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Tips & tutorials....Windows, Linux, Security.

 
 Welcome to pctechtips, Jorge L. Vazquez's information technology website. Pctechtips offers tips and tutorials, news, and articles for computer enthusiast and professionals. The articles and tutorials will cover a wide variety of technical topics including, networking, security, windows, linux, computer repair, cisco router and switch, batch scripting, and programming.

Hacker challenge: pwn3d the login form.                        August 15, 2008

I came up with this pwn3d zit3 login form challenge, to kind of expose one of the many web application vulnerabilities; it consists of a login form which atuthenticates against a mysql backend database to give authorized access to the members only part of the web site. The goal is to login with full administrator rights and get the users list data stored in the mysql database....

 

Pentesting MS SQL Server with SQLat, and Cain.            July 29, 2008

Ok, by now you probably now how much I enjoy hacking, ehm, ehm...sorry!, pentesting. Well for this tutorial I will be pentesting MS SQL Server with SQLat, Freetds, and Cain. Database store and provide access to information and information is power. Sensitive data such as bank account numbers, credit reports, and lots of other important information can be obtained from an insecure database..

 

Pentesting Web Servers with Telnet, HTTPrint, Nikto, and Nessus.     July 16, 2008

for this tutorial I use some of the tools used most often for pentesting web server and web application; open source tools like Telnet, HTTPrint, Nikto, and Nessus, I will be using this tools to perform: Information Gathering, Scanning, Command Execution Attacks.

 

Digital Forensic II: Data Carving with Foremost.            July 3, 2008

This tutorial is the second part of the Digital Forensic series. Digital Forensics is a relative new discipline that has captivated my attention. For this demo I plan to do some data carving with backtrack 3 distribution and foremost targeting specific files like images, word docs and pdfs...

 

Backtrack 3: Digital forensic I: Vinetto and Pasco.            July 1, 2008

For this tutorial I decided to take the digital forensic tools in backtrack for a test drive, I will be retrieving and analyzing data from a specific user’s hard-drive and searching through the media for artifacts such as browser history, images, email.

 

"Change of website name to Pctechtips.org"        June 18, 2008

I decided to change the website's DNS name from Pcteckonline.org to Pctechtips.org, since it was available, it is shorter and easier to remember...update your browsers links and favorites as the redirection from the old name will expire soon, hope you keep enjoying the tutorials, and thanks for all the emails.. the good and the bad ones :0)

 

Backtrack: cracking WEP key with aircrack-ng           June 14, 2008

In this tutorial I go over the process of cracking wep encryption for wireless network. Here I demonstrate why configuring your network with wep encryption is not such a good idea, as anyone with the right tools can crack it in a manner of minutes

 

Secure browsing with SSH tunnel                    June 9, 2008

In this new tutorial I will show how to setup an SSH tunnel to browse the internet over an encrypted connection, which makes your internet session secure, this is very useful if you happen to be at an unsecured network like open wireless hotspot like a coffee shop, a convention, etc..

 

Netcat (The Swiss Army Knife): useful commands               June 7, 2008

In this tutorual will go over the most useful netcat commands. Netcat is a tool that every IT professional should have in their tool box, if you're responsible for network or systems security, it is essential that you understand the capabilities of netcat. The original version of netcat is a UNIX program. Its author is known as Hobbit. He released version 1.1 in March of 1996. Netcat is available for Unix and Windows OS.

 

Partimage: Creating and restoring windows image.              May 30, 2008

Have you ever experience a file system error, virus, disk failure, data corruption?, if you've experience some of this problem you know it's hard to recover from some of this problems, well with partimage you just have to restore the partition and in about 10 minutes you should be back with the original partition, also you could write the image to a CD, DVD, or even across the network if you want to save disk space. In this tutorial I will go over the process of saving/restoring an image of your windows (ntfs) partition.

 

IPCop firewall II: IDS(Snort) and Iptraf addon.                May 12, 2008

In this second part of IPCop firewall tutorial, we'll go over IDS(snort) and Iptraf addon. I consider Ipcop a robust firewall, and one of its main feature is the ability to detect attacks as they happen on the network (Snort), also another good feature of IPCop is the addons, through addons you can easy install lots of application, that do not come included in the IPCop installation, like Iptraf, Dansguardian, Openvpn, Asterisk among others.

 

IPCop firewall I: installation.        April 27, 2008

If you want to protect your network from the internet, one of the things you need is a firewall, in this tutorial I will show you how to install ipcop firewall, for this all you need is an old pc and the free ipcop installation software. IPCop doesn't require a lot of hardware to run, it will run on 64M of memory although I recommend at least 128M, it all depends on how many services you're planning to run, also it doesn't require a lot of hard drive, unless you're planning to do a lot of logging, and web cache, and finally processor speed it's not really that important…. Click here to continue.

 

Wireshark III: Analyzing Basics Protocols        april 6, 2008

This tutorial contains some very important information about protocols, and could help understand each protocol and give you a baseline for analyzing protocols that you suspect are not working properly. I'll go over each protocol and discuss how each one functions, including: ARP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP, TCP, IP, HTTP.

 

 

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