ramblings on various information security topics
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It turns out that the install of R1 pretty much uses up close to 8GB, actually about 7, but who's counting. Thanks to Tim who left a comment to this effect.
Anyway, this doesn't leave enough room to do much of anything, including install future updates. For that reason I have increased the minimum drive size [...]
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Both Backtrack 4 how-tos have had minor updates made. The Full Disk encryption how-to has had the boot partition increased to 120 MB and the USB/Persistent Changes/Nessus how-to has had the FAT partition increased to 2500 MB.
So far these are the only two changes that had to be made. There will be further updates coming [...]
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This is just a quick note to introduce the video I made using my Backtrack 4 - Bootable USB Thumb Drive with "Full" Disk Encryption how-to. You can find the video here.
As always, comments, corrections, and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
-Kevin
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I made some minor updates to to my Backtrack 4 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption.
I fixed a few typos and added a section towards the end that shows how to mount your encrypted volume from the Live CD/USB drive in the event you have issues and need to fix things.
I also [...]
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I have made an important update to the Backtrack 4 USB "Full" Encryption How-to.
I forgot to include the step where you select the drive install the boot loader to. Missing this step can cause the operating system on the machine you are using to not boot. Please review the how-to.
Below are some links to instructions [...]
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If you do any sort of technical writing on WordPress, you have likely run into the wonderful little quirk of it turning your lovingly formatted double dashes '--' into singe em dashes. Rather annoying.
To add insult to injury, the silly thing shows them as double dashes in the editor, but then renders them as em [...]
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Network Access Control (NAC) was touted to be the end-all be-all technology that would answer all the our prayers for a way to ensure that only authorized devices can access our networks. Several years later, NAC is still around, but not as prevalent as you would think it would be.
Jennifer Jabbusch, the author of Security [...]
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Hi folks.
The Backtrack 4 USB Drive How-to has undergone a huge re-write. One of the largest changes is that we are no longer using UNetBootin except for one minor thing and then only if you want to. Everything is done from within Backtrack itself now.
Another change is that I have added instructions on setting up [...]
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I participated in the Nebraska CERT Conference this week and gave a talk on Building the Perfect Backtrack 4USB Thumb Drive. Below is the slide deck from my talk.
Let me know if you have any comments or questions.
-Kevin
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Hi there folks.
With the final release of Backtrack 4 Final right around the corner, I thought I would get ahead of the curve and update the how-to. I have access to the pre-final via the Informer.
The updated version is where the original Beta instructions used to live. I have copied the Beta instructions to a [...]
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