Category Archives: linux

Microsoft & UEFI Secure Boot

A technical solution has finally been proposed to avoid locking out Linux and other OS vendors from UEFI shipped motherboards.  A couple of months ago Microsoft made waves by announcing their Windows 8 support for UEFI.  Open source supports took … Continue reading

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Reduce ssh brute force attempts…

In case you’re still running sshd on port 22 (which you should change!) you’re probably getting hammered with brute force attempts.  Take a peak at /var/log/secure or /var/log/wtmp or the “last” command and have a looksy. There’s a great little application … Continue reading

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Cracking Windows SAM file

A friend of mine showed me a great online video shows cracking the Window’s SAM file using the BackTrack live CD. The Windows SAM file which is a database stored as a registry file stores users’ passwords in a hashed … Continue reading

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