Penetration Testing Practice Lab

Published a detailed mindmap for creating a penetration testing lab from multiple vulnerable OS installations and web applications. The latest blog entry also gives the URLs for downloading the applications / VMs.
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How To Convert Webex Recording (.wrf) files to Other Formats

MS WINDOWS :

Download webex recording editor.
Open the recording in the editor.
Export to wmv format to save in wmv format.
File -> Export To
URL to download webex recording editor:
(direct) https://intercall.webex.com/client/T23LSP33EP10/ateditor.msi
or http://www.meetingcentre.net/record_play.htm

How To Convert Webex Recording (.arf) files to Other Formats

MS WINDOWS / APPLE MAC:

Download arf player from Webex download page and install it.
open the arf file in the player and convert the recording to wmv or swf format.
File -> Convert -> wmv or swf
URL to download player: http://www.webex.com/downloadplayer.html

LINUX:

Download nbr2mp4 converter from Webex download page.
The setup file is script file nbr2mp4.sh
Installation is command line. At the shell prompt, issue the following command
sh nbr2mp4.sh
Note the directory where it is installed.
Copy all the arf files to that directory.
Go to shell prompt and cd to that directory.
Then issue the following command,
./nbr2mp4 filename.arf ./ n
where
filename.arf is the webex arf recording file that needs to be converted
./ denotes that the converted files be placed in the present (same) directory
n is a number from 3 - 10 and denotes the frame rate. The higher the frame rate the higher is the quality. But, generally the median is good enough.
Eg:
arf file = myrecording.arf
frame rate = 6
then the command is
./nbr2mp4 myrecording.arf ./ 6

URL to download nbr2mp4 converter:
http://support.webex.com/support/downloads.html

Tool to reduce strain from using computers

WORKRAVE

Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit. Please refer to the feature comparison for a complete list of features, and how the program performs with respect to other programs on the market. The program runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Includes Micro-pause, Rest break, Daily limit and Excercises

Installation:
Windows - Setup file
Ubuntu - Software Center
Other Linux - tar file

URL: http://workrave.org/

Open Yale Courses [OYC]

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

URL: http://oyc.yale.edu/  

Ubuntu Must-Have Apps

OGMRIP

Application for ripping and encoding DVD (Simple and Easy Interface)

ogmrip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI, OGM MP4 or Matroska files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, mkvtoolnix, oggenc, lame and faac to perform its tasks.

o transcodes from DVD or files
 o outputs ogm, avi, mp4 or matroska files
 o calculates video bitrate for a given filesize
 o calculates cropping parameters and scaling factors
 o supports multiple audio and subtitles streams encoding
 o lots of codecs (vorbis, mp3, pcm, ac3, dts, aac, xvid, lavc, x264, theora)
 o uses maximum quality codec switches
 o rips contiguous chapters

Ubuntu Must-Have Apps

K3B

A sophisticated KDE CD burning application

K3b is a GUI frontend to the CD recording programs cdrdao and cdrecord. Its aim is to provide a very user friendly interface to all the tasks that come with cd recording.
It can be used to copy CDs and burn:

- audio CDs (from wav, mp3 or ogg vorbis files)
 - data CDs and DVDs
 - mixed-mode CDs (CD-Extra support)
 - VCDs (1.1, 2.0 and SVCD)
 - ISO files (Joliet/Rockridge and El Torito support)
 - eMovix CDs

For more information, visit the homepage at http://www.k3b.org

Ubuntu Must-Have Apps

LEAFPAD

GTK+ based simple text editor

Leafpad is a simple GTK+ based text editor, the user interface is similar to Notepad. It aims to be lighter than GEdit & KWrite, and to be as useful as them.

Free Perl Video Tutorials

125 PERL TUTORIAL VIDEOS (OVER 15 HOURS)

Very detailed and free :)


URL: http://www.scriptsocket.com/videos.php

Free online multiple antivirus file scanning services

VirScan               http://www.virscan.org
VirusTotal           http://www.virustotal.com
VirusChief           http://www.viruschief.com
Filterbit               http://www.filterbit.com
VirusScan           http://virusscan.jotti.org
Virus.org            http://scanner.virus.org
Novirusthanks    http://scanner.novirusthanks.org

Free Antivirus Software for Linux

The following are few of the linux based antivirus software that are free for personal use

Avast            http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-for-linux-workstation.html
AVG              http://free.avg.com/ww-en/download?prd=afl
BitDefender  http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-80-en--BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-for-Unices.html
ClamAV        http://www.clamav.net/download/
F-prot           http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/
Panda AV     http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/linux/linux.asp

BitDefender AV is the only software with a GUI version and integrates into the desktop environment (Start menu, right click menu ..). It can run continuously in the background similar to windows antivirus software. It also has the antispam module built in and integrates with other useful applications.

ClamAV also has 3rd party GUI interfaces like ClamTk (http://clamtk.sourceforge.net/)