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Cheat sheet : Installing Snorby 2.2 with Apache2 and Suricata with Barnyard2 on Ubuntu 10.x

After spending a few hours fighting a battle against Snorby and Apache2 + Passenger, I finally managed to get it to run properly on my Ubunty 10.x box (32bit). Looking back, I figured I might not be the only one who is having issues with this. So I decided to publish the notes I took while setting everything up, and as a little bonus, explain how to install and configure Suricata as well (configured in combination with barnyard2 which will pick up local logs and send them to the remote MySQL server). Read more
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Script to backup Cisco switches via telnet / tftp

A couple of days ago, I have released a small perl script to back up Cisco IOS based switches via telnet.

I know there are a couple of similar scripts available on the internet, but most of them either Read more

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Backtrack 4 cheat sheet

Download backtrack from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html. Current version at the time of writing is BT4 Pre-Final.This document is based on BT4 pre-final. Ergo, some of the instructions below may not work with other versions of BT.

FYI : An excellent guide Read more

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Juniper ScreenOS : defeating iBGP full mesh requirement using route reflectors and confederations

As explained in one of my earlier posts, one of the requirements to successfully setup and operate an iBGP configuration is that all iBGP clients need to have a BGP connection to all other iBGP clients. (= full Read more

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Cheatsheet : Cracking WPA2 PSK with Backtrack 4, aircrack-ng and John The Ripper

Basic steps :

  • Put interface in monitor mode
  • Find wireless network (protected with WPA2 and a Pre Shared Key)
  • Capture all packets
  • Wait until you see a client and deauthenticate the client, so the handshake can be captured
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Using Fedora 9 as an OSPF / BGP router (Quagga / Zebra) and set up BGP between Linux and Juniper ScreenOS

In this post, I’m going to show you how to set up a Linux host (Fedora Core 9) and use it as a BGP enabled router. 

In order to fully understand the setup & configuration, please have a look Read more

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Creating and installing lzm modules in Backtrack 2

Today, I will explain how you can create your own lzm modules & patch the backtrack 2 final ISO file (by adding your new module).

First of all, get a fresh copy of the bt2final.iso file from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html

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Connect to Openfiler SAN using CHAP authentication (MS iSCSI Initiator)

Assuming that you’ve made yourself familiar with the procedure on how to allow/deny access to a specific lun based upon IP addresses, then you might have wondered if you can secure access to a LUN even more. After all, Read more

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Bind network interfaces on Linux for redundancy, load balancing and performance

If you have multiple network interfaces in your linux machine (and ideally they have the same speed & duplex), you may want to ‘bind’ the adapters together to increase bandwidth and create some redundancy.

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Running Snort with Dynamic IP on Fedora

One of my Linux boxes has a direct cable connection to the internet. I’ve been using Snort in corporate environments for a long time now, but I never had to configure snort to look at interfaces that have a Read more

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