tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26286129403002485132024-03-14T02:29:16.212-07:00xmlisnotaprotocol0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-71319998859158120212017-11-22T03:41:00.000-08:002017-11-22T03:41:20.029-08:00Ive been looking at syslog tools tryed logzilla and logstash<br />
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yum -y install java-1.6.0-openjdk<br />
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cd /var/www/html<br />
export http_proxy=http://rutherc:99999999@10.20.98.24:8080<br />
wget http://logstash.objects.dreamhost.com/release/logstash-1.2.1-flatjar.jar<br />
#export https_proxy=http://rutherc:99999999@10.20.98.24:8080<br />
#wget http://github.com/elasticsearch/kibana/archive/master.zip --no-check-certificate -O master.zip<br />
wget http://download.elasticsearch.org/kibana/kibana/kibana-latest.zip<br />
unzip kibana-latest.zip<br />
<br />
#perl -pi -e 's/DocumentRoot \"\/var\/www\/html\"/DocumentRoot \"\/var\/www\/html\/kibana-master\"/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf<br />
chkconfig --level 2345 httpd on<br />
service httpd start<br />
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perl -ni -e 'print; print "-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 9200 -j ACCEPT\n" if $. == 9' /etc/sysconfig/iptables<br />
perl -ni -e 'print; print "-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT\n" if $. == 9' /etc/sysconfig/iptables<br />
service iptables restart<br />
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cat << EOF > logstash.conf<br />
input {<br />
file {<br />
type => "syslog"<br />
path => [ "/var/log/*.log", "/var/log/messages", "/var/log/syslog" ]<br />
}<br />
}<br />
output {<br />
elasticsearch { embedded => true }<br />
}<br />
EOF<br />
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mv ./app/dashboards/default.json ./app/dashboards/default.json.org<br />
cp ./app/dashboards/logstash.json ./app/dashboards/default.json<br />
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java -Xmx1024m -jar logstash-1.2.1-flatjar.jar agent -f logstash.conf -web<br />
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10.22.122.16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10.22.122.1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2675<br />
10.20.122.16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10.20.122.1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2675<br />
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pvcreate /dev/sdb<br />
vgextend vgRoot /dev/sdb<br />
lvresize -l +90%FREE /dev/mapper/vgRoot-lvVar<br />
resize2fs /dev/mapper/vgRoot-lvVar<br />
<br />0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-6958623605034703322013-04-18T18:48:00.000-07:002013-04-18T18:48:53.009-07:00How to port the Linux Foremost data carving tool to IBMs AIX on POWER<br />
http://foremost.sourceforge.net/pkg/foremost-1.5.3.tar.gz<br />
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[root:busen]/data/foremost-1.5.3$ make unix<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c main.c<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c state.c<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c helpers.c<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c config.c<br />
config.c: In function 'translate':<br />
config.c:27: warning: value computed is not used<br />
config.c:32: warning: value computed is not used<br />
config.c:37: warning: value computed is not used<br />
config.c:42: warning: value computed is not used<br />
config.c:47: warning: value computed is not used<br />
config.c:52: warning: value computed is not used<br />
config.c:57: warning: value computed is not used<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c cli.c<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c engine.c<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c dir.c<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c extract.c<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX -c api.c<br />
api.c: In function 'get_dir_info':<br />
api.c:107: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type<br />
gcc -Wall -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.5.3\" -D__UNIX main.o state.o<br />
helpers.o config.o cli.o engine.o dir.o extract.o api.o -o foremost<br />
Target "unix" is up to date.<br />
[root:busen]/data/foremost-1.5.3$ make install<br />
install -m 755 foremost /usr/local/bin<br />
install: 0653-233 File 755 was not found.<br />
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.<br />
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Stop.<br />
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AIX has installbsd command so edit makefile.....<br />
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=================<br />
#---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
# INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL<br />
#---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
<br />
install: goals<br />
installbsd -m 755 $(NAME) $(BIN)<br />
installbsd -m 444 $(MAN_PAGES) $(MAN)<br />
installbsd -m 444 foremost.conf $(CONF)<br />
macinstall: BIN = /usr/local/bin/<br />
macinstall: MAN = /usr/share/man/man1/<br />
macinstall: CONF = /usr/local/etc/<br />
macinstall: mac install<br />
