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Technology Insights

Mac OSX – Make Specific App Default File Opener

InsightsBy alexJanuary 14, 2013Leave a comment

I have been meaning for a long time to set some configuration parameters for specific file types including which applications open them by default. I deal with a lot of different file types and I am typically having to scroll through a long list of Mac applications to select the one that I want to…

Technology Insights

Terminal Initialization Failure Using OSX Terminal Window

InsightsBy alexJanuary 13, 2013Leave a comment

Earlier while trying to SSH to a device from a Terminal windows on my Macbook Pro running OSX version 10.8, also known as Mountain Lion, I received an error when attempting to connect to a 64 Bit Windows 7 Professional server. The error in the Mac Terminal window stated that the terminal failed to initialize.…

Technology Insights

Bluetooth CoD: Bluetooth Class of Device/Class of Service Explained

InsightsBy alexJanuary 12, 20135 Comments

While testing some tools in Backtrack Linux I was working with some Bluetooth tools including btscanner, BlueProPro, bluediving, etc. and wanted to know more about the Bluetooth Class of Device/Class of Service also know as just Bluetooth CoD. Not only how it was formatted but also what exactly it meant and what it could tell…

Code Snippets

OCS Version 0.2 Release – Cisco Router Default Password Scanner

Code SnippetsBy alexJanuary 11, 2013Leave a comment

Recently I wrote an article on cisco-ocs from Backtrack Linux and provided examples of what it did as well as a bug where if a higher privilege was provided to the vty ports it would note the router was not vulnerable. In that scenario the router was even more vulnerable because the initial login provides…

Technology Insights

RackSpace Cloud DNS Round Robin DNS A Records

InsightsBy alexJanuary 9, 2013Leave a comment

I typically use Amazon’s AWS EC2 cloud services which include Route53 for DNS however I have certain clients that prefer RackSpace and therefore require RackSpace Cloud DNS services. One of the primary reasons for not just using an external DNS service such as Amazon’s Route53 DNS service is because when you setup large cloud deployments…

Code Snippets

Add New Item To Backtrack Linux Backtrack Menu

Code SnippetsBy alexJanuary 8, 2013Leave a comment

I recently wrote an article about how to fix btscanner in Backtrack Linux and realized after the article was completed that some people may prefer to launch btscanner via the menu in Backtrack Linux instead of the command terminal by typing btscanner. This article specifically explains how to add btscanner back to the menu in…

Information Security

btscanner Brute Force Bluetooth Crashes On Backtrack 5 R3

SecurityBy alexJanuary 8, 20133 Comments

I have been playing around with some of the bluetooth tools within Backtrack recently and btscanner is one of the main tools I have bene using. The btscanner application in Backtrack Linux provides two bluetooth scanning functions it calls inquiry scanning and brute force scanning. Unfortunately the package installed with Backtrack 5 release 3 will…

Technology Errors

BtScanner Compile Error: cc1: error: unrecognized command line option -Wimplicit-function-dec

ErrorsBy alexJanuary 8, 2013Leave a comment

While doing some testing this evening I ran into all sorts of errors when attempting to compile a new version of btscanner on Backtrack Linux 5 R3. Luckily it is super easy to resolve the error complaining about an unrecognized command named -Wimplicit-function-dec. This error will display when attempting to run “make” against an already configured…

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Ubuntu 10.04 Installed Package From Source And APT Complaining Of Unmet Dependencies

InsightsBy alexJanuary 8, 2013Leave a comment

While doing some testing this evening on Backtrack Linux 5 R3 I had issues with apt or aptitude complaining about some dependencies for packages I had compiled from source. One of the packages I first ran into issues with was bluez which is installed by default on Backtrack. I wanted to apply a patch to…

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