Category Archives: Security
Nmap5 cheatsheet
A. Ramos from the Spanish security blog www.securitybydefault.com posted a nice Nmap5 cheatsheet on the SecurityFocus pen-test mailing list. Webbased version of his email can be found here. Or go straight to his blog article. You can download the PDF … Continue reading
Call for Papers BruCON.v2 2010: Hacking for B33r
Another year a second interation of the BruCon event. A call for papers has been issued as can be read below. Check out the slides and video for the 2009 event here for inspiration —- Brussels, Belgium — This is … Continue reading
Download BruCON security presentations and videos
The first edition of the Belgium Security conference BruCON has ended and we can conclude it was a big success, besides being very informative it was a total blast to meet all these security geeks Presentations and Video can be … Continue reading
Walloon Government prohibits use of Firefox in favor of IE, for security reasons
Datanews (Dutch) reports that the Walloon Government (Belgium government for French speaking citizens) prohibits use of Firefox in favor of IE for security reasons. In some cases this means using IE6. Reasoning behind this remarkable decision seems to be a … Continue reading
Skimming magnetic strip debit cards in the Netherlands
Last night I watched the Dutch crime show “Opsporing Verzocht” (rough translation: wanted). They showed how easy it watch to skim debit cards by placing a magnetic card copier to copy the card and a little camera to capture the … Continue reading
Script for scanning Windows Vista to determine which Service Packs have been installed
I needed a way to check which Security patches were installed on Windows Vista machines. Now on XP I used to use the command wmic qfe list , but the problem with this command is that it was never any … Continue reading
Bash script to find the occurrences of MS KB patch# in a file
The script below can be used to check if certain patches, listed in one column in a file “B” occur in file “A”. This script can be used to process the output of the script in the previous post: Script … Continue reading
Scanning for SSL-hosts and automatic downloading of SSL-certificates
Save the below script, for instance as get-cert-info.sh, make it executable and do: $ ./get-cert-info.sh ips-domains.txt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 … Continue reading
Create encrypted and password protected zip archives on Mac OS X
Today I wanted to sent a password encrypted file to a Windows user and obviously the first thing that comes to mind is a password protected zip file. So I set out to create such an archive only to discover … Continue reading
Use OpenLDAP with RSA SecurID 7.1 and Juniper SA SSL-VPN appliance
For a client I had to integrate a Juniper SA SSL-VPN appliance with RSA SecurID 7.1 server for strong authentication. This is pretty straightforward except for the fact that with only these two components you can’t really do any sensible … Continue reading