• personal,  sites,  Ubuntu

    10 Tips for Writing Gaming Bots

    Apparently it’s out. I’ve been botting games for years. Botting is my way of coping with an addiction to games. I simply cannot help myself. I start playing a game and I just cannot stop. And that’s where bots come in. Over the years I’ve found a number of ways to write bots. It started with easy little web scripts and has now morphed into a full blown SWT library framework that spans multiple games, multiple platforms and runs around 20 instances from my home network at all times. But when you start writing bots, you enter into a new kind of game that is a game in and of…

  • Mac Security

    Botnets and Fast Flux

    Ever get the call from an ISP that a host on a network you own (no, not p0wn) is hosting a phishing scam site and you need to fix it? Happens all the time for one reason or another. But if the sites that contain malware and phishing information are quickly repaired (and at this point they are due to some really nice advanced systems for handling this kind of thing that are being employed by universities, ISPs and corporations), why bother? Well, this is where Fast flux comes into play. Fast flux is a DNS technique used to hide compromised hosts behind a rapidly changing (thus the word fast…