Computer_Security

This post is going to be about exposing anyone to XBMC that has never heard of it before and it will be a little bit of a tutorial now and then! So recently I have been playing around with a new piece of software by the name of XBMC this little program is a pain in the ass to get configured to your liking ( A LOT OF YOUTUBE TUTORIALS ) But I will try to help and ease the pain by giving you guys pointers. Once that is all said and done you get what every American wants.... -Free music -Free movies -Free TV shows and YES FREE CABLE!!! Here is a small history lesson: Xbmc stands for Xbox media center. This was the old media center for xbox which got dumped and I am guessing new people took over or something and now it is a GIANT source for great entertainment! The cool things about XBMC.... 1) FREE 2) You can install it on WIndows, Linux, OSX, ARM, Rasberry Pi, IOS, apple tv, and XBMCbutu 3) You get TV shows, Movies, and Music the day they come out or sometimes the next day! 4) NEWS 12 ( this is exciting if you live in NY like me and don't have optimum ) I have personally put XBMC on my Apple TV and it works fine but I would recommend putting it onto a laptop or a desktop or EVEN BETTER a RASPBERRY PI which I have not yet gotten around to do, but I will in the future! Also you don't have to download the movies to watch them which we all know will eat up your hard drive quicker then you could imagine instead you stream them in HD to your laptop which In my opinion makes the program! But you do have the option to download the movies and TV shows if you want! I have not yet found a way to watch live TV but others have so just watch a few youtube video and you should be all set! So how do you get it? Simply go to http://xbmc.org/ and just click what type of OS you are running and your done! How do I get all of my music, movies and tv shows? well for me this was A LOT of youtube and I would recommend the same thing for you too! I will recommend what you should look into but I can't give a tutorial on every little thing! The video add ons that I like are... - 1Channel ( very popular ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz8L-if0EXc - DOCU-HUB ( documentary dtabase ) - FREE CABLE ( not actually free cable but it is more just a big database of tv shows ) - HULU ( you get everything that HULU has ) - ICEFILMS ( popular one ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz8L-if0EXc - MASH UP ( popular one ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_K6LSORniM - Z-MOVIES ( a lot of movies in this database ) For Sports I would highly recommend you look at Sports Devil For Music I don't listen to a lot of music but I've found that ( XUNITYTALK MUSIC ) is pretty good! For Skin I have the AEON MQ 5 EXTRAPACK as my skin and I couldn't be more happy. I would recommend that you set up XBMC to your liking first and then worry about the skin because a lot of people use the default skin on youtube and it gets confusing if you don't have the same one! For programs NAVI-X (VERY POPULAR) highly recommended!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MitgeVLmtY XBMC basically runs around Fusion and XFINITY here is a quick tutorial that I found that will help you get them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQy2Zu4kqZA As I said before it takes some time to get use to it but it will be completely worth it in the end! Once you are all done you could run either a VGA cord and a 3.5mm cord to your TV which will project it on to the TV or you could run a HDMI which is simpler but not all laptops have one! I am writing this post because I wish that someone exposed me to XBMC earlier and taught me how to use it and what to do! If you have any question please feel free to ask me!

Thanks for the advice COOPER barry99705 and I was trying to see if there was any ROUTER that was known to have good/great security. Thanks for the feedback!!

Thanks I will be sure to check out your suggestions and there are a few that I haven't heard about so I'm excited! ( midnightsnake, spazi )

Thanks guys for the suggestions I am trying them out right now and I will keep you updated on how it goes! ( spazi, i8igmac )

This is a tough question because router companies are not consistent in security between different models. To tell you the truth I have no idea which one is better. My guess would be NETGEAR only because when I was performing a pen-test I was impressed that it was fairly hard to crack with a WPA2-Psk, but WPS was enabled so when I tried reaver I had a lot of errors and it kept timing me out after trying a few pins and I think it even stopped sending out beacons and I think I saw it change channels! IDK that is my own personal opinion based on very little experience and I know that a lot of routers have the same security precautions so I would love to have some feedback on what the community thinks! -Thanks

You seem to have NO clue what you are talking about (Prob a script kiddie) so I would recommend for you to do your research, watch a lot of Hak5 http://www.hak5.org/ learn the ins and outs of backtrack5 and or Kali and then you should maybe think about investing in a nice piece of hardware like the Mark V! If you really want to look farther into the Mark V read this https://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/wifi-pineapple Just know that depending on what type of encryption the network is using depends A LOT on if and how hard it is to break it.

