Archive for January, 2010
Execute programs at windows startup
My Last post was related to the ADS technology adopted by viruses and rootkits. These viruses can implement Alternate Data Streams and easily hide themselves behind legitimate files. I also did a small mention of how to get suspicious whenever you see some new entry in Registrys keys used to start program with operating system. [...]
Whats all fuss about PIFTS.exe?
March 9 was interesting and chaotic day for the people using Norton Antivirus as they started getting alerts about some binary named PIFTS.exe is trying to reach Internet. When analyzed, people found its traces in Norton Antivirus. This was weired. How does Norton alerting for its own applications? It looked suspicious and people started asking [...]
CISCO SKINNY Phones and Asterisk: Part I
Welcome to the my first multi-part tutorial on configuring Cisco Skinny Phones with Asterisk. This is two part tutorial and is divided as : Part 1: Configuring asterisk with Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP) module Part II: Configuring the Cisco Phone and registering it with earlier configured Asterisk Server. If you already have asterisk configured, [...]
Share Your Data Plan with Computer: iPhone Modem
Have you ever thought of using your AT & T data plan for your Laptop? Not unless you got some kind proxy application for iPhone. iPhoneModem is an application for the iPhone that aims at making it really easy to use the iPhone’s Internet connection on your computer. iPhone modem application creates a WiFi Network [...]
BackTrack3 Installer: Simplest way to install BT3 on HDD
Backtrack is the top rated security distribution available on earth for security community. Metasploit’s core developer and renown hacker HD Moore says: “BackTrack is the fastest way to go from boot to remote root.” Currently BT is in its third generation. As Backtrack has excellent support for Audio/Video and most of the desktop features, many [...]
Analyzing IRCBOTS: Part I
IRC based malware bots caught enormous attention in 2005-06. Though existence of IRC based Malwares are slowing down, Nailing them down is really interesting task. The sole purpose of Malware is to serve his master and follow his order. There are many ways adopted by Malware authors to achieve this, however controlling Malware from Intener [...]
Free iPhone Ringtones
As Apple has started charging $2 for a Ringtone, I started googling for sites giving free iPhone ringtones. However, after looking at the results i thought of doing bit work myself on creating ringtones for iPhone using regular MP3 files. This blog is dedicated for the people, who wants to play cool ringtones every now [...]
My Encounter with Live Web Attack
It will not be an average day, I knew from the dawn, as EOD I will be on my way to Pune. You might think whats so special about visiting pune? Let me tell you, people who have spent at least a year or two in city like Pune or Bangalore will hate to stay [...]
Deploying Apache-Tomcat Postgresql Web Applications on Ubuntu 9.04
This post includes HowTo:
1. Install Apache-Tomcat 6.x.x
2. Install Postgresql-8.7.3
3. Make them communicate with each other.
On ubuntu 9.04
OS X 10.4.6 under VMWare Workstation 6
My fascination about apple and their products(OS X / iPhone ) has started only few days back. So the first thing i wanted to do is install MAC OS X on my laptop. As my laptop is already installed with three operating systems; I decided to install OSX under VMWare. So this blog is all [...]
