Linux Shtuff

From linuxpoison.blogspot.com High Speed Network Authentication Cracking Tool – Ncrack Ncrack is a high-speed network authentication cracking tool. It was built to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords. Security professionals also rely on Ncrack when auditing their clients. Ncrack was designed using a modular…

From thegeekstuff.com When I drafted this article, I really came-up with 7 sysadmin habits. But, out of those 7 habits, three really stood out for me. While habits are good, sometimes rules might even be better, especially in the sysadmin world, when handling a production environment. Rule #1: Backup Everything ( and validate the backup…

From webupd8.org TestDrive is an Ubuntu application that is especially designed for non-technical users to easily download and run the latest Ubuntu development daily snapshot in a virtual machine. TestDrive also works for other Ubuntu flavours such as Kubuntu or Xubuntu. You don’t have to do anything, TestDrive will even handle the ISO download and…

From http://cloudstudy.hostpo.net/ Practically every cloud computing provider – from Google to Rackspace, Amazon to Salesforce.com – has suffered through an outage at some point. When outages happen, skeptics question the viability of cloud computing. Talk to anyone invested in the cloud, though, and it doesn’t take long to understand that outages are just one of…

From mynitor.com Every once in awhile I find myself looking around for an rpm command to provide info on a specific thing such as displaying installed location of all files of a package that’s already been installed. Sure there is the man page but finding something from a man page is like finding a hard…

From blogs.pcworld.co.nz Hidden Linux : agt-get secrets apt-get is the package handling utility behind Debian-based Linux systems such as Ubuntu, Mint and Mepis. You may be using it ‘by proxy’ via GUI-based package managers such as Synaptic, but hardened Linux users tend to prefer the command line – especially as the latter has a couple…

From linuxpoison.blogspot.com Inundator – IDS/IPS/WAF Evasion & Flooding Tool Inundator is a multi-threaded, queue-driven, IDS evasion tool. Its purpose is to anonymously flood intrusion detection systems (specifically Snort) with traffic designed to trigger false positives via a SOCKS proxy in order to obfuscate a real attack. The general idea is one would launch inundator prior…

From linuxpoison.blogspot.com It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in…

From canoo.com Ubuntu Kung-Fu – 10 Best Tricks (and some even work on Macs) By my count, Ubuntu Kung-Fu from Pragmatic Bookshelf is the perfect summer reading book. It’s light, the content is not going to strain your mind the way some computer science tomes will; it’s easy to read, as always with Prag books…

From mabishu.com One of the reasons cause I love the GNU/Linux for developing is its easy and quick setup. So if you’re a LAMP-dev you can setup a LAMP server with less than 100 chars. With the next command you will have a apache2+php5+mysql on Debian based systems with the bonus of phpmyadmin for administer…