This has been going since last week of April but it looks like it was unavailable for some customers according to comments on lifehacker, however I happened to be going through Windows Live services and saw I was qualified for the free upgrade!
So if you’re still looking at 7GB, go see if you’re eligible! https://skydrive.live.com
Made available at the beginning of this month, I’ve had some time to play around with the new 2.8 and I just love the new update! The Gimp Team has definitely been hard at work, some things have been moved around so it will take some getting used to but it’s a welcomed update. The Windows installer is 72.7MB, http://www.gimp.org/downloads/. See Arstechnica for a more thorough review.
From gimp.org;
“We are happy to announce immediate availability of GIMP 2.8 — a new stable version of GNU Image Manipulation Program that culminates 3.5 years of exciting work.
With this version we are introducing some long-anticipated features such as layer groups, on-canvas text editing, advanced brush dynamics and the much desired optional single-window mode. We also started applying other important changes to the user interface that bring us closer to matching the product vision.
For detailed information about changes since 2.6 please read the release notes. Source code is available for downloadingfrom a plethora of mirrors, a build for Windows will soon be available, and we hope to see a build for Mac OS X released as well.
We’d like to thank everyone who participated in development of GIMP 2.8: programmers, translators, documentation writers (updated user manual is a work in progress), and testers. We also thank our user community for the dedication and support — we needed it more than ever.
Now that this version is finally released, we are grasping the future with both hands. Stay tuned: some really exciting news will follow.”
This scenario is for SOHO networking, we will not be touching on enterprise solutions. You will need at least two Wireless Access Points. This will work whether you have an Open network or Secured network. The we will be using consumer grade Linksys, Netgear, and Rosewill wireless routers.
Goal
WAPs with the same SSID and encryption method joined together by Cat6 ethernet, to provide roaming access throughout a building; specifically, to provide one secure network on the user’s side, this means automatic switching between the two WAPs. The advantage over using a repeater or wireless bridge is greater speed, both WAPs experience equal up/down speeds. Continue reading
Sam Bowne is a Network & Security professor at City College San Francisco. Below is a snippet (approx. 2.5hrs) from December 2010 from a lecture he gave at Convergence Technology Center’s Winter Retreat at Collin College in Frisco Texas concerning IPv6 and why and how we will be implementing it over the next decade. Continue reading
There’s this little old Dell workstation, two 80GB drives in RAID1, been running 24/7 for the past several years or so, minus power outages, and the time came that one of the drives gave up the ghost. The Intel RAID utility warned of the dying drive, and within a few days the drive started clicking and disappeared from the BIOS.
Because these drives are relatively old, and the only option for a replacement is eBay, I ended up replacing the old Samsung HD080HJ/P with a brand new WD1600AAJS, I did not worry about partitioning because there’s plenty of external storage on the machine and I may end up replacing the other drive. The RAID recognized the new drive and started rebuilding the array within Windows.
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I also took the time to physically clean up the machine, granted it was in “excellent” shape compared to most workstations I’ve seen.
Action shots coming soon! I configured ICS and DNS Poisening and had some fun with a bunch of guys as we played around with the Pineapple, it picked up devices thinking they were connecting to the free public Wi-Fi or non-existent connections, we gave DNS Poisening the majority of time, taking down zombo.com from the LAN was saddening to some, but that wasn’t as bad as intercepting credentials.
This is a sweet tool, every student and tech that is serious about networking and security should own a Pineapple.
To order your very own Pineapple Mark IV from Hak5, go to hakshop.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/wifi-pineapple.
It works perfectly too, well, after I flashed it with dd-wrt!
These Linksys WRT54G routers are so great, they last forever and the dd-wrt breaths new life into them by keeping them current and running smoothly, not to mention the features.
This little guy is the fourth revision with SpeedBooster, these Broadcom chips have a theoretical 125Mbit/s thorough-put on 802.11G.
Just another tool to add to my security closet! Now if only I can get my hands on a pineapple…
Apparently, that is when Windows Backup is scheduled to run again. They only thing that comes close to this is the “Time remaining” counter going up.
There’s a thread on TechNet (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/411a849a-aff3-4fa7-a2b0-5286e13a65a6) detailing this issue, the trick is to delete the Windows Backup task via Task Scheduler, and recreate it using Windows Backup.
One thing I quickly learned to love in Linux is Workspaces, being a dual monitor guy I thought it was a neat feature for those who don’t have a secondary monitor, or when you’re on the go and without a second for your mobile workstation. Being the tech I am, I took to Google and found a free Windows version of Workspaces, Desktops. Develeoped by Sysinternals, Desktops allows the use of 4 virtual desktops. Continue reading
Any version of Windows with IPv6 installed and running is vulnerable to a DoS attack by sending thousands of Router Assignment (RA) packets. This vulnerability has been known since mid 2010, and you’re not the only one wondering why this hasn’t been patched yet. Here is a video demonstrating the attack on a LAN with 7, XP and virtual machines.
So as you can imagine, I wanted to give this a shot. I setup my VLAN and was astonished by the simplicity of the attack. Continue reading
Broadcasting the SSID of your router is the same as you audibly telling everyone your name right? So, it would be better if someone needed to know your name and the secret handshake to gain access to the WLAN… right? Continue reading
Previously, I gave you a quick run-down on cracking a WPA secured network, today I will be showing you how easy it is to crack a WEP secured network. Today’s lab is a Cisco E2100L, 64bit Open, and running dd-wrt. There are no clients on the network, but if there were clients on the network, I would still opt for the active attack.
Your card most support monitor mode and packet injection! If your laptop is relatively new, don’t expect BackTrack to work out of the box. Consult Aircrack-ng’s wiki for details regarding compatibility. The command parameters in this guide should be self explanatory (with the aid of screenshots), but that information can also be found in the wiki. Continue reading
Malwarebytes Corporation is widely known for its (free) standalone anti-virus scanner, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM); having used it for nearly every virus removal, I have found it to be light-weight, easy-to-use, and it removes the bad guys 99% of the time. I run MBAM PRO on some of my personal machines and my family’s machines. My personal laptop sees various anti-malware applications on a regular basis. MBAM is just one of the few anti-malware scanners I recommend.
The free version is an on-demand scanner, so you will not see scheduled tasks, real-time protection, or their new feature, a flash memory scanner… Alright, enough inadvertent advertising, let’s talk about MBAM.
One of Windows’ inconvenient limitations is the lack of VHD support, namely, being able to attach the VHD on startup automatically; the way around this is fairly easy and unobtrusive to the user, without the need to install third-party software. We will be utilizing Task Scheduler. Continue reading
In some scenarios, you may want to change/spoof (or clone) your MAC address; this task is easily accomplished within Backtrack: Open Terminal and run the following commands. Replace wlan0 with your specific interface (run ifconfig).
ifconfig wlan0 down macchanger --mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 wlan0
Reboot the computer to restore your MAC address. Note you will not be able to use reserved addresses, broadcast, etcetera.