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Emacs is a very challenging editor to learn to use visual learners that are raised with Microsoft Word and other visual (read more or less over-engineered editors) so to help alleviate the keyboard navigation blues, a guy called Steven Chan has created a Emacs Visual Cheat Sheet, which is as the names mentions visual and provides an easy way to learn emacs and the most common keyboard shortcuts.

The cheat sheet includes navigation commands, the most common commands for Open/Save/Close, working with buffers, searching, and Copy/Cut/Paste edit functionality.

Download the Emacs Visual Cheat Sheet.

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The German authorities are encouraging Internet users to immediately abandon the use of Internet Explorer for security reasons.

The Web browser from Microsoft is the most widespread in the world, but the German authorities consider that the Internet Explorer is vulnerable to attacks from hackers. The warning comes from the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, which is a department in charge of overall IT security in Germany.

Vulnerability Triggers The Concern
Authorities advises citizens to use alternative browsers. A web browser is a computer application that is used to retrieve and display among other web pages from servers around the world.

The concern arised when Google last month, was attacked by Chinese criminals or authorities, where many e-mail accounts were hacked. Hackers also tried to break into approx. 30 companies.

Microsoft rejects the warning and finds that the risk of attacks against ordinary users is low. A spokesman for Microsoft in Germany, Thomas Baumgaertner, therefore states, that the German authorities over-react: “The attack was not directed against ordinary citizens or consumers. It is not a threat to the general user, and therefore we are not up hills on this warning.

New updates on the way it is version 6, 7 and 8 of Internet Explorer
Microsoft said the company already has started to solve problems and that new updates are coming. Windows systems; XP, Vista and Windows 7 are apparently is affected by the vulnerability.

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are both good an better designed alternatives to Internet Explorer.

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THC-Hydra – the best parallized login hacker: for Samba, FTP, POP3, IMAP, Telnet, HTTP Auth, LDAP, NNTP, MySQL, VNC, ICQ, Socks5, PCNFS, Cisco and more.

Download THC-Hydra, extract and compile

wget http://freeworld.thc.org/releases/hydra-5.4-src.tar.gz
tar zxvf hydra-5.4-src.tar.gz
cd hydra-5.4-src
./configure --disable-xhydra --prefix=~/bin
make
make install

Hydra v5.4 [http://www.thc.org] (c) 2009 by van Hauser / THC 

Syntax: hydra [[[-l LOGIN|-L FILE] [-p PASS|-P FILE]] | [-C FILE]] [-e ns]
 [-o FILE] [-t TASKS] [-M FILE [-T TASKS]] [-w TIME] [-f] [-s PORT] [-S] [-vV]
 server service [OPT]

Options:
  -R        restore a previous aborted/crashed session
  -S        connect via SSL
  -s PORT   if the service is on a different default port, define it here
  -l LOGIN or -L FILE login with LOGIN name, or load several logins from FILE
  -p PASS  or -P FILE try password PASS, or load several passwords from FILE
  -e ns     additional checks, "n" for null password, "s" try login as pass
  -C FILE   colon seperated "login:pass" format, instead of -L/-P options
  -M FILE   server list for parallel attacks, -T TASKS sets max tasks per host
  -o FILE   write found login/password pairs to FILE instead of stdout
  -f        exit after the first found login/password pair (per host if -M)
  -t TASKS  run TASKS number of connects in parallel (default: 16)
  -w TIME   defines the max wait time in seconds for responses (default: 30)
  -v / -V   verbose mode / show login+pass combination for each attempt
  server    the target server (use either this OR the -M option)
  service   the service to crack. Supported protocols: [telnet ftp pop3 imap smb
 smbnt http https http-proxy cisco cisco-enable ldap mssql mysql nntp vnc rexec
socks5 snmp cvs icq pcnfs sapr3 ssh2 smtp-auth]
  OPT       some service modules need special input (see README!)

Use HYDRA_PROXY_HTTP/HYDRA_PROXY_CONNECT and HYDRA_PROXY_AUTH env for a proxy.
Hydra is a tool to guess/crack valid login/password pairs - use allowed only for

legal purposes! If used commercially, name and web address must be mentioned in
the report. You can always find the newest version at http://www.thc.org

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Carwhisperer is a new tool, which allows people equipped with a Linux Laptop and a directional antenna to inject audio to, and record audio from bypassing cars that have an unconnected Bluetooth handsfree unit running. Since many manufacturers use a standard passkey which often is the only authentication that is needed to connect.

