Monthly Archives: October 2008

Using session-monitor to span ports as an aggregation tap

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Stephen Reese

Like most I don’t have the funds to purchase a $1000 port aggregation tap for my IDS to monitor traffic so instead I just used a 2950 Cisco Switch: ! interface FastEthernet0/1 switchport access vlan 100 duplex full ! interface … Continue reading →

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Using metasploit to pwn MS06-067

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Stephen Reese

In a graduate course I’m taking right now our professor wanted us to tool around with the Metasploit project. This tool makes exploiting vulnerabilities that it has signatures for a joke. After the client takes the bait I run ‘ipconfig’ … Continue reading →

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Erase slack space on Microsoft Vista

Posted on October 3, 2008 by Stephen Reese

A lot of information may be stored on a drives slack space. If you want to get rid of these artifacts then run the usual tools to clean up the system like ‘Disk Cleanup’, ‘Defrag’, etc.. and then run the … Continue reading →

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