November 2017 - IT Hare on Soft.ware

Bot Fighting 101: Don’t Feed the Hacker

Quote:

“Some of the system calls are not absolutely necessary, and using them will significantly simplify life of the attacker”

Another Quote:

“Scrambling will help to protect your protocol even if the attacker manages to F.L.I.R.T. with your TLS library”

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MOGs: Hacks and Hackers

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“One of the nastier-for-us features of IDA Pro is so-called F.L.I.R.T.”

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“All the popular protection methods lag well-behind capabilities of the average-attacker-on-a-100K-simultaneous-player-game.”

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Merits of Anti-Reverse-Engineering for MOGs

Quote:

“Given enough time, everything can be broken”

Another Quote:

“in this fight, most of the non-cheating player population will be on our side”

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Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7×6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part III. Results and Conclusions

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“There is no such thing as ‘the best router’; strictly speaking – you need to test each specific pair of (router,adapter) to get anywhere-reliable results.”

Another Quote:

“with that limited data we have now, I’d rather stay away from Realtek-based adapters.”

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Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7×6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part II. Adapters

Quote:

“We’re continuing our series of posts on real-world testing of “how different Wi-Fi adapters work with different Wi-Fi routers”

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Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7×6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part I. Routers.

Quote:

“Whatever throughput numbers are promised by router manufacturers, in real world should be divided by the factor of 2.5x-5x”

Another Quote:

“Each router was tested with each of the cards/adapters, which gives us 42 tests on 2.4GHz band and 42 tests on 5GHz”

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