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While my local posts have been light on the security front, I have been doing a bit of the data aggregation of content on social networks and a bit of testing of my own. Recent subjects here cover removed content on these networks and spring boards into becoming the new propaganda mechanism to replace the television. #JustinBieber, so on and so forth.

I got to explain what a hashtag is to my grandparents yesterday, that was quite funny. Speaking of the subject, do not forget that Windows XP end of life support is coming quite soon. April 8th 2014 to be exact.

I have deployed some 2012 Server installs. Granted I had to regHack 2008 compatibility back in quite a bit, largely because Windows 8 removed the config options, but the registry remains intact. Core services tend to operate as in 2008 / 2003, for the most part.

Anyhow, Enjoy some Snowden and Assange talks. You are likely aware of the global surveillance happening, that has been for a decade or so by GCHQ and NSA. These talks from 2014-03-08 will encapsulate the current state of these. Keep on keeping on friends.

(Julian Assange @ SXSW)

(Edward Snowden @ SXSW)
These are remote videos, because both are in exile.

Check your DNS servers, because many vendors have exploited flaws that allow the routers to be changed to new DNS servers. Man In the Middle, yeah an alternate DNS server will certainly allow this type of attack.

300,000+ Routers Hijacked

Affected devices had their DNS settings changed to use the IP addresses 5.45.75.11 and 5.45.75.36. As with the DNS Changer malware, unwitting victims are vulnerable to a loss of service if the malicious servers are taken down, as both primary and secondary! DNS IP addresses are overwritten, complicating mitigation.

Hey. I may have worked in the badge industry, so this video I came into about Prox and RFID card cloning and ID collection is pretty enjoyable to me. Card Formats for building access, and many other cards like Credit Cards are into this stuff.

Quite silly because the old technology is in fact quite active, as of a few years ago when I was working that environment. Facility Codes, Badge Numbers and Card Formats. Such common terms we used. Especially when migrating an old system to your software platform of access control.

I did not do this talk, it is really good and hits on many terms and topics. Highly recommended if you are into the subject.

The methods for modifying your default system start have changed quite a bit over the last few years.  I will add more details to this thread as I experiment, and this will be my main source, for it is written up very well and loaded with info!

https://top-hat-sec.com/forum/index.php?topic=3813.0

– Actually, I just edited the “set default=”0″” parameter to define the default option.  Zero index, so count the menuentry item you want 1st, then subtract one from it and change the param.

Spoiler edition / TL;DR

[*]open your grub.cfg, but do not edit that file
(command) gksu leafpad /boot/grub/grub.cfg
[*]search for menuentry in this listing.  Find the OS choices you want.
[*]open 40_custom and add the menuentry items in the sequence you wish to have your boot order
(command) gksu leafpad /etc/grub.d/40_custom
[*]After pasting in the proper and desired ‘menuentry’ items, save the file.
[*]Backup grub.cfg to a sub-folder and remove it from /boot/grub/ folder.
[*]Also backup into a sub-folder 30_os-prober & 10_linux (then remove from main folder) which can be found in: /etc/grub.d/
[*](command) update-grub
[*]Reboot and see if it worked
 
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gksu may be redundant as root, but it is a good practice to be in, for other distros as a regular user level account.

The guide also covers custom splash screens and stuff.  Fun, but I have some other things to finish up on first

Project to resolve a hard lock screen issue.  Quite a few people are also seeing this issue over the last year.

Work in progress. 
http://community.acer.com/t5/Android-Tablets/Iconia-A500-frozen-at-Acer-logo-boot-screen/td-p/7171/page/4http://community.acer.com/t5/Android-Tablets/Iconia-A500-frozen-at-Acer-logo-boot-screen/td-p/7171/page/4

http://community.acer.com/t5/Android-Tablets/Iconia-A500-frozen-at-Acer-logo-boot-screen/m-p/107683
 

We were the Library portion from http://moveon.org. Hello, I an Ryan Mkowski from Anonymous. I spoke and handed out cards for this domain @ BlissPC.com.

This post is in relation to World Bank Group. Wikipedia info I covered. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank_Group – Mobile
– member banks include:

[*]Goldman Sachs
[*]Bank of America
[*]Citibank
[*]International Monetary Fund IMF @ WikiPedia
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(More will be added)
[url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7E9SUwlooE”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7E9SUwlooE[/url]

As I spoke about World Bank Group at the event, here are some very good notes about the Jesuits.  They are one of the main power families in this web of corruption.

