In metasploit there’s a plugin admin/backupexec/dump. This plugin uses the default credentials to login to Veritas backupexec agent and download an arbitrary file. The catch is it downloads it in the MTF (Microsoft Tape Format) file. You need a utility called NTBackup to restore this file. Metasploit authors have conveniently made this available for us at http://metasploit.com/tools/msbksrc.tar.gz.
However, if you compile this file you get an error:
msqic.c:814: error: conflicting types for ‘bques’
This happens because the function prototype is missing.
Goto line 169 of msqic.c file in the source code and add the following line:
int bques(char);
Once you add this, you should be able to make the client and should be able to extract the file from the .mtf file.

I have been a subscriber to this magazine’s electronic edition since the past year. However, they’ve only sent me one copy of the magazine till date. The cost of the yearly subscription was $79 or something which makes it an extremely expensive magazine…1 issue for $79…that’s ridiculous!
All my efforts to contact monika.drygulska@hakin9.org or marta.ogonek@hakin9.org have been futile! I would like to discourage anyone who pays for this.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of sloppy service with Hakin9?
Update 06/23/2009:
Hakin9 finally contacted me, after I emailed them (again) based on Chris John Riley’s suggestion. They provided me with the missing issues. Better late than never Hakin9! Thanks!

9 hrs down the line I’m still capturing packets, now comes the challenging part-to make the hash tables of raw data! My Rabin’s hash algo seems to be working but the only hiccup that could happen was when the negative hash values are obtained. I don’t know whether it is a bug in my code or what but I got negative values for Rabin’s Hash when I gave the string “this is test”! This is gonna test me for sure.

If you are installing Windows Driver Kit (WDK) from Microsoft and you choose to install the Device Simulation Framework (DSF) for USB and such devices, then you need to have the DCOM Server Process Launcher service running otherwise you get errors as cryptic as:
Unexpected Installation Error. Error in installing.
I wish there was more information that could be given in the error. Since I figured this out with only trial and error, I thought I’ll post the solution to this error.

An interesting incident happened this past week to a friend – he had his identity stolen. More specifically, someone got a hold of his social security number (SSN), his date of birth (apparently) and his address. What the scammers or their “mules” (a term used to describe criminals who act on behalf of the actual criminal at their behest) did was that they went to the bank and requested to wire a huge sum of money to an account. The neat trick they played was before actually going to the bank they called the Verizon helpdesk and suspended my friend’s phone service. When they reached the bank and showed the bank agent the ID (some sort of a non-standard / fake ID) and gave the SSN to the bank agent, he/she grew suspicious and tried to contact my friend. However, due to Verizon suspending his phone service, the bank agent couldn’t get a hold of my friend. Luckily, the bank agent also sent my friend an email to which he responded promptly. The culprits were arrested and the investigation is still on.
What was quite interesting was, the modus operandi where the criminals know that banks rely on calling the customers if they suspect fraud and they had this covered. Quite intelligent.
So, you know what you need to do if your phone suddenly stops working – check if ID thieves have had a run on you, change all your passwords including email, change your credit card accounts and bank accounts and PINs and place a hold on your credit history with the credit reporting agencies such as Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.

I recently started using Genymotion for emulating an Android image so I could test an app.  To install the app I simply dragged and dropped the apk file into the running Genymotion VM of the phone.  But for some reason the app just kept crashing with the error “unfortunately, your application has stopped”.

Running the following gave me a ton of output but this was what was the relevant bit:

$ adb -e logcat

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load library: load_library(linker.cpp:750): library “/system/lib/libhoudini.so” not found

What in the world is libhoudini??? Some googling brought me to this post.

According to this I needed an ARM translation library so the app still thinks it’s running on an ARM processor (which it isn’t because it’s running in x86 Virtualbox hypervisor).  Simply drag-n-drop the ARM translation.zip file into the Genymotion VM and boom, you should be good to go!

So I decided to use WPA2 Personal with AES+TKIP on my new Linksys WRT54GL router after my old D-Link router died. However, there were some issues in getting it to work on Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft with my Intel Wireless IPW3945abg.
So I decided to put my /etc/network/interfaces and the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf files up here for reference:
Suppose BLAH is my ESSID name. The psk value is an altered value for elucidation purposes only:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=2
fast_reauth=1

# WPA-PSK
network={
ssid="BLAH"
proto=WPA RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk=aaaa3fa7bbbbccccf6d44e199ecb2bebccccad25a0778beeee104db0b3fffff7
}

The value of the PSK command was obtained by using the value associated with the prefix “psk=…” after issuing the following command:

# wpa_passphrase BLAH passphrase
network={
       ssid="BLAH"
       #psk="passphrase"
       psk=aaaa3fa7bbbbccccf6d44e199ecb2bebccccad25a0778beeee104db0b3fffff7
}

The /etc/network/interfaces looked like this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wpa-conf managed
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid BLAH
wpa-ap-scan 2
wpa-proto RSN
wpa-pairwise TKIP
wpa-group TKIP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk aaaa3fa7bbbbccccf6d44e199ecb2bebccccad25a0778beeee104db0b3fffff7
pre-up wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -i eth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant

Once I was done with this configuration all I had to do was, issue the following command to get wireless working with WPA2 and TKIP:

# /etc/init.d/networking restart