This Episode of CrackerCast looks at this weeks hacker news and breaks down the second phase of the hacking process, scanning.

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Have you wondered how to get BackTrack 4 running in the easiest way possible? Well you can stop now. No need to burn a disk or install it on your computer just to check it out, you can run it in a virtual machine right from your desktop. Many of you have heard of VMware and looked away because of all the five dolla sucky suckys it would take to afford it. Fortunately there exists a free alternative that is just as good, Sun’s VirtualBox (available for Linux, Mac, Windows) . In this video, I will show you how to get BackTrack 4 up and running in it.. oh and the process is the same for any other OS you wish to run as well.

One more thing… what is a Virtual Machine? Well without giving you a brainfart, it is simply a software that uses your host operating system’s resources (cpu,ram,hard drive) to launch and run another operating system within it. For a more technical explanation check out this Wikipedia article…here….just kidding, I’m going to keep you on this site as long as possible. Muaha, find it yourself! So here’s the video:


Get VirtualBox
Get BackTrack 4“”

This Episode looks at this weeks hacker news and discusses what Backtrack is and its new release, Backtrack 4.

Download .mp3 (right-click -> save link as…)
You can subscribe to the podcast feed via one of the two feeds below (might take a day for itunes to update it) :
FeedBurner or iTunes

News stories mentions:

Computer scammers solicit for Haiti

‘Iranian Cyber Army’ claims its first casualty

Baidu sues domain name server after hacker attack

Depressing Analysis Of RockYou Hacked Passwords

Google’s Nexus One Has Multi-Touch Thanks To Hacker

Tor IP anonymising internet service hacked

Sony Playstation 3 Hacked By Father Of iPhone Jailbreak

Website of the week:

www.HappyHacker.org

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BackTrack 4

BackTrack 4 Training“”

If you share your computer and don’t want others to have access to certain applications then you will want to password protect them.  Or maybe if you are developing the next huge virus that will eventually conquer and destroy every computer and robot in the world, you will want to password protect it to avoid accidently clicking and infecting/destroying your computer or having some random computer iliterate bum come along and click it because the button is sexy looking. I am honored to introduce you to the one and all mighty “Protect EXE” !

Protect EXE uses the twofish encryption algorithm to encrypt the EXE’s with a 256 bit key. It does not require an install and is very easy to use. Simply browse to the application you would like to encrypt, put in a password, and hit “Crypt exe”. Restoring the file is just as easy. It is recommended to create a backup of the file you are encrypting just in case something goes wrong.

You can download Protect EXE : HERE.

Another great program with the same purpose is Empathy. It is free but to use all of it’s functions (like more then one letter password) you must get it registered by sending a picture postcard to the owner, Michal Strehovsky. Creepy? Just a little.

You can get Empathy, and postage information HERE.

Who wants to learn how to hack?

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