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uninstall:<br />
rm -f -- $(BIN)/{$(RM_GOALS)}<br />
rm -f -- $(MAN)/{$(RM_DOCS)}<br />
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macuninstall: BIN = /usr/bin<br />
macuninstall: MAN = /usr/share/man/man1<br />
macuninstall: uninstall<br />
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#---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
# CLEAN UP<br />
"Makefile" 193 lines, 5188 characters<br />
=======================<br />
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[root:busen]/data/foremost-1.5.3$ make install<br />
installbsd -m 755 foremost /usr/local/bin<br />
installbsd -m 444 foremost.1 /usr/local/man/man1<br />
installbsd -m 444 foremost.conf /usr/local/etc<br />
<br />
WORKS! (I also tested it on some images)<br />
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[root:busen]/$ foremost -V<br />
1.5.3<br />
This program is a work of the US Government. In accordance with 17 USC 105,<br />
copyright protection is not available for any work of the US Government.<br />
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO<br />
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.<br />
[root:busen]/$ gcc -v<br />
Using built-in specs.<br />
Target: powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0<br />
Configured with: ../gcc-4.1.1/configure --disable-nls<br />
Thread model: aix<br />
gcc version 4.1.1<br />
[root:busen]/$ ldd $(which foremost)<br />
/usr/local/bin/foremost needs:<br />
/usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)<br />
/unix<br />
/usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr.o)<br />
0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-43738027233049187322012-11-15T16:18:00.000-08:002012-11-15T16:18:20.371-08:00POWER7/PowerVM vs x86/VMware/OracleVM for oracle DB hostingA Colleague ( <span style="background-color: white; color: #009933; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;">http://</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #009933; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px;">twitter</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #009933; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;">.com/</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #009933; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15px;">ZoranGagic )</b> sent me this great breakdown of x86 vs Power7 for hosting oracle...nice to have it all in one spot (below) also this http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/07/even-more-reasons-to-run-oracle-on-vmware.html makes a similar case and now that VMWare have softened up on the vSphere 5 memory tax there is not as much need to go 4.1 as per below<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">HP c7000 with 16 x BL460 G8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">IBM 770<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">CPU cores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">16 x 16 = 256<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">Memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">16 x 144GB = 2304<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">512GB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">Performance, SPECintrate2006<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">16 x 662 = 10,592<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">942<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">Price<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">est $200K<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">$452K (approx)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">COD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">None<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">18 cores/512GB, cost: $10K for 1 core/16GB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">Price difference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">2.3 x more expensive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">Performance difference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">11.2 x faster<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">Price /performance difference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Simplified Arabic Fixed'; font-size: 10pt;">25.7 x better price performance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This does not include virtualisation or OS costs, but numbers are overwhelming….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">General purpose CPU - Intel Xeon E5-2600:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/06/intel_xeon_2600_server_chip_launch/print.html" title="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/06/intel_xeon_2600_server_chip_launch/print.html"><span style="color: #1f497d;">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/06/intel_xeon_2600_server_chip_launch/print.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This will be in every major rackmount, blade server, standard chipset support 24 DIMM sockets (24 x 32GB = 768GB), 10 GbE etc….