Archive for October, 2006

HowTo: Mounting Remote Filesystems Using SSH

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Download the package source code and utils + assistant if you aren’t using debian like I this will be a bit different and is usually dependant on the package manager you are using (yum,apt-get,aptitude, YasT, etc)

root@azio.org:~# apt-get install shfs-source shfs-utils module-assistant
Now its time to build the kernel module for your system. Should work for 2.4 [...]

HowTo: Compiling a Kernel on Debian

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

This howto goes over some simple steps at compiling a 2.6 Kernel on a Debian Machine

apt-get install kernel-package ncurses-dev fakeroot wget bzip2
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/lhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
tar xjf linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
cd linux-2.6.18
cp /boot/config-* /usr/src/

this step copies your old configs to /usr/src so you can use them as a reference in compiling your new kernel. step 6 IS optional.

cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.18; [...]

Mythbusters beat the finger print security system

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

How to beat the finger print security system, the Mythbusters wayread more | digg story

Google Code Errors

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

A friend of mine has recently compiled a list of “errors” he found in Google, I thought it would be interesting to share them, and offer his ideas to a wider audience.

memcpy errors
the man page shows this as
void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n);
obviously the programmer has the parameters in the wrong order
backdoor passwords
crashes
python [...]

HowTo: Install and Configure a Proxy and OpenSSH Tunnels

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

For those of you wanting to run a cleancut and simple proxy on your linux boxxen, here is how you do it. It’s quite simple. Don’t be scared by the access lists. IP should be enough, however be aware of spoofing, its not too difficult - so if its possible for somebody to know what [...]

Google Fixes Search Engine, News Data, Video Data! Didn’t you know?

Friday, October 13th, 2006

A lot of you may remember my article that points to the internet becoming known for its news capability and efficiency (at least in europe) -  the new prime source of media coverage it’s concerning for some of us to hear google involves itself in censorship of its google video sub-division, and was caught fair [...]

HowTo: Find SSH Hackers IP’s in a jiffy

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Well I will keep this short and sweet:
Locate SSH hack attempts swiftly:

azio:/var/log# cat auth.log | grep refused

AND

azio:/var/log# zcat auth.log.*.gz | grep refused
Grabbing the unauthorised/nonexisting user attempts:

azio:/var/log# cat auth.log.0 | grep failed | awk ‘{print $9}’

The awk line takes out the single field on a Row Basis, its very neat if you just want user names [...]

SSH Hacking Prevention Guide

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Hello all , first things first, use more than 8 or 12 characters damnit! So I have decided to write a short article about SSH Hacking, perhaps I should have really named it SHA-2 hacking, or SSHD hacking or a combination, I’m really not sure. As a lot of you will probably already know , [...]

New Microsoft Office Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Danger: Critical
Impact: System Access
Where: from remote
Solution Status: vendor patch
Affected Softwares:

Microsoft Access 2000
Microsoft Access 2002
Microsoft Access 2003
Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003
Microsoft Frontpage 2000
Microsoft Frontpage 2002
Microsoft Frontpage 2003
Microsoft InfoPath 2003
Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
Microsoft Office [...]

Intel Duo Quad Processor + Nvidia Demo

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Introduction to Intel’s latest Quad Processor
Today, I came accross the new Intel Duo Quad Chip and BOY its something. The alan wake demo featured in this 5 minute exclusive clip is beyond just astounding, the quality of the video on youtube could be better im afraid, but I think we all get the idea of [...]

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