Today a friend of mine told me that while he was traveling that his laptop was stolen, unfortunately for him, it was his work laptop containing all his data, projects, presentations and a few clients data. Fortunately, he told me that the laptop was using truecrypt, that all the files contained on the laptop were [...]
Tagged 128-bit, AES, encrypted, Folder, mac, OS XDuring my search on “How to show the Library Folder on OS X Lion” I found an nice article talking about a hidden Wi-Fi Diagnostic Tool in OS X Lion, and after a few tests, I thought that it was a good idea to publish it on my blog as well. In Mac OS [...]
Tagged Diagnostics, hacking, OS X, Tools, Wi-Fi, WIFII discovered a few days ago that on my brand new version of OS X Lion, my library folder was hidden, and that the only way to access it was to use the Terminal. After a few searches on the web, I found the right command to apply to my Library folder. chflags : [...]
Today I had to create a PPTP VPN in a Debian virtual machine, therefore I installed the following packets : $sudo apt-get install pptpd $sudo apt-get install pptp $sudo apt-get instapp network-manager-pptp but when I tried to add the VPN ( in System -> Preferences -> Network Connections ) the “add” button was disabled. [...]
Today I searched how to export a path in OSX Lion for the installation of NetDiscover. After a few searches on Google I found the following blog post from Adam Jordens (link) explaining how Lion was managing the paths, I will resume it briefly. On most of the Linux distributions, and on the previous versions [...]
After playing a bit with a motorola Xoom tablet today I tried a few adb commands. adb reboot bootloader This command reboot your Android Device into the bootloader ( but on the Motorola xoom ). Once in fastboot, you get the following sentence: Starting Fastboot Protocol Support Once this happened you may play with the [...]
This 26 may, a researcher (Veronica Valero of Talsoft S.R.L.) posted a security threat affecting WordPress blogs on Direct Object Reference. A reply posted by “Zerial” on the mailing list explained another vulnerability on WordPress. It is possible via a simple test on the login box to know if a username is used on a [...]
Introduction: Facebook is very popular among the world, and loads of “hackers”/ “script kiddies” would like to send messages to your contacts for fun and profit. In this little quick and dirty review I will briefly analyse a worm that spreads on Facebook. Analyse: A few minutes ago, I was invited by a friend to [...]
Tagged Facebook, hacking, Javascript, Virus, WormThis is a brief “Sample configuration”, to create a VPN in the Packet tracer v5.3 Step 1: Add two routers 2811 Step 2: Here are the configuration files. hostname Left ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! crypto isakmp policy 5 encr 3des authentication pre-share group 2 lifetime 72000 ! crypto isakmp key cisco [...]
Tagged cisco, Packet Tracer, VPNA few years ago, I was staying in a student accommodation, where I had to pay to connect devices to the internet. Since I was doing a Master in Computer Science, I had many devices to connect and decided to buy a router / switch Cisco Linksys E2000 and use the Network Address Translation to [...]
Tagged iptables, Linux, NAT, Networking