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OS X Firewall Not Stealth

Published on April 19, 2012, by in osx.

By default, the OS X Lion firewall enabled and stealth actually has a few ports open, despite the System Preferences displaying no services running and no ports open. A nessus scan will reveal the following UDP ports open and broadcasting information: 5353 / UDP 123 / UDP 127 / UDP Note: Ignore port 4242 TCP

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Expand Windows 7 VirtualBox Hard Drive

Published on April 12, 2012, by in windows.

Out of space with your Windows 7 VirtualBox instance? No need to reinstall the vm. Using the free bootable iso clonezilla, you can clone your Windows 7 VirtualBox guest to a larger hard drive. I’ll show you how! 1. Download a copy of the latest stable clonezilla iso: http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php 2. Add a second larger virtual

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Privacy Search Engine

Published on April 3, 2012, by in other.

Privacy and the internet is a hot topic, especially in regards to search engines. There are, however, a few alternatives available that can be used for more privacy in searching or as an all around replacement for your current home page. For an alternative to Google or Bing, there are a couple of search engines

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HandBrake could not find VLC or your VLC is incompatible

Published on April 3, 2012, by in osx.

HandBrake could not find VLC or your VLC is incompatible (Note: 32 bit vlc is not compatible with 64 bit HandBrake and vice-versa). If you see this message, it is because VLC since version 2.0 no longer provides the libdvdcss that decodes DVDs for HandBrake. For a fix, install a copy of libdvdcss from videolan.org,

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Linux Tycoon – lunduke.com

Published on April 2, 2012, by in linux.

Linux Tycoon is a simple game by the Linux Action Show’s Bryan Lunduke. I gave it a spin, and so far the scottlinux distro is having mixed reviews. :) It is a surprising amount of fun even though it is a simple app. Check it out!

Samsung Galaxy S2 Sample Camera Pictures

Published on April 1, 2012, by in android.

I just picked up a Galaxy S2 refurb from ATT for a penny. I was pleasantly surprised by the camera! The Galaxy S2 has an 8MP camera which takes fairly good pictures. Here are some example shots I took today: Original images off the camera available here (21MB .zip).

Fun with SHODAN

Published on March 30, 2012, by in linux, sysadmin, windows.

Shodanhq.com is awesome. These are fun: http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=X-Powered-By%3A+PHP%2F5.1.2 Many sites running old PHP from 2006. Edit as desired to find an old php target. http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=X-AspNet-Version%3A+1.1.4322 Incredible how many sites still use ASP .NET 1.x http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=%22cisco-ios%22+%22last-modified%22 Web management pages for Cisco devices that have authentication disabled. http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=Server%3A+Microsoft-IIS%2F5.0+ IIS 5.0 http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=Server%3A+Apache%2F1. Ancient versions of Apache still in use

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