Hi there, lately I have been digging myself into the capture the flag with Hacker101.
I have made it to the 10th challenge, but I have did a lengthy write up lately with what I have done.
The Goal is to complete them all and doing so on stream.
WRNET:Sec – Streams – Hacker101 CTF Series..
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wrnet-the-stream
Changes has been made, I have been thinking of how am I going to continue building?
There was alot that was thought about and moving forward.
What have I done?
- Discord, I have cleared up un necessary channels for moving forward.
- Mod App coming – I am Rolling out Discord and Twitch Mods application, removing the unnecessary amount of mods I’ve added in thinking of others who might continue their support?
- I have removed 99% of all trans relation and trans pride mainly because twitch just shows it is not a place for that pride to be shown if you want to grow, I also have no real support behind it. I am trans and somewhat proud about it, but it comes a time you have to put aside childish things and do adult stuff.
- Future Charity streams, from this point on, I have to halt them until I grow as a community, I have tried it, shown even the pride with it. But even then I don’t get much support what so ever and every time I get no success with them.
- The lack of success, is happening so far including the front page slots. I have to move forward so cuts has to be made that isn’t giving me success in return.
- Removing extended support who doesn’t support this community in return, it is just bad business. So to keep it short, I just can’t keep supporting people who just simply fail to return the support, Including adding in excuses of why and so on.
- This includes services I provide but is never utilized.
- Communities that once shown support but stopped.
- Some partnerships has been applied for but it will be a different view.
Do you want to support the stream?
You can by coming and hanging out at https://live.wonderingraven.net & join the discord at https://discord.wonderingraven.net
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Viewbotting on twitch, how to stop it.
Hi There,
This is just a rough draft of something I’ve been watching and taking notes on. (warning might be mistakes given down this line)
I have a security assessment on being an avid twitch.tv user since 2013, for my safety I will not be mentioning names or who I have conducted the research on. I follow over thousands of users and streamers and for security purposes I will not tell anyone who this applies to the guilty party will already know and such. But this isn’t about the guilty party, it is in general what I have found and picked up on and found one way maybe others to re-mediate this problem.
I Highly recommend that you listen to a podcast called “Darknet Diaries on eps 27” and a lot of this will make sense.
If you can exploit a service to help a user that is a potentially a podcaster or streamer, they will use it.
The question I have is, have you ever wondered on a few twitch streamers (normally big with 90+ viewers consistently). Sometimes you wonder out of no where they become partnered?
Well, I have been taking notes on various of streamers who I follow and watched them grow. I just don’t take notes of what they do on the front side, I also take notes of the darkside of a partnered streamer. Social engineering is a strong tool, if you can hack a lot of viewers or even a service to get you what you want you will do it because you want to cheat your way to the top and be that next ninja or something. Of course, me knowing this, has me questioning them as a streamer how honest are they? Because they are not honest at all from this standing point. To be honest, the theory I can think of when using this would be this judgment on their end with “Winning is winning, either by an inch or a mile” and I get it you quit your day job with 9 to 5 to make it and you needed an umph to get you launched.
I was recently on the front page of twitch.tv doing a charity thing because that is what I love to do is to help others. I was accused of view-botting, I for one have no interest in view-botting so why would I use a service? I have achieved my goal with twitch and that was to break a self-confidence wall now I am there for fun and my business is WRNET:SEC so I don’t need to relay on twitch for money.
What is View-Botting?
It is a bot that is proving a live view for the channel that isn’t a human and it is against twitch Terms of Service. If you google twitch bot service you will get links with both mix of against this and that and some actual services. This is where darknet diaries on eps 27 came into mind, if you provide the service people will use it.
So, with my assessment of this concept, you can’t tell if they are view-botting well not fully as they will not tell you their secrets (Remember it’s also against twitch ToS), it’s undetectable. But here is something of a bait and switch, I was there for a few streamers before they had any major growth. They where extremely into their community they built and was like the idol and stuff like you should be in a community, they would always pass on the love to other streamers. Then one day they decided to play a game totally off the records, game was cool and all it is also a pitfall type of game but somehow they got their viewer count to triple and the same original bunch who was chatters still chatted up a storm so that is giving the streamer something to hide with, it went from 15-20 per day, then 20-30 per day, then from there it went from 30 to 90+ and consistently. It’s kind of odd, this would be loaded with in 15 minutes of their starting up. But when they started this jump, they never raid again, they would host others who have 100+ already. And in quick time they became partner. At this point they have distance themselves from the community they built and pretty much what they where preaching before has changed a lot and you have to do a lot to cover up view-botting. You can’t raid others as your viewers will not follow (because viewers are viewing the channel programmed i.e. viewer-bot) You no longer need to be a community leader, just as long as you perform your social engineering magic on stream to cover your lies, they will believe anything. (Almost like they are drinking your kool-aide in a cult)
One gift my mom has taught me is a lot about reading in between the lies, having street smarts and knowing a lie being told.
