I downloaded My Backup Pro to use as a secondary backup on my Google Nexus 7 device which is running Android 4.2. When attempting to configure the the email address and password associated to the My Backup Pro account it continued to reject the information I was providing. Initially I thought the password must be too long, which it was, but even after shortening it to the allowed fifteen characters it continued to reject my settings. It ended up being the email address I used not being accepted because it included a “-”. Below I describe a bit more and provide a screenshot of the screen in question.

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When using the cisco-auditing-tool script located in the Backtrack Linux menu ( Backtrack > Vulnerability Assessment > Network Assessment > Cisco Tools ) I was getting an error even though I was sure one of the passwords I had in the wordlist was accurate. After some troubleshooting I was able to figure out that the script checked for a non-privileged account on the Cisco device but if the account was actually a privileged account which is also known as an enable account it would crash because it never received the response it expected. I added a couple lines of code and now the cisco-auditing-tool Perl script will provide confirmation of lower level accounts on a Cisco device as well as enable level accounts on a Cisco device. Below I describe the error message output when the cisco-auditing-tool Perl script was crashing followed by the code update to provide Cisco enable level password auditing.

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SQLDict servers one purpose which is to brute force Microsoft SQL Server passwords. The easiest way to launch SQLDict is using the Backtrack navigation menu which launches the SQLDict.exe application using wine. The interface is easy to use as shown in the below example images.

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When attempting to sync a repo to a server or to your desktop you will receive an error if the certificate being used to protect the HTTPS repository URL is not issued by the proper authority. Many companies generate their own certificates for repository URL’s especially if the repository is primary used internally. In this example I was attempting to sync a repository using SVN to a folder on the desktop of my Macbook Pro running OSX Mountain Lion. Below I describe the error in more detail followed by resolution to the svn certificate error.

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The purpose of this article is to list the variables that are available to set when installing mysql-server on Ubuntu Linux. You can use the debconf-get-selections command to list debconf variables for any installed package on Ubuntu but the debconf variables are most useful before a package is installed so I constantly find myself having to login to another Ubuntu server where the package is already installed to get these variables. Now I can just look on QD.

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