http://blog.peacocktech.com Hey.. That looks like fun Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:13:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since posting yesterdays post, looking at the obfuscated StalkDaily worm, I have come across the sourcecode of the original unobfuscated worm on github. It does appear that becides the obfuscation, these are two different variants of the worm, with differing behaviours. While I believe the information in the previous is ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2009/04/14/stalkdaily-worm-revisited/ Update: This post covers a newer version of the worm. I have located the original code, and it is reviewed in a newer post. The following is a quickly developed, haphazard analysis of the StalkDaily worm that infected accounts of twitter users on 12Apr 2009. Apologies for the roughness. It was ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2009/04/12/stalkdaily-worm-analysis/ This album, also bought on a whim, is a 2007 self-titled album from a Favourite artist, and has become a new favourite album from this band. Listening to the album was a little unpredictable, I had trouble with the first few tracks. After listening to this album for a month (a ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2009/03/24/avenged-sevenfold/ These two albums were bought without research. While waiting for an order of CDs to arrive, desperate for something to listen to I picked up a few albums in Wagga. Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King Never having heard this band before, I was enticed by a review on the cover; "...time signature ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2009/02/01/cryptopsy-and-nevetherym/ Overview: This article describes an investigation into the cause of infection of AntiSpyware2009 and similar malware. Goals: Find where this malware lives Find how this malware is installed Method: This research was performed on two VMWare Server 2 virtual machines, on an Internet connected computer, isolated by a firewall from any other computers on the site. The ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2009/02/01/antivirus-2009-prevention/ As those who follow me on twitter may know, I'm making an effort this year to listen to more new music (new to me, not necessarily new releases). I have found my enjoyment from playing and listening to music has dropped since I left uni, where having access to 30+ ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2009/01/31/new-music/ Well, our new line following robot is done. With any engineering project, you can always do more, but after tidying up the program, and tweaking values for a few hours, we came up with a reasonable configuration, able to complete out test circuit in an average of 40 seconds. The robot ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2006/12/01/bilby-mark-ii-part-2/ Fun and games last night. Bradley Robinson (who absolutely refuses to have his photo taken) bought a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit. Brad has had it a few days before I had a chance to see it. When I first saw it it was configured as a walking bi-ped, though it ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2006/11/30/bilby-mark-ii-part-1/ When you declare war on the neighbouring dorm, make sure you have a weapon of mass hydration! At short notice today we decided to build a machine to launch water balloons at the neighbouring building. With the aid of Levi, we designed, acquired parts, and assembled in a few hours a ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2006/03/24/rocket-science/ A busy term is over. A term during which I watched helplessly as my in box filled up with unread news subscriptions. But its over now. Finished the subjects, finished the ITC307 projects, and 382 projects. Been back home for 2 weeks, been getting back into reading. Also been doing ... http://blog.peacocktech.com/2005/12/13/educational-content-0/