So I wanted to compose a list of all of the great hacking hardware that is out there! - Usb Rubber Ducky - Wifi pineapple mark V ( all the Hak5 stuff ) - Reaver pro - ProxMark - Pwnphone - Pwnpad - Ubertooth Feel free to add to my list with anything I didn't think of or haven't heard about!

So I have been having this problem for like a week now and I can't figure out why. The problem is that when ever I try to start up a session of Metasploit or Armitage it gives me a error message saying that it couldn't connect to the database! Armitage's Error Message Could not connect to database. Click Help button for troubleshooting help. Connection refused Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections. Metasploit Error Message Failed to connect to database: Could not connect to server: Connection Refused If anyone could give me some suggestions on how to fix it I would be very grateful! If any more information is needed please tell me!

Very interesting thanks for the post!

Hack that bitch back! and the antivirus software that I would recommend is AVIRA it was rated the best antivirus software by consumer reports. Here is Consumer Reports http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2012/03/avira-free-anti-virus-recommended-by-consumer-reports/index.htm And here is an article about it http://www.networkworld.com/article/2188900/network-security/consumer-reports--free-anti-malware-software-for-windows--mac-is-effective.html But really the best way to 100% know that your computer is virus and spyware free is to do a wipe and reload like COOPER said! Hope this helped

I agree 100% with Spazi that the AWUS036H has more range then the AWUS036NHA. But I personally prefer the AWUS036NHA because it does support the N routers and even though the range is not as good you can always buy an antenna for it to dramatically increase the range. A few that I have seen are the Yagi antenna which you can buy from the hak shop for about 100$ i think Then you could go for the big boy and buy this very directional antenna for about 50 bucks but it could go for about a mile without any trees or buildings in the way http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004K2I70E/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1QMYGGY8AGFAK&coliid=I3V16V2LQR7IBV My point is that when you are looking for the best antenna you shouldn't look at the range because that's an easy fix But more at if it performs the way you want and for me i like the way that the AWUS036NHA performs because of how I can connect to N routers and does everything that I want! So I guess there is no definite BEST because everyone has a different opinion. Working Backtrack Wireless Cards AWUS036H (rtl8187, r8187) AWUS036NH (Ralink RT2870/3070) BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) Rockland N3 - (Ralink RT2870/3070) Edimax EW-7318USG USB - (Ralink RT2501/RT2573) ASUSTek Computer, Inc. RT2573 Linksys WUSB54GC ver 3 Ubiquiti SRC Internal Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Dlink WNA-2330 PCMCIA Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Netgear wg111v2 ZyXEL AG-225H v2 Intel 4956/5xxx Not Working Backtrack Wireless Cards D-Link DWL-122 Linksys WUSB600N v2 AWUS051NH

