Apparently, there is some manual work that needs to be done before one can run Oracle DB modules in Metasploit under Kali Linux. This is because of proprietary libraries from our dear Oracle.
Here are the instructions that worked for me:
http://blog.infosecsee.com/2013/08/how-to-get-oracle-support-in-metasploit.html
So I followed the instructions here:
http://www.minipwner.com/
to create a minipwner box using a TP-Link mini router.
However, using an older openwrt image would break the ones with the 1.7 firmware.
Here is the fix:
Unbrick wr703n wifi router
http://forums.openpilot.org/blog/52/entry-92-unbrick-wr703n-wifi-router/
+1 to the parent. I used to work at SGI and, as you said, this is old news. One small note, unless rackspace is also doing something different, I believe you are talking about Rackable Systems intead of Rackspace.
This might be the first time Intel is doing it with their HW though. If I recall correctly, SGI did it with their MIPS systems.
One advantage of changing your default SSID a vanilla install is that it makes it harder to crack.
The SSID is used as salt in the encryption mechanism.
Here is an article that describes it in more detail:
http://netsecurity.about.com/od/secureyourwifinetwork/a/WPA2-Crack.htm
Plus... having a goofy SSID is fun
Wrote my first snort rule! It detects if someone is trying to capture credentials via the auxiliary/server/capture/smb module.
More information about this type of attack is here:
http://www.packetstan.com/2011/03/nbns-spoofing-on-your-way-to-world.html;
Why don't you release a 'not for commercial use' copy w/o the spying. That will prevent it from being distributed on P2P sites. The added benefit is that people would learn to use and love your software. Eventually, they can be your marketing arm and help convince management to purchase the software for business use.
Also, as you might be aware, developing DRM is very costly. The cost of DRM is expected to reach $9bln this year: http://drm.info/node/93
we will become less dependent on fossil fuels and will become more dependent on fuels made from the sugars and chemicals found in plants.
Nothing too new there, i.e., the idea of biofuels eventually taking over from petroleum distillates. However, Saddler contends further that:
Similar to an oil refinery that processes crude oil to make thousands of supplementary products like plastics, dyes, paints, etc., the biorefinery would use leftover agricultural and forest material to make many of the same products, but from a sustainable and renewable resource.
I remember my organic chem instructor back in '81 telling us that eventually the textbooks would have to be rewritten. There would be no presumption of fractional distillation of thousands of basic compounds from petroleum, and the teaching emphasis would shift to synthesis from simple hydrocarbons. He noted that we'd all miss 'the good, ole days' when synthetic fibers, plastics, etc. were cheap...or even an economically viable option. I can live without rayon, but, dang, I'm gonna miss polyvinyl chloride!
Here is a beautiful tutorial on hacking Windows networks:
http://www.packetstan.com/2011/03/nbns-spoofing-on-your-way-to-world.html
Here is a fix for the pcaprub issue:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/backtrack-5-beginners-section/40688-pcaprub-module-problem.html
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
