The Backtrack 4 Final release happened today.
Both the Backtrack 4 USB/Persistent Changes/Nessus how-to and the Backtrack 4 with "Full" Disk Encryption how-to have been updated to reflect this release.
-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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My Backtrack 4 – USB/Persistent Changes/Nessus How-To has been updated again. Changes below
Updated Nessus install procedures for version 4.2.0.
Moved the 'apt-get upgrade' section to before the Truecrypt volume creation section. We now have enough updates that the initial update runs out of disk space before completing if the Truecrypt volume was created first.
The updated version [...]
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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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Woot. Offensive Security has released Backtrack 4 Pre-Final to the public.
I updated my Backtrack 4 USB/Persistent Changes/Nessus How-to a couple weeks ago with instructions, but a public link was not available. The how-to has been updated with download locations and links to the md5sum and sha256sums.
Have fun.
-Kevin
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Well, sometimes copy and paste works and sometimes it doesn't. The link was broken. Go here: http://iv.cs.uni-bonn.de/wg/cs/applications/containing-conficker/
About half way down the page is a proof of concept network scanner put together by Felix Leder and Tillman that can detect if a system is infected with Conficker. No system access or authentication needed. Great job gentlemen.
I [...]
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Yup. You guessed it. A new how-to that walks you through creating a bootable Backtrack 4 USB thumbdrive. This time we don't need to worry about updating Firefox or nmap though. You can find it at the link below.
Backtrack 4 - USB/Persistent Changes/Nessus
As always, let me know if you find any problems or have any [...]
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In today's Bits post, I mentioned that a top 25 coding errors report was going to be issued today. Well, it's happened. From the SANS website:
Today in Washington, DC, experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to [...]
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@hevnsnt posted the following message to Twitter this morning.
hevnsnt watching Strand's hacker vids at http://vimeo.com/user595761/videos
There are some nice videos there. Here are the titles of a few with direct links:
Password Cracking
Basic Netcat Usage
IDS and Packets
Definitely worth spending some time on.
-Kevin
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