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How to install Metasploit on Ubuntu 11.04
In this how to I will be showing you how to install Metasploit under Ubuntu 11.04. So what exactly is Metasploit?
A collaboration between the open source community and Rapid7, Metasploit software helps security and IT professionals identify security issues, verify vulnerability mitigations, and manage expert-driven security assessments, providing true security risk intelligence. Capabilities include smart exploitation, password auditing, web application scanning, and social engineering. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports.
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Tags: Metasploit.
How to create a LAN dedicated Quake III Arena server.
For this how to I will be setting up a dedicated Quake 3 Arena server on a Windows 2003 server. I know this game is old but CTFInstagib Rails is a lot of fun especially when you get a big group of friends together and have it out.
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Tags: Dedicated server, pc games, Quake 3, Quake Arena, server, Windows.
How to install any version of Windows 7.
How would you like to install any version of Windows 7 from one CD? Well its possible and it is really easy to do. You just need a couple of things to get started.
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Tags: product key, Windows, windows 7.
How to create a LAN Team Fortress 2 server.
In this how to I will be setting up a orange box Team Fortress 2 LAN server. Included with this tutorial I will show you how to setup your server with playable bots that will allow you to gain achievements. The process is really easy so lets get started.
Here are my server specs:
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Tags: halflife, pc games, Source, Team Fortress, TF2.
How to use hping3 by example.
In this how to I will be showing you some useful quick ways of using hping3. So you might be asking yourself what exactly is hping3?
hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer. The interface is inspired to the ping(8) unix command, but hping isn’t only able to send ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many other features.
As you can see from the description from the author hping3 is a glorified ping tool, but way more useful. So how do we use hping3?
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Tags: hack, hping, hping3, Linux, Networking, Security.
How to turn off the option to show file extensions in windows 7.
What is a file extension? A file extension is text after the “.” that indicates to the OS what type of file it is.
Example: mytext.txt, default.html
As you can see in the two above examples (.txt) and (.html) are the file extensions. To have windows show commonly used file extensions we must do the following.
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How to show hidden files in your windows system.
By default windows will hide certain files and folders this helps prevent accidental deletion and or modification to system critical files. To be able to view hidden files in windows 7 you must enable the option. Here are two ways to enable the viewing of hidden files.
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How to start your windows machine in Safe Mode.
Safe mode is a great way to troubleshoot problems with programs, or drivers that might prevent windows from starting. Safe mode loads with minimal drivers and programs which helps when you are infected with a virus, or having driver issues.
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How to find hosts using Nmap.
When scanning large networks it is very helpful to reduce the amount of time and effort it will take scanning for open ports. What we do is use Nmap to find the hosts that are up and what ip they are at. We then use only that set of ip’s to scan for open or interesting ports. Not only will this save you time but it will make it less noticeable instead of scanning every host for open ports.
To start lets open up a terminal and start Nmap.
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How to tell if a package is installed on Ubuntu Linux.
Use the aptitude command, which is a package manager for Ubuntu. Suppose you want to find out if the package Nmap is installed and what version is in the repositories, type the following command:
$ aptitude show nmap
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