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OS X Version of LDD

If you need to use the ldd command on OS X you will face an error. ldd -bash: ldd: command not found However, there is a “similar” command called otool  on OS X that you can use : otool -L myExecutable For the one who never used it,  the ldd  command is used to show the [...]

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Digital Forensic Examination 101 — Part 1

Digital Forensic Examination also known as Forensic Science is used to recover digital data, this science is often used to find evidence on computers, usb keys, and mobiles but forensic examination can also be used to recover data after a computer crash.  This tutorial will try to help you understand the basics of forensic examination [...]

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[Review] Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking

I have been reading the “Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking” twice lately, the first time to have an overview of the book, and the second time to improve the techniques I tried to apply after my first reading. My first reading was fast, I wanted to know what techniques Christopher Hadnagy (the author) [...]

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C Language Tricks

I have been using C for a couple of years now and I always thought about writing a small post about C tricks I learnt over the years, and here I am. This morning I basically came acros a website showing a few C tricks that I already used and I finally got the inspiration [...]

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Basic Shellcode Analysis

Analyzing a shellcode is always instructive, it can give the penetration tester hints about what is used in it, or the penetration tester can learn about the techniques used, but he might also prevent himself to use destructive shellcodes. After a few searches on the Internet I found a pastebin page to illustrate my example. [...]

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SSH known host on OSX

To manage my multiple machines and test computers on my local network I use SSH, and often after reinstalling a test machine I want to connect back by SSH and my Mac just pops me back this message : noktec:release Noktec$ ssh xavier@192.168.0.2 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS [...]

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Installing Gerix on Ubuntu from Backtrack’s repository

GerixWiFiCracker is GUI for Aircrack-ng suite, is designed for pentesting in a realworld with efficent and userfriendly graphic interface. Note: This small tutorial is based on the repositories from backtrack 5 R1 and ubuntu 11.10 The first step is to add those lines to “etc/apt/sources.list” deb http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing deb http://32.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution [...]

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Purge OS X inactive Memory

The memory in OSX is divided in four important categories such as shown below :   Those “types” of memory combined together are the full size of your ram, in my case 8Gb. Each type as a specific function in OS X those are described below : Free: This is RAM that’s not being used. [...]

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Glossary in LaTeX

As I was Finishing my MSc thesis today I wanted to create a glossary with LaTex, but it was very difficult to find a tutorial or even basic steps to create one, without having to change something, so I decided to create a small “tutorial” on how to create a glossary with LaTeX. The first [...]

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“Hacking” Friends Hotmail’s Accounts

There are a few existing ways of hacking an hotmail account, such as brute-force, or the secrete answer/question, but today I(and friends) found another “way” of doing it (that I never heard before) Long story short : To make it work, the hacker needs to know the “save” e-mail address, and hope, this address has [...]

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