Foursquare is pretty neat. You can post you location via phone or browser and get nifty badges for different things or become a mayor of a place if you check in to that location the most. Its also exceedingly easy to cheat at.

I only casually mentioned the idea of cheating to @Jack_Mannino and within a few minutes of emailing him the link to the API he was already traveling the globe at record speed.

Foursquare even has a nifty and pretty easy to understand API here:
http://groups.google.com/group/foursquare-api/web/api-documentation

The simplest thing you can do is checkin and post your location by vid or venue.

Since everyone else is releasing code to check for/exploit the vmware server/esx/esxi directory traversal vulnerability I pushed up my checker module to the metasploit trunk as an auxiliary scanner module.

If you want to just download a full guest host check out:
GuestStealer -- http://www.fyrmassociates.com/tools/gueststealer-v1.1.pl

or the

nmap script -- http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=436

Props on the blog spam for this one...

If I hadn't had coffee this morning that one might have snuck on through.

Shiny new hotness...

meterpreter > getuid
Server username: WINXPSP3\user **user is an admin, if not admin you can only use -t 4 or -t 0 which will iterate through all options**

meterpreter > use priv
Loading extension priv...success.
meterpreter > getsystem -h
Usage: getsystem [options]
Attempt to elevate your privilege to that of local system.

So I had a requirement to take some output from nmap scans, shove it into a database and then be able to run some queries on that data.

Wait, isn't there something that already does that?!

Actually PBNJ and nmap_xml2sql.pl will do this but uses (eeeek!) perl to do it. I wanted to do it in Ruby.

Your options for Ruby & Nmap parsing are:

-rubynmap http://rubynmap.sourceforge.net/
-ruby-nmap http://ruby-nmap.rubyforge.org/
-metasploit has its own nmap xml parser
-writing your own

I started with rubynmap for my parsing gem.

Just a list of online (mostly) md5 crackers but some with do others

This post over on pcsec got me thinking about them.

http://www.pcsec.org/archives/MD5Seacrh-v18-by-mass.html

Of course not all those are working, least not for me.

So here is that list with links and a few others thanks to my twitter homies

passcracking.ru http://passcracking.ru/
md5crack http://md5crack.com/
md5decryption: http://md5decryption.com/
TheKaine.de: http://md5.thekaine.de/

Since everyone else is doing it...

Top 10 posts of of the year 12/26/2008 - 12/26/2009 - blogspot

Adding your own exploits and modules in Metasploit
http://carnal0wnage.blogspot.com/2008/07/adding-your-own-exploits-in-metasploit.html

Gray Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Reverse Engineers Book Review
http://carnal0wnage.blogspot.com/2009/05/gray-hat-python-python-programming-for.html

Dumping Memory to Extract Password Hashes

On a recent pentest one of the findings that came up (actually it seems like this finding is on every pentest) is the web server allowing SSLv2.

In the course of doing the report I of course wanted to point to a good reason why this was the case. It was actually difficult to find a CVE/CVSS/etc to say why its bad, in fact I never did. Kind of the same with allowing VRFY on your SMTP server. We all know its bad, but where is the proof.

Nevertheless, here are some links that were useful in understanding the problem.

http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/whitepapers/wp_ssldigger.pdf

So just wanted to paste a few links to various views on the security community I have a come across lately.

The Extinction of Hackers by FX
http://www.phenoelit.net/extinction.html

The established community and its rules have the effect of distracting young hackers from their own, personal goals. You are not accepted as a hacker if you run Windows (there are very few exceptions). If you are not an established and respected person, you must run at least Linux, but never one of the large distributions like RedHat or Suse, even if your goal is hacking in the Microsoft .NET environment.


Hey I'm as vain as the next security dude in the community so let's see how I can stroke my own ego with metasploit!!

Metasploit has awesome banners. Once you load it up you'll get your random banner or you can just keep typing banner to randomly get one. If you don't like hdm's banner hotness, you can always roll your own. And thanks to msf in color its never been easier to sexy up your ascii art.

I wanted to see carnal0wnage when I started it up.

Step one. Find and open banner.rb in your favorite editor. banner.rb is located in %msfdir%/lib/msf/ui (do I need to tell you to make a backup of the orig?)

Step two. Go to ascii art generator of choice and pick a few pimp ass ascii logos for whatever you want (even though metasploit is pretty damn cool as it is)