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Thoughts on photography, technology, music, and creative work.
The head graphic designer for House of Blues, Martin Gee is laying out the groundwork for a Street Fighter Mod based on a drum'n'bass community that i do the programming/design/hosting for.
he put me in there using a picture he took of me when my flash popped... the lens flare is not faked. check it out...
When I first moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1992 my dad worked for Los Alamos National Labratory in the ADP-4 dept coding old mainframes. He told me about, then took me to the most wonderful place I'd ever been...
I instantly fell in love as I am an avid junk collector. The black hole is an old supermarket, it's parking lot and the church next door along with it's parking lot (plus a house or tow a few miles away... which we once found a nice little disk (about 1 or 2 grams of weapons grade uranium! ) all filled up with piles of Lab suprlus.
See every first friday (or some day it's been a while) the Lab does somthing it calls salvage. Salvage is a silent auction where everybody gets a chance to inspect pallets of wonderful junk the lab no longer feels it needs. You can get anything from a pile of bolts to boxes of laser tubes. All for pennies on the thousands if not millions.
NetBIOS Auditing Tool Release
As of February 16th Secure Networks Inc. has released a free (GPL`d)
NetBIOS auditing tool for use both on WindowsNT and UNIX platforms.
The tool itself is designed to test NetBIOS file-sharing configurations as
well as Password integrity of remote stations.
The toolset is available via the following channels:
ftp://ftp.secnet.com/pub/tools/nat10/nat10bin.zip (For NT and Win 95 binaries)
ftp://ftp.secnet.com/pub/tools/nat10/nat10.tgz (For full source)
http://www.secnet.com/ntinfo/ntaudit.html A technical description of how the NetBIOS auditing tool works follows.
The NetBIOS Auditing Tool (NAT) is designed to explore the NETBIOS file-sharing
services offered by the target system. It implements a stepwise approach to
gather information and attempt to obtain file system-level access as though
it were a legitimate local client.
The major steps are as follows:
A UDP status query is sent to the target, which usually elicits a reply
containing the Netbios "computer name". This is needed to establish a session.
The reply also can contain other information such as the workgroup and account
names of the machine`s users. This part of the program needs root privilege to
listen for replies on UDP port 137, since the reply is usually sent back to UDP
port 137 even if the original query came from some different port.
TCP connections are made to the target`s Netbios port [139], and session
requests using the derived computer name are sent across. Various guesses at
the computer name are also used, in case the status query failed or returned
incomplete information. If all such attempts to establish a session fail,
the host is assumed invulnerable to NETBIOS attacks even if TCP port 139 was
reachable.
Provided a connection is established Netbios "protocol levels" are now
negotiated across the new connection. This establishes various modes and
capabilities the client and server can use with each other, such as password
encryption and if the server uses user-level or share-level Security. The
usable protocol level is deliberately limited to LANMAN version 2 in this
case, since that protocol is somewhat simpler and uses a smaller password
keyspace than NT.
If the server requires further session setup to establish credentials, various
defaults are attempted. Completely blank usernames and passwords are often
allowed to set up "guest" connections to a server; if this fails then guesses
are tried using fairly standard account names such as ADMINISTRATOR, and some
of the names returned from the status query. Extensive username/password
checking is NOT done at this point, since the aim is just to get the session
established, but it should be noted that if this phase is reached at all MANY
more guesses can be attempted and likely without the owner of the target
being immediately aware of it.
Once the session is fully set up, transactions are performed to collect more
information about the server including any file system "shares" it offers.
Attempts are then made to connect to all listed file system shares and some
potentially unlisted ones. If the server requires passwords for the shares,
defaults are attempted as described above for session setup. Any successful
connections are then explored for writeability and some well-known file-naming
problems [the ".." class of bugs].
If a NETBIOS session can be established at all via TCP port 139, the target is
declared "vulnerable" with the remaining question being to what extent.
Information is collected under the appropriate vulnerability at most of
these steps, since any point along the way be blocked by the Security
configurations of the target. Most Microsoft-OS based servers and Unix SAMBA
will yield computer names and share lists, but not allow actual file-sharing
connections without a valid username and/or password. A remote connection to
a share is therefore a possibly serious Security problem, and a connection
that allows WRITING to the share almost certainly so. Printer and other
"device" services offered by the server are currently ignored.
For more information about NAT see:
http://www.secnet.com/ntinfo/ntaudit.html - Oliver Friedrichs
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Secure Networks Incorporated. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, (403) 262-9211
Ok so i hacked up nat so that it would compile on jaguar (os x 10.2) and i have it available for download here
i want to add it to the fink tree but i'm not sure where to start... the online docs didn't help me during the 10 mintues i looked at them... for now you can grab it off my site here. but
check out one of the dopest UK garage groups the streets. i really like their music. you can get more info about the show on my 2step website. there is also an after party. hope to see you there!
I just found a great new browswer based on mozilla but much more streamlined for OS X.... i'm posting this with it right now and it is wonderful!
tonight at the knitting factory... mad mixer... looks pretty cool... it's for web designers to meet each other. i think i will go and check it... flyer inside:::
i am ready to release the next version of slacker. it's been a bit since the last release, but this one is really an improvment. it now fully works with no tweaking. i have also written shell scripts that deliver what the project had originally intended. full automation of adding users to apache, system, ftpchroot, dns, mail, and it even copies over the slacker skeletons...