So how do we fix this?
Solution: lets bring down the enforcement of a standard user and remove the old 10+ years old ways of signing up for an account and enforce 2FA (yes this is something I would allow 2FA for) this would be married to a phone number and since when you become an affiliate you have to do the whole 1099 anyways might as well do it now as this will secure and lock down the account. From here, I would change the algorithm to allow an aliased bot user for moderation but limit it like so. Now that every account is secure with socials, TaxID etc… and phone numbers, it would be hard. This would create a whole new department for auditing and audit findings to verifying the such id’s exist to keep customer database secure. With this in place a lot of bogus accounts will be forced to shut down, if they are not verified with in 30 days of implementation and this will make users be honest from here on out. You need to be 13+ anyways to be on twitch, this would ensure that kids are on the platform with a good reason and intention and this will require parental guidance to sign up.
fix this and you will fix 90% of all harassments towards users.
I am sure other streaming services are different, but still the same on bot services.
Another security issue with view-botting is that these could be used as a DDoS attacks on a user. (As something I have seen on youtube with a troll raiding twitch and still does it to day). Which makes it difficult even for an average twitch user to be discouraged and quit the platform all together.
TL;DR – There is alot of Viewbot services out there and it is both a cheater and away for Trolls to DDoS attack to twitch users.
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Some thoughts into 2020
Hello Friend,
As being a streamer, I have changed alot and there is alot I have learned and noticed a whole lot.
I have been keeping a streamers diary for a while and writing down notes and things, reading it a bit and I have seen and found a ton of exploits over time including social engineering at it’s finest, I’ve also seen massive hacks from their push and obtaining partnership. It is not just networking as some say, but it is also knowing how to bend the system to get what you want.
I’ll apply and hit partnership eventually and when I do, I’ll release my diary. After reading it, it is really in-depth and could be a bit much for some to take, but good information for another would be a simple guide.
If you know me, You know I am a pirate with a heart and I’ll take what I can and give something back at least.
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WRnet:SEC the start.
I started WRNet:Sec in a venture as a startup of something new, the idea came across due to lot of vulnerabilities with social engineering aspect of the streamers around the world, IE: Twitch, Youtube, Mixer, etc…
I was approached a few times to assist with damage control after they have been a victim of being exploited and in a term “SWATTED” where the SWAT team shows up because of a prank call. The attacker would anonymously keep harassing the victim until the victim learns to calm down and ignore them. (9/10 times if you ignore the victim they will go find another to target)
I’ve witnessed and assisted in a takedown a bunch of Anonymous Youtube Streamers as their main focus for the streams was to purposely encourage and attack various twitch streamers. They would flood the victims with hate speech, dox them to prank call and / or swat them live on youtube. Only reason why twitch was a huge target is because alot of times a streamer will have some type of information listed or is around an area where their location can be found.
This is something I do alot of, especially if I see something for anyone, I watch I do call it out. If you or know anyone that needs assistance in a better way to secure how they operate their stream feel free to reach out to the Wondering Raven, I don’t charge to consult I rather network, meet and secure new streamers out there.
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As they say…
As they say if you don’t like something. Change it!
One thing I would rant to my mom about is working on the strip, how much I really do hate it and how much I regret it, I should have stayed in Oregon somehow is my overall feeling. But we cannot dwell in the past and I don’t have my mom to rant to anymore so with some deep thought since her passing was I need to change it all.
I am pushing for new changes as WRNet:Sec is the new birthplace of the business with cyber security.
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Loving Memory of Mother and Best Friend!
I got the call 7/17/2019 at 7:15am when I got to my desk at work, this call I missed and it was from my bro which is very rare and only time he would call me especially at work if there was an emergency.
I returned his call and to find out that my mom has passed away. I told my boss right away and left work, on the way to the car I was having a hard time processing it and as soon as I got to my car I uncontrollably started to cry. From work, I head home and trying to hold back my emotion as much as I can and focus on driving home and as soon as I got home I put the car in neutral and E-Brake applied I just broke down and uncontrollably started to cry. Feeling that my mom is finally gone, remembering all that she has said. From there I am now flooded with soo much emotions and with soo many thoughts but I was also told my nephew didn’t know what happened yet so I had to force myself to stop and head to my room.