A cool little tool that I have been playing around with is the iphoneanalyzer in BT5 Backtrack>Forensics>Digital Forensics>iphoneanalyzer This tool is only going to be useful if you have physical access to the phone... what makes this tool so powerful is that it does not only work for iphones it works on ipads and ipods ect... as well! This program gives you access to their Address Book Location Map Voicemail Facebook Friends Maps History Messages (Sent...Received...All) Calls (Incoming...Outgoing...All) And I believe it gives you all of their pictures I'm not sure though! The only requirements to this is that you have to make a backup of their device on your computer and backups don't require a Apple ID and password so if you could get someones phone for 15 min your all good!' Okay so once you have the backup you will need to access the file and you can do this by going to ( On Windows ) start button then click on the user ( the name in the top right... if you can't do that you can always go to your c:\ drive and then users and then click on the user that you are on) now if you do not see AppData then you are going to have to un-hide all of the folders ( google it, its simple ) click on AppData then click on Roaming then apple computer then mobile sync then backup now you should see all of your backups to figure out which one is which open up itunes click the button in the top left hand corner and then click preferences then go to devices and now you can see the order that the saves are in! ( you may have a different version of Itunes then me so you can either figure it out or look at the dates of the backups in the backup file ) Once you find the save that you want now we have to make it into a zip file ( right click on the backup that you want goto send to and then compressed zip folder ) and move it to your desktop now right click and goto share with then click specific people and then ALL now goto your backtrack machine and go into the dolphin file manager click on network ( located in the side bar on the left ) then click on the icon that says network and then find your file ( I think it is the network icon or it might be the Samba Shares idk) find your file and drag it to your BT5 desktop now you have to unzip it by going into a terminal and typing unzip ( then what ever the file is called it should be a ton of letters and numbers make sure you have a .zip at the end!!!! ) now go into iphone analyzer and browse to the file now click on the file and hit analyze iphone!!!!!!!!!! This is a great way to get all of the information that you are looking for but the downside is that you need physical access! I have not yet checked out the smartphone-pentest-framework but I will and I have never heard of it before so I am excited! Your welcome for the very noob friendly tutorial! and contact me with any problems or if I missed a step :) I forgot to add that you have to download the guest addon for virtualbox for this to work! Idk what to do for vm ware so I cant help you with that!

I have a suggestion.... While I was researching how to break a WPA key I have found a few ways.... The first way is you can try to brute force it but as we all know that wont work unless you have a few hundred years to blow The second way would be with Craig Heffner's Reaver which is very useful if your router has WPS enabled and it is built right into BackTrack 5 and also you can use WASH in BT5 to check if any access points around you have WPS enabled this was also created by Craig Heffner I believe the command is wash -i (put your interface here ex. mon0) -C The third way is using a Evil Twin Attack on the router https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwEjYL6Eoro I personally like Cris Haralson's tutorial on youtube The last way is a way to bruteforce the pass key but is a lot simpler and a ... little bit ... more practical then the normal way http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35278/bruteforce-on-10-characters-length-wpa2-password The part of the post that I found to be very interesting is here... I'm currently developing similar technologies. Aircrack-ng really is brilliant although it does have some limitations. I have also attempted a brute force on my own wifi using crunch to generate passwords. and my findings are as such: You can pipe crunch directly into Aircrack-ng to eliminate the need to create a .txt file and use it simultaneously saving you processing power to perform calculations, the Syntax for this method in bash is as such:here you can see the standard format for piping into aircrack-ng and some simple options. ./crunch <max> <min>(stick to 8 for now)<options>(abcd1234..) can give partial passwo@@@| aircrack-ng -b [bssid] -w - [.cap file] Here is a working copy you can paste into terminal (below), I'll talk you through it a little. From left to right: The name of the command crunch, if this doesn't work straight away force execution by starting with ./crunch. 8 8 is the max and min chars you're going to need as I'm sure you already know. Then a pipe symbol. This feeds the output directly into the file that aircrack-ng is going to use as a dictionary Fill in Bssid's as you already know how to do in this format once your handshake has been established. WORKING COPY: crunch 8 8 1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ -t 97KQA@@@ | aircrack-ng -b 78:54:2E:28:E7:86 -w - thehak-01.cap THE PROBLEM WITH THIS METHOD: Using a permutation equation and using an expected 1000 combinations per second (this is what my actual output is) I have calculated that testing each of the generated combinations will take 77.8 years I hope this helped you! ...Sorry if any of these methods were already mentioned I didn't get a chance to read all of them