Category: Blog

  • Fascist Hosting Company 1776hosting.com

    AS397702 1776 Solutions, LLC IP Addresses: 256 Netblock: 103.114.191.0/24 Hosted DomainsThere are 9 domain names hosted across 13 IP addresses on this ASN. 103.114.191.1 RouterOS v6.45.3 http://103.114.191.1103.114.191.30 1776hosting.com103.114.191.34 https://mail.jaw.sh103.114.191.36 https://103.114.191.36 Kiwi FOSS103.114.191.37 kfcdn.xyz103.114.191.40 https://riot.kiwifarms.net, matrix.kiwifarms.net103.114.191.41 https://www.lolcow.tv103.114.191.47 nginx [ssl:autodelete.kiwifarms.net]103.114.191.55 9chan (Cloudflare), 9chan.hk103.114.191.56 9chan (Cloudflare)103.114.191.60 matrix.kiwifarm.net103.114.191.63 git git.kiwifarm.net103.114.191.129 [503 Service Unavailable] democratieparticipative.website103.114.191.132 [NS_ERROR_NET_ON_TRANSACTION_CLOSE] sonichu.com103.114.191.139 https://mirror.bullshit.agency103.114.191.144 https://103.114.191.144 [400…

  • A Quick Look into 8 Chan – IP Map

    8 Chan is hosted in Reno, USA at N.T Technology In. They employ a range of servers to host 8chan including a mail server, a mirroring server, and various mirror servers. 8 Chan are a service that masquerades as a free-speech platform but in reality is purpose built to recruit, train and mobilise ethno-nationalist and…

  • Why you should ditch Cloudflare

    Cloudflare is a network provider offering a reverse proxy, pass-through service. Apart from some terrible security practices, (for example even if you use SSL certificates [https://], Cloudflare can see your passwords), Cloudflare also does the following: Shields criminal webmasters by hiding their IP address from the public. The example most on our minds at the…

  • Defeating fingerprinting scanning of onion websites running WordPress:

    This is not a discussion about detecting if a TorHS website has WordPress installed, but rather about tricking attackers that scan your website into moving along, nothing interesting here. For starters, if you are running multiple onion websites on a single webserver (and my recommendation is that you do not do this, use one website…

  • Hokioi Security OPSEC practices

    —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 Hardware Security: Hard drives are encrypted with unique pass phrases Servers protected by pfSense hardware firewalls Operating Systems: Client OS: TAILS TAILS USBs are destroyed regularly with a grinder and ‘soaked’ Communications Security: All client contacts via encrypted and anomymous platforms ( see https://taipo.github.io/contact/ ) Information Security: Pass phrases…

  • Mitigating Jackhammer 1.2 website traumatising tool styled attacks

    —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 What is Jackhammer 1.2? Jackhammer 1.2 ( sometimes called Jackhammer 2.0 ) was developed in 2003 by Mike Parniak ( Archon ) from TheBlackHand / Cafe Counterintelligence in response to CCISecurity script he released that blocked attacks from Jackhammer 1.0 Jackhammer is a MS Windows only, layer 7 attack…

  • Further security considerations when hosting a SecureDrop or Globaleaks server

    —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 If you are a journalist organisation with a central office situated in a country that respects the role of journalists, then you may quite comfortably run a SecureDrop or Globaleaks server within the offices of your organisation and depend on journalistic privilege preventing governments from entering your offices and…

  • Choosing the right secure submission system for your organisation

    —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 To begin, first read @yawnbox’s excellent piece on this. Choosing which secure source submission platform is right for you. I want to add some additional thoughts on the differences ( while hopefully not regurgitating too much of what has already been covered by @yawnbox ) SecureDrop SecureDrop in my…

  • My Analysis of the Rawshark Hack of Cameron Slater’s Communications

    —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 What I want to discuss here is the attack on the WhaleOil communications network which resulted in a large cache of emails and attachments becoming the centrepiece of Nicky Hager’s book Dirty Politics. I hope that you the readers, bloggers and users of online services will learn from the mistakes…

  • How to securely leak information to a SecureDrop or GlobaLeaks whistleblower platform

    —–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 Your number one priority in sharing truth is to preserve your anonymity. Highly secure platforms for secure disclosure of information like SecureDrop and GlobaLeaks go as far as technically possible to protect your identity and to protect the transfer and dissemination of your information to the world. However you…