About an hour has passed since I got home, my brother brought my step dad over with my uncle bob where I was told the story after gripping my step dad in a hug and started to cry.
My mom, had her rough moments, she was a survivor, what has made this rough on me is that we was friends if not best friends for all my life. She was the one, when I had an issue I felt the easiest talk to and sometimes get friendly advice, aside from motherly advice because in essence she was more of a friend person than a mother. She was also known to be a very overprotected mom, but she also was wanting to be everyone’s mom too. She was a social butterfly at times and always trying to hook me up with other women out there especially from stores to restaurants. IF she was a sales person, she would make a large profit in sales alone but that was never her thing she always wanted to be a consoler and help other kids but she never had the chance to go back to school and get her GED.
She passed away between 6-7am on 07/17/2019 from an Acute Pulmonary Embolism as an instant death as soon as she got up from sleeping like she normally does she blackout and my dad found her less than 1 foot away from the bed face first on the ground. (Normally she would also text me around 6-7am every morning with “Good Morning”) She was not breathing nor had a heart pulse when my dad found her at 7am and she had no struggle or my dad would have woken up, as he is a light sleeper to begin with. My dad woke up at 7am, and called my brother after he called 911, and between 7 and 7:15 I got a call from my brother about it.
She had a hard life to begin with, a month ago she was crying to me about how the doc was diagnosing her with different symptoms from early stages of diabetes he also was having some other heart issues she lived with for so long on top of chronic migraines. She was also crying about high blood pressure was bad and being overweight and told me she is very afraid to die and doesn’t want to die especially the same way that her mom died when she was 18. (She found her mom one day after school on the ground that put her into a coma and later on the family had to pull the plug from life support)
So with little that I had and I had my money issues I couldn’t fully support her on what she wanted but I helped improvising the situation of hers by advising what to eat and not to eat and she did that as much as she could. Last week around 7/11 she got word from her doc that she lost over 23lbs in a month’s time but was told by the doc that she needed to go to the ER about the swollen leg and the pain from it, but she had a huge fear of the ER and had a lot of reasons not to. She procrastinated in going, and doing so 7/11 -> 7/15 I was dealing with some massive work drama that had me feeling I am about to lose my job over an accident that I didn’t find out until Monday night after setting up a lab and finding out the issue. Last time I spoken to my mom was on 7/15’s that night we spoken for over an hour on the phone and last thing we did say was “I love you” 7/16 she and I didn’t speak. I found it strange as she normally calls me unexpectedly.
Some good happy memories I’ve had with her, this past year I helped her leave a toxic house and moved to a trailer home that was new in a very nice community and it was closer to my house and to my nephew who she also loved to death as well. One of the many things she would tell me how much she loved it there how friendly everyone was around her and the people she was meeting. Because that was one of her issues that she felt so isolated and for the longest time she isolated herself from the world and it was my mission to un isolate her by forcing her out with me a lot of times.
2016 I won tickets to Formula Drift Long Beach and I decided to take her with me to it. Rented a hotel and we had Roscoe’s Chicken and waffles and another night we had Bubba Gump Shrimp. She loved both places and enjoyed every moment especially when we went to the beach shortly before we head back. This trip is what set her up on changing her ways with her drug addiction, that lead to stop her pill abuse that she was known to have for so many years.
Misc little things was when I was able to help with small things like bring by food when I can afford it when they had none or given into times of cigs because she was a chain smoker that refused to quit.
I would surprise her with stuff every now and then, that would always be a surprise to her, and she always enjoyed it.
Another happy moment was when I was diagnosed with cancer in 2003, she dropped everything including her drug addiction she had at the time to spend every day from the ER visit till my final chemo treatment with me. Her and my stepfather was there by my side from day 1 giving me support to keep a positive head and to truck forward to recovery.
When her brother passed away in feb of 2017, She ended up staying at my house as she was having a mental breakdown after returning back from Wisconsin, I did my best to help her cope with it until the point that she had to return home as she was getting overwhelming.
Her overwhelming part started shortly after I returned from Oregon in 2011, this is when she went to the hospital and where she had to be placed into an chemical induced coma. When she woke up (this was all from the toxic in her blood from a non-treated UTI that ended up in the blood shutting down her kidneys back then), she never really had been the same since. There was moments, at times (a lot of times, normally I call this a 2 week period times). That if she seen it in her dreams it happened in real life or if I said something in her dreams I also said it for real in rea life with this and mixed with the drugs she has been also have been taking at the time, It really has messed with her mind at times.