– thanks go to: Ben Fankhauser
“The Jesuits where banned in 83 countries , so they had to come up with a plan to remain power) The Bavarian Illuminati was born in 1776 , (Jesuit Adam Weishaupt was trained on Ingolstadt University which is a Jesuit institution) since then all These Papal Jews (Like The Rotschilds and Rockefellers) have gotten all the Important Positions (Knights of malta) , This is why most researchers end up Blaming the Jews in General OR only blame The Zionists while all these powerful Masonic Labour Zionists are Knighted into The Vatican Knighthoods and are all Catholic. Its The Jesuits that control it ALL. The Ptolemaic Papal Bloodlines give advice to the Jesuit generals and are more powerful then for example The English Queen who is part of the Black Venetian Nobility Bloodlines.”

As for Karen Hudes (World Bank Whistle-blower), here is her Facebook and personal website address.  She is an excellent resource!
https://www.facebook.com/karen.hudes.9
http://kahudes.net/

– invite details –
☆YOU’RE INVITED!☆
Take Action
Wednesday in Penfield

Host: Paul F.

Where: Public Library, Ruth Braman Room (in Penfield)

When: Wednesday at 7:00 PM EST

1985 Baird Road
Penfield, NY 14526

I will add more info to this post. Also about Group of Eight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_8]Group of 8[/url] @ WikiPedia

Full Link to World Bank Group article on WikiPedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank_Group

I recall this question coming up before but never could find the old thread, so here’s a new one.  The situation is one of your HDDs gives you the dreaded ‘unallocated partition’ display in Disk Management, as you were wondering why you had no partitions display for that drive.

You likely have a corrupted boot table, but fear not (yet).  You might be able to run TestDisk to fix that partition table and get back into your prior files, completely intact.

Read the wiki carefully before running the program, since partition writes are something you don’t want to do on the wrong drive and paying attention may pay off nicely for you.  It would appear you need to run this program sequence for each partition to be restored.

To be safe, I recovered the 1st partition and am migrating my data, before restoring whatever is on the smaller 2nd partition.  Happy Data recon and partition recovery.

edit:

As for the 2nd partition, my issue actually comes from reporting that the end and start of the 2nd partition intersect one another.  Mighty glad I backed up the 1st data partition before getting data from the second one.

To recover the 2nd partition, I used the browse option in TestDisk (‘P’ to view files I think it was).  When viewing the file structure, you can select the folder and copy it to another disk on your rig.  Be warned, the file browsing folder recovery is a very slow process.  Just under a 1000 files around 80GB, took probably 6+ hours to copy by this method.

Despite being slow, all files did copy from the sub-partition successfully.   That old drive needs a repartition, of only 1 for that drive.

I searched but didn’t see a dedicated thread, yet made.  Welcome because I’ve found some silly things in supporting Autodesk / Autocad environments over the last year+.

Today’s issue was relating to an error 29001 and 500.21 error coming from IIS.  My Server OS is Windows 2012 x64 and software in question is Autodesk Vault Basic 2013.  Below is the dialog box verbage I was given.

Error 29001.  Vault management error: IIS 8.0 Detailed Error – 500.21 – Internal Server Error

Let me also state that the installer for 2013 Vault will bark about the IIS version before it starts to install.  To move past this, just stop IIS, recheck requirements in the installer and it should now pass.  Click Next / Continue once the pre-install check is clear, then Start IIS back up.

IIS 8.0 is not properly read by this installer, so it assumes it’s a conflicting web service.

Once proceeding beyond the requirements check, I got the error 29001 as quoted above.  Searched the internets, but found most info related to an older installer or another operating system.  All in all, no dice.  Per frustration, I tried the Vault Basic 2014 installer and only had an error about ASP test failing… hmm.

So, to fix this up, you’ll want to Add Roles and Features to your Server 2012 install.  Under Web Server, you’ll want:

[*]ASP.NET 3.5
[*]ASP.NET 4.5
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installed.  Selecting these will also add some prerequisite packages, you want to do this too.  Doing this enabled the 2014 installer to pass the pre-install check without issue, so I thought why not try the 2013 install again?  Worked this time for me.  Fantastic!

 

Other steps I took, based off previous issues was to modify the IIS Application Pool.  Disabling 32 bit mode was a thing I had to do previously for Vault 2013 installs, so I applied the same to this install.

 

Merry Autodesking and Good Luck!