May 23
Over the past week I have been finishing up development on my Diablo 3 WASD implementation for Mac OSX. It’s been an interesting project and has had many obstacles to overcome, primarily native global keyboard hooking in Java! Now that development of the first version is done I’m happy to release it to the public! Read more
Introduction
Hey there readers, so this is my first actual “Security” post in a while and I hope you guys enjoy it. Today I will be teaching you how to set up your own SSH tunnel. For those of you that don’t know what SSH is it’s a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. Basically a way for you to secure your own data! It’s something that you really should be using if you use public wireless at all. Setting up your own SSH server at home is pretty easy if you already have a server laying around. In this guide I’m going to be using my Ubuntu 12.04 server, but it should work equally well on any Linux distribution.
Introduction
I looked all over for documentation on how to install Ubuntu on the now fairly old Intel based Mac Mini, however all I saw were complex guides that involved multiple steps that were very confusing. So instead of doing all that I’m going to give you simple step by step instructions as an alternative that anyone can follow! Read more
Feb 22
Introduction
A general misconception is that the OSX operating system cannot be infected with malware or viruses, in fact this is not true. There have been various large outbreaks of malware on OSX the most recent being Mac-Defender. Mac-Defender was a virus that once installed would require you to pay to remove the “viruses” from your infected Mac. Just like virus progression on Microsoft Windows the viruses affecting OSX will become more and more powerful. By powerful I don’t necessarily mean damaging though, a viruses power might be in it’s subtlety, or in it’s ability to accurately log keystrokes. Right now there have only been a few cases and the majority of them were easy to contain, however I believe that once advance malware programmers turn there gaze to OSX the damage will be devastating. Read more
I’m going to be moving all of my FOSS coding over to Github to allow my projects to be continued/worked on by others. Github is a social coding website and for those of you that don’t know uses git to manage your files. Git is version control software that is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. I will be doing the majority of my coding from OSX, and so far have been having a great experience with Github and git on OSX! If any of you are interested in checking out my Github repositories or have a Github yourself please check me out at Github!
There are plenty of top 10 lists for Mac OSX however I am hoping that this will give you some good choices that you haven’t seen before. These are not only my top 10 applications for Mac OSX but also my most used and enjoyed, so I hope you find something new to enjoy! Read more
Python is a great language to pick up for coders with just very basic experience with other languages, think HTML,CSS, etc. Today I’m going to be going over how to write your own Python socket server and for those of you that don’t know sockets are the way that computers make connections over a network. Anyway on to the guide now.
So today I was building a new Arch Linux install for my desktop and I ran across an interesting problem.The HDMI ouput on my Radeon HD 4870 wasn’t working. So for about the past 2 hours I was digging around the Internet looking at what I would have to do to get this sucker working (if I even could). Finally came across the solution that should work for most Linux flavors and most of the ATI Radeon family.
Aug 7
The Basics
Netcat is an invaluable tool to many Networking Researchers and for any power-user or hacker it’s a great tool to have. Netcat is for lack of a better term a “Networking Swiss Army Knife” it allows for basic and in depth modification of TCP/UDP packets. It would be hard to sum up all of Netcats uses in 1 post but here are a few of it’s uses.
Port Scanner
Backdoor
FTP Server/Client
HTTP Server/Client
Networked Hard Drive Backups
Chat Client/Server
I’m just going to touch briefly on many of these uses, but I’ll go more in depth into some of the more security related uses such as backdooring and port scanning.
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