This tool allows to interact with other drivers when travelling or maybe used in order to talk to that pushy Audi driver right behind you . It also allows to eavesdrop conversations in the inside of the car by accessing the microphone.

Installation Guidelines

Install libbluetooth-dev

sudo aptitude install libbluetooth-dev

Download Carwhisperer, untar and compile carwhisperer

wget http://trifinite.org/Downloads/carwhisperer-0.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf carwhisperer-0.2.tar.gz
cd carwhisperer-0.2
make

Download simple passkey agent
A simple passkey agent is needed, a passkey agent, which is written to automatically return pin code 0000 to all bluetooth pin requests.

wget http://mediakey.dk/~cc/files/simple-agent
# Kill the existing passkey agent
pkill -9 bluetooth-applet
chmod +x simple-agent
./simple-agent

Run Carwhisperer

./cw_scanner

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Energinet.dk provides realtime information on the Danish electricity grid with the production of electricity in Denmark and the exchange with the neighbouring countries.

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First, let me remind you that Windows security is very bad in relation to password storage, so it is very easy to recover, crack / hack your own windows administrator password. (remember that you should only crack our own accounts and not other users’ accounts without having the necessary permissions).

The tool we are going to use is called Ophcrack, which is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.

How to perform the actual password crack / recovery / hack

• Download the Ophcrack Live CD from here.
• Burn and boot the Ophcrack Live CD
• When Ophcrack finishes booting (it take a while, so be patient), you’ll see a list of all of the accounts available in your Windows installation. Click on Launch to initialize the cracking process.
• As Ophcrack starts working, you’ll see several strange letter combinations appearing in the LMpasswd1 and LMpasswd2 fields.

I’m really impressed by the ease and speed that Ophcrack delivers. I managed to crack / hack / recover my Windows admin password in just 30 minutes, even though I used a password generator to generate a “secure” 8 letter alphanumeric password

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Audacity (No 1 Linux Audio Editor)
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As of 20 October 2009, it was the 6th most popular download from SourceForge.net, with 63 million downloads. Audacity won the SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Award for Best Project for Multimedia.

Sweep (No 2 Linux Audio Editor)
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ReZound (No 3 Linux Audio Editor)

ReZound is an digital audio editor primarily for, but not limited to, the Linux operating system. Licensed under the GPL. ReZound is free software. Presently, ReZound’s focus is on editing audio files for permanent change as opposed to arranging and/or filtering existing audio files to produce a composite work. It can optionally load a variety of audio file formats being dependent upon several audio file libraries. ReZound implements a standard set of editing tools and digital filters (some these tools with useful twists on the usual theme). Additionally, it supports loading LADSPA plugins. The last ReZound version, 0.12.3beta, was released on January 13, 2007. The project seems to be stalled as of 2008-01-26.

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Today I tried to update a Smart Array 6400 controller with a new firmware version, but it was not easy, since HP releases proprietary crap software, which is linked against an ancient version of the libstdc++ library, namely libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3.

This was, what I got using ldd

hopper:~# ldd cpqsetup
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7f4d000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7f2c000)
	libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => not found
	libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7ec6000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7d73000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f4e000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7d66000)

This solution is a follows:

Not pretty, but it works quite well with the HP Firmware CD Supplemental Update / Online ROM Flash Component for Linux – Smart Array 6400

wget http://mediakey.dk/~cc/files/compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386.rpm
aptitude install rpm
rpm2cpio compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386.rpm | cpio -idmv
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/usr/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
ldconfig

Then ldd should show this:

hopper:~# ldd cpqsetup
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7f4d000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7f2c000)
	libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /root/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (0xf7eea000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7ec6000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7d73000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f4e000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7d66000)

And then I was able to use the HP firmware update utility for Linux:

hopper:~# ./cpqsetup
Firmware CD Supplemental Update / Online ROM Flash Component for Linux - Smart Array 6400
* Version of rom to be flashed: 2.84
* Number of controllers: 1
* The version of existing Array ROM is 2.80
* 1 controller(s) will be flashed
* This operation may take about 2 minutes
Flash ROMs Now? (Yes/No): Yes
Flashing 1 controller(s), please wait....
Success:  Product 409c0e11 at controller position 0
with old version 2.80 has been updated with new version 2.84.
ROM Flash complete.  New firmware will take effect when the server is rebooted.
As part of the reboot process, you should power cycle the server and any
external drive arrays.

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