Archive for September 2009

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Disabling the Forefront Icon for Citrix Users in Citrix Metaframe 4.5

September 29, 2009

Forefront was deployed to a Citrix server farm; much to the joy and delight of our Citrix Guru, Michael. He got rather concerned about the happy Forefront icon sitting in the system tray of Citrix desktops. If a user decided to kick off a Forefront scan, the Citrix server would ramp up its use of [...]

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Kicking off – OffSec 101 Day 1

September 20, 2009

The day has arrived. I have my email from the BackTrack team confirming access to the training material, videos and labs. Downloaded all the files, checked the videos ran and the PDFs had content, then connected to the labs. The VPM worked as advertised, so I could ping a system at the far end. Now, [...]

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SANS APAC Webcast – What Every Pen Tester Should Know About Web Applications

September 17, 2009

Dr. Johannes Ulrich, from SANS, is giving a talk on what every pen tester should know about web applications This is an interactive talk, so if web applications is your thing, or you’re a penetration tester then tune in and ask away. It’s at lunch time, 12pm on Wednesday the 30th of September, so stick [...]

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IAG’s SSL Wrapper fails for Java

September 16, 2009

After doing some normal patching updates on the IAG and client machines, I suddenly had the problem when trying to connect to a Java based application. The SSL wrapper screen appeared but after a minute an error would appear. The app wasn’t working. This isn’t good as The fix turnd out to be quick and [...]

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BackTrack 4 setup for A Windows Dummy

September 8, 2009

Installing BackTrack 4 on to an old laptop is easy. Boot from the CD, then run the install.sh script on the Backtrack desktop. Now as a Windows Admin, I have to updated everything. I have no choice, otherwise my MCSE status is revoked. Once you have logged in to the laptop, plugged it in to [...]