouse.net. Unfortunately, when testing I found out that there was no pairing request nor any authentication… I just fired up wireshark to see what was happening and as expected, it’s a very dump cleartext protocol that [...]

Reversing C++ programs with IDA pro and Hex-rays

Introduction During my holidays, I had plenty of time to study and reverse a program, which was completely coded in C++. This was the first time I seriously studied a C++ codebase, using IDA as the only source of information, and found it quite hard. Here’s a sample of what you get with Hex-rays when [...]

SSH[12] protocol weakness ?

A weakness ? While reading the actual posts around the allegations of a so-called backdoor in the OpenBSD IPSec code, which would have been inserted by the FBI through a developer, some comments have been posted on both Slashdot and LWN about “long-standing bugs in SSH2″. The page which details the criticism can be found [...]