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arping – Backtrack 5 – Information Gathering – Network Analysis – Identify Live Hosts – arping

alex — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:48:36 +0000

The arping application is a simple command that will allow you to ping devices by hostname, IP address, or MAC address. The unfortunate part is that most device will not respond to the arp requests, which are directed broadcast ICMP echo requests, though there are some out there that do. I go into more detail [...]

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Authenticate Linux To Active Directory On Windows – Centrify Express

alex — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:44:20 +0000

I was working with a coworker today to setup a new Redmine server running on top of Ubunut 12.04 and one of the steps we completed in the process was setting up LDAP authentication in Redmine. Setting up LDAP authentication in Redmine requires the server running Redmine to be joined to the Windows Active Directory [...]

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dnsenum – Backtrack 5 – Information Gathering – Network Analysis – DNS Analysis – dnsenum

alex — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 06:16:40 +0000

The dnsenum.pl Perl script as described in its Perl documentation is a multithreaded script to enumerate information on a domain and to discover non-contiguous IP blocks. So the gist of dnsenum is to gather information about a specific domain using various sources. Information gathered about a domain includes sub domains, associated IP ranges, name servers, [...]

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dnsenum Returning Odd Characters After Installing Options Perl Modules On Backtrack 5

alex — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:31:05 +0000

While working on an upcoming article for QD I ran into an issue with the dnsenum.pl Perl script. I followed the process of installing the optional Perl modules and when I went back to test dnsenum it would no longer return any IP addresses. Instead of dnsenum returning actual IP addresses it was returning odd [...]

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Installing rvm and ruby in OSX Mountain Lion

Enrique — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:22:35 +0000

I recently moved into Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8) and the first thing I wanted was to install rvm to be able to get ruby 1.9.3 in the machine and be able to do some development with it, but as usual it was not as easy as it seemed (The joke is on me!) so here [...]

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capinfos : Backtrack 5: Non Menu Items: CLI Commands: capinfos

alex — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:26:08 +0000

Ever located an old capture file and you weren’t sure what was in it or needed to grab some quick statistics about another capture file? What about needed to run statistics on multiple capture files and present them via a database or a spreadsheet? Well if you have ever run into any of these scenarios [...]

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My Backup Pro For Google Nexus 7 Won’t Accept Email & Password

alex — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:45:35 +0000

I downloaded My Backup Pro to use as a secondary backup on my Google Nexus 7 device which is running Android 4.2. When attempting to configure the the email address and password associated to the My Backup Pro account it continued to reject the information I was providing. Initially I thought the password must be [...]

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Backup Google Nexus 7 To Mac OSX Mountain Lion

alex — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:09:23 +0000

I have never had an Android device before so pretty much everything is new to me at this point. I will be writing a bunch of articles regarding the basics of Android and more specifically the basics of Android 4.2 on a Google Nexus 7. In the process of working to root the Nexus 7 [...]

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Title OSX Keyboard Shortcut For Insert Date And Time, Insert Date/Time In TextMate

alex — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:49:41 +0000

I use TextMate on Mac OSX Mountain Lion to write notes. One thing I find myself needing a bunch is to insert the current date and time so I can track specific events. For instance if I am writing an article for Question-Defense.com and I am doing the initial formatting in TextMate, which is a [...]

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Connect Google Nexus 7 To Mac OSX Mountain Lion

alex — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:44:06 +0000

If you recently purchased a Google Nexus 7 you likely will think, like I did, that you will plug it into your Mac and it will mount automatically so you can browse the disk. Unfortunately that is not the case and it takes installing the Android File Transfer app. The reason for this is the [...]

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btscanner: Update OUI List – Vendor Organizationally Unique Identifier List

alex — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:31:39 +0000

If you use btscanner, which is a Bluetooth scanner found in Backtrack Linux, a lot like I do then you will notice that the Public OUI list included is pretty far out of date. The OUI or Organizationally Unique Identifier list is what matches MAC addresses to manufacturers or vendors. This is how you can determine [...]

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Developer Options Not Showing On Google Nexus 7 Android Version 4.2.1 Build JPO40D

alex — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:26:20 +0000

I just started getting a little time to play around with my new Google Nexus 7 32GB tablet and so far I am loving it. It will be the first Android device that I have spent much time on so its pretty exciting! I love the size of the Nexus 7 because it still fits [...]

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A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug? – Internet Explorer 5 – Windows 2000 SP2

alex — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:29:59 +0000

I have been working with some older versions of Windows 2000 lately including Windows 2000 SP2 or Service Pack 2. On this version of Windows 2000 SP2 the version of Internet Explorer or IE is 5.00.3315.1000 which is completely outdated. I doubt that many others will be running into Runtime Errors however it is possible [...]

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Linux NFS Error: svc: failed to register nfsdv2 RPC service (errno 111)

alex — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:19:26 +0000

Earlier today I was troubleshooting NFS or Network File System issues on a Ubuntu Linux server and ran into some specific errors. Luckily the errors were easily resolved by restarting portmap on the server. Below I show the error output on the server end in more detail, how to resolve the issue, and testing the [...]

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Google Calendar – Can Only Share Calendar In See Only Free/Busy (Hide Details) Mode

alex — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:02:32 +0000

This morning I was attempting to share one of my Google Apps Google Calendars with my default Gmail account with full access rights however it kept changing the sharing mode from Manage Changes and Manage Sharing to See Only Free/Busy (Hide Details). At first I thought it had to do with the calendar I was [...]

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Pretty Link Pro – Tweet Post After Publishing

alex — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:56:16 +0000

We use the Pretty Link Pro WordPress plugin, which is a bargain and can be purchased by clicking here, to tweet articles under the @questiondefense Twitter account. This not only is easy to do with Pretty Link Pro but it provides a great method of driving traffic to our articles here on Question-Defense.com. There have [...]

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cut – Represent A Tab As The Delimiter With Linux cut Command

alex — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:31:07 +0000

I have been using the cut command a lot recently to shed extra data from large text files. I typically use cut with a specific delimiter by activating the -d switch and I thought that the -d switch was required. It turns out that -d is not required and by default -d actually defaults to [...]

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Screenshots – Configure Keyboard Shortcuts For Backtrack Linux

alex — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:10:47 +0000

Since I write a lot of articles about Backtrack Linux it is nice to have keyboard shortcuts for different screenshot commands. The two screenshot commands that I use most in Backtrack are “gnome-screenshot -w” and “gnome-screenshot”. The gnome-screenshot command will take a screenshot of the entire desktop while “gnome-screenshot -w” will take a screenshot of [...]

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PCRE Regex Filters For Kismet On Backtrack Linux

alex — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 03:21:13 +0000

If you decide to remove the default kismet install on Backtrack Linux so you can then compile kismet from source you will be missing some functionality. One of the bits of functionality not installed by default on Backtrack 5 release 3 is the PCRE Regex Filters. You can easily enable this functionality by installing a [...]

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Static Source Code Audit On Terminal Using Bash Functions

Enrique — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:17:58 +0000

For anyone that has done a long source code audit is not about really finding the easy/low hanging fruit stuff that can be slow and sometimes a bit “frustrating”. I recently had a nice 660,000 lines of code source code audit to be done in less than 2 weeks, the language was Java, so the [...]

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