IT Dribble

While it may sound silly this is whats happening with vendors implementation of providing a ‘convenient’ end user solution for ‘security’. Imagine your local bank and the massive safe that lives within the walls of that building. Now think of the huge steel vault door that protects the banks (well actually, your) money – pretty safe huh? Wrong. (more…)

Had an interesting scenario at a clients yesterday. After a recent upgrade of their infrastructure of Blackberry Enterprise Server to Service Pack 2 MR 2 they couldn’t sign into the BES Console with both Active Directory credentials or local BES accounts. It seems that they had two compounding issues (more…)

Here is a great list of tools for troubleshooting Citrix Issues: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX107572

awk ‘/:/ {name=$1} ; /lastu/ {print name $3}’ /input/filename

So I was having a hunt around for the modified version of Netcat which is called Ncat developed by the lovely people who wrote the infamous port scanner Nmap. I needed the Win32 binaries for it and after a brief internet trowel it couldn’t be found. So I downloaded the source and compiled it and made it presentable for download for everyone else. Version 1 – Packed with UPX Packer. Version 2 – Not Packed. Happy Ncatting

I was using Windows based SSH box the other day and I needed to get some files, but the only options on a limited Windows (XP) box are ftp and the files I wanted were on HTTP so I hunted around and added to a vbscript which created a Wget type script which works via VBScript (which is avaliable on a limited XP Box)
Something else which is good about this script is that it uses Internet Explorer Proxy settings automatically, so if you are behind a corporate firewall and need to go through a proxy it does this automatically for you!

' VBScript based WGET - Changes by Cam McKenzie
' cam.mckenzie --at-- gmail --dot-- com
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It seems that John the Ripper (JtR) has been out done with some of the latest hashing cracking software in the business! Hashcat and oclHashcat (hashcat.net) is forging ahead with over 33 and 13 hash types respectivley which are able to be cracked. Did I mention oclHashcat uses the GPU of CUDA based video cards for seriously parallel processing? Well it does.

Its seems that Google have changed some of their code for maps website and users are experienicing a dialogue box popup with the message:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en
Operation aborted

It seem the solution is to install Microsoft’s MS10-071: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (KB2360131)

Using this website PCI Database.
Just enter the Vendor or Device ID and boom thats the unknown hardware device!

I created this script out of frustration at work due to people using different systems to access the AIX box and not getting told that their password was due to expire. I then modified it later to then lookup the email address within Windows Active Directory and email the user (more…)