In my line of work we encourage encrypted communications and securing sensitive data especially when it comes to PII.
However it’s increasingly common to see systems put into place that are obviously only there to mitigate litigation aspects should anything go wrong.
Take American Express for example:
An email from them asking you to send a copy of your passport/driving licence/etc… to confirm your identity suggests that you may reply… Continue reading
So on 21st May 2012 version 6 of nmap was released. Only issue is that they dont seem to release a deb package for it.
No big deal we’ll just have to build our own (tested on BT5r2 32+64bit)…
1234567891011echo "deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid-security main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install libssl-dev checkinstall wget http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.00.tar.bz2 bzip2 -cd nmap-6.00.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - cd nmap-6.00 ./configure make checkinstall --install=no… Continue readingFigured I’d keep a copy of this on here for the next time I need to do malware investigation.
- urlvoid.com – checks URL’s against lots of blacklists, emergingthreats, malwaredomainlist and zeustracker/etc…
- ipvoid.com – Same as above but for IP addresses
- support.clean-mx.de – Searches above databases and records logs of abuse claims. Useful as it can sometime give you extra URI’s for a host to comb your logs for. Also usefully… Continue reading
So the only reason I use windows is due to needing to use IE with some app tests, the rest is done from BackTrack.
At the GlosLUG meeting last night someone mentioned an automated script for installing IE6 under wine so I thought I would give it a go.
IEs 4 Linux uses wine and downloads everything else thats needed from Microsoft so things work great.
The first thing you… Continue reading
So I used a test script made by atom a while back to create a bit of code that outputs a hash for a given password. It didn’t support stdin so I thought I would update it, and here it is.
Note: Don’t copy/paste the code, instead get it from here: googlecode.com
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