While working on the computer shop network I had to modify the configuration on our switch which is a Cisco Catalyst 2950. After making a bunch of changes I was testing things to make sure all was working as expected however after taking a break and logging back into the 2950 it appeared that all…
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A couple days ago I was working on the network at the computer shop and ran into an issue configuring the Cisco Catalyst 2950 switch we have on part of the network. The goal was to set up three VLAN’s to segregate traffic on three segments of the network that each have their own purpose.…
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Alex and I were redoing our shop network today and we had to do some configuring on our Cisco switch. Normally this is no big deal but because I switched to mac recently I realized that I had no clue how to console into a Ciso switch. After a little googling I found a free…
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I was creating some demo videos for a class I am giving in a few weeks and I decided to post a few that I will not be using. This is the first in a series of Metasploit Attacks I will be showing. As always, these things are for instructional use only. Special thanks to…
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I recently presented at Hack3rcon in West Virginia on the subject of using Oclhashcat and a fingerprint attack to crack password hash’s.The original article by Atom can be found here. This is the video I made for a back up of my talk in case the live demo failed.
I had a Acer aspire one in the shop today and it had a variety of critical Windows issues. While doing some tests one of the things I did was rebuild the windows boot loader using the /FIXBOOT & /FIXMBR commands from a recovery disk. What I did not realize is it seems Acer has a custom boot…
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The question has come up numerous time on how to get a refund on an iPhone app or iPod Touch app purchased from the iTunes store so I decided to write a quick howto. After completing the below process Apple should respond within a couple days and refund your money with a week or so…
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While working on a customers computer this past Sunday afternoon I ran into an issue with Windows Live Essentials while attempting to update all of his programs. The error relates to updating Windows Live Essentials only and can be resolved by either skipping the specified update or really by uninstalling Windows Live Essentials and then…
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Recently we removed a virus from a PC at the computer shop and after a week the customer brought it back in because Auto Play had stopped working. Since a virus had been removed and Microsoft Security Essentials installed I assumed something in the process of one of those tasks messed up auto play. Fixing…
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