Our main issues that she and I always had is that she needed a financial crutch since her brother had a heart attack and had to retire. This point is she lost her major point of income and started to look at me because I took a casino job and assumed I made over 6 figures per year because I am in I.T. (this was far from that) and I always wanted my own life. I bought my house in 2014, moved out from sleeping on the sofa because the living situation turned toxic from the few years living there.
It’s was like, everyone was always telling me to cut the rope between Her and I, but in reality it wasn’t a rope to cut she wasn’t just mom she was a friend that understood me the most and almost always had my back.
She did had her moments, as she was also vindictive; she used her skills in a time of need. She was possibly a great hacker with social engineering she may have not of been a good speller or knew how to code, but she was defiantly one with the words and how to manipulate them with people to bend the rules and get things she needed or at times wanted. If she can bend or break the system without being caught. She would and if it was to feed her family, she did it. However, if it were on an emotional level if she felt threatened, she would use it against others especially the ones she loved.
In the end she had to deal with a lot of deaths in her life mostly family of who she loved from her father, mother, step father, and her brothers who she loved and cared about the most in her life. She never really seeked out the help for them and dealt with a lot of that pain inside and let it hurt her inside.
Before she met my stepfather she had many abused relationships especially being 6 years old, watching some guy physically beat her up and down a hallway that happened often and helpless to do anything about it.
Her only family she had left was my uncle (her last brother) who lived with her all her life, my stepfather, my brother, my brother’s family and me. My uncle is 72 year old and is operating on a pacemaker so she is had been super afraid that if he would pass away before she does that she will most likely have lost her mind completely.
My mom and best friend, in loving memory. 10-31-1959 to 07-17-2019.
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Dorkmedia redesign is happening
Yeah, I am a 1 person army still trucking along after 20 years of this.
I am pushing back to free lance basic hosting again and very select on web design since my main focus is for WRnet’s consulting service with infosec.
My current network projects are the following
Dorkmedia -> Graphic and Web Design corner redesign
RavenPC -> Computer Hardware Project – currently setting up to where you can purchase my current pc setup built and secured by me making this my brand of pc line.
TougeSW -> Blog on Drift Experience in the South West (mainly vegas)
DC702 -> A defcon group for the local 702 (I figured and kinda inspired by the DC919 group) to start up a group.
The focus point and updates.
//11/11/2019 I wrote the bottom around June 14th. As an update to this, It was like I was going to conquer a fear and come out to my mom and stuff and let her be the bridge between and proceed further with coming out. But as my mom passed away, I have lost that fear instead I feel like that moment when Neo died in the matrix (part1) and Morpheus sat there lost of all hope and stunned. That is how I have been feeling. But yes I am transgender(transwoman) and I just don’t care what or who finds out anymore as I am going to live the life how I want to live it and no one can judge me on how I want to live it.’ This is me that has been hiding for a long time, if you have questions you have a multiple ways to contact me just contact me and don’t assume.
I am spawning WRNet’s Info Sec consulting to WRNET:Sec which I am about to launch by the end of this week.
//June 14th: Hi there, First of all welcome. I have been doing some updates and making more of a focus point of how I want to turn this into a business.
I have been streaming alot lately, I have taken a liking to this platform to learn others who come in and chill while I stream a video game or do some IRL stufff. I don’t use twitch to make money from instead I use it to reach out to future clients, friends, and / or potential partnerships.
If you visit my stream lately you get surprised of what you have find, it’s personal to me but it is a good way to be more of a business and friendship relationship building. Couple of things you will notice from my streams, that one I do advertise that I am a cancer survivor since 2003 and another would be I am actually a transwoman. On stream I have been open about it, but it is no big deal but it does being open places a target on my back if you want to know more feel free to visit my stream and ask me anything in that topic. This might be a shock to some but if I have not told you personally take this as a public release. For me personally nothing changes, I am still the same person who have known before just different and for once in my life I am happy and happy with myself and lets just leave it there.
So yeah, I am pushing WRNet to be more business related and with in time to be it’s own business entity.
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More changes are happening!
Yo,
I have an big announcement that I will post in a bit.
But in the mean time, I have made a huge changes that is including how you see the website. I am going to wrap more about my twitch stream here including some new warframe and other games stuff.
I am an Affiliated twitch streamer -> https://twitch.tv/WonderingRaven
Twitter -> WonderingRaven
Discord -> Here
IRC, coming soon! (meanwhile you can catch me here)
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