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Sub $10K for 16 core server with over 144GB memory)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Xeon E5 (2.3b transistors, more CPU cores (8), less heat/power due to 22nm process, bigger L3 cache (20MB)) :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2012q1/cpu2006-20120211-19458.html" title="http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2012q1/cpu2006-20120211-19458.html"><span style="color: #1f497d;">http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2012q1/cpu2006-20120211-19458.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">16 cores, 2 chips, 8 cores/chip, 2 threads/core<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Better to buy a low cost Intel E5 based server with maximum memory available (768GB) and choose VMware ESX 4.1 (not huge memory costs with ESX 5) and RHEL 6.2 on a farm of blade servers such as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-87841850578191784312012-09-17T21:10:00.001-07:002012-09-17T21:11:43.778-07:00The Internet map<a href="http://internet-map.net">The Internet map</a><br />
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An interactive map of teh interwebs!0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-43485185537896844702012-04-22T19:38:00.003-07:002012-04-26T17:13:36.869-07:003 Networky AIX 6/7 gotchas....A colleague came across this tricky gotcha in AIX7 - his scp sessions were stalling on AIX 7.1 (VIO client) LPARs.<br />
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There is not much on the net about this one yet<br />
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By disabling tcp timestamp randomisation feature on both source and target VIO clients the randomised timestamp value is not used for setting the retransmission timer<br />
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#no -o tcp_rand_timestamp=1<br />
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Here is the APAR http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV13121 IV13121: TCP RETRANSMIT PROCESSING IS VERY SLOW.<br />
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One possible cause of an SEA on VIOS flip flopping from primary to backup is processor unfolding delays
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1012941<br />
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Fix - stop folding<br />
# schedo -p -o vpm_fold_policy=4<br />
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There is a fair bit on the net about this one...<br />
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Another one I'll put here (AIX 6/7 and Oracle 11g network stalling/delays)<br />
With Oracle 11g came IPv6 support and even though a hostname may be resolved in IPv4 land a second lookup into /etc/hosts is done for the IPv6 address/hostname.<br />
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If the IPv6 address is not matched in /etc/hosts then it goes out to the DNS servers for IPv6 name resolution because of the (default) name resolution order in net service (/etc/netsvc.conf) was local then bind<br />
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Force the IPv4 ie in /etc/netsvc.conf change local, bind to local4, bind4<br />
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There is a LOT on the net about this one....0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-86992538827740520762012-03-26T20:41:00.002-07:002012-03-26T20:41:22.554-07:00Graphical representation of machine generated data<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UkZLBqX58M">In this plot Im running a (ruby) gltail of apache access log while I rip the site with a recursive wget</a>
Often with machine generated data (eg a syslog stream) there is too much to read every item and its coming in real time from multiple sources so you cant see the forest for the trees.
By graphically showing the data the eye can see if something looks strange or different than normal.
The human eye has a data bandwidth of ~10 Mbps and couple that with the brain and you have a kick ass data miner!0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-4193104566179074072012-03-07T17:08:00.003-08:002012-03-07T17:16:38.526-08:00Ask For Forgiveness ProgrammingI recon <a href="http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/6/ask-for-forgiveness-programming-or-how-well-program-1000-cor.html">THIS</a> is how the brain mitigates Amdahl's law and why our brains are 'slow and inaccurate' when compared to a computer at adding numbers.<br /><br />ACID/locking/mutex/semaphore etc just wont scale to billions of cores (neurons)<br /><br />However a computer is 'slow and inaccurate' at identifying real word objects or doing stand-up comedy.0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-54493975819138386772012-01-12T16:42:00.000-08:002012-01-12T16:57:46.694-08:00Using a GPU to hack(brute-force/dictionary)at a salted MD5 hash....Ive been using john(JtR)for years and one week while my laptop fan was overblowing I thought: there must be a better way than cooking my CPU for a week,that GPU must be able to help so I jumped on the internets and found a few GPU based tools.<br /><br />I tried hashgpu http://www.golubev.com/hashgpu.htm and hashcat http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/<br /><br />I used the OpenCL version of Hashcat+ (there is a cdua version for nivdia cards but I have a ATI) to pick away at a salted MD5 hash. <br />A good wordlist is your best bet,even try and cewl candidate data for a wordlist before you resort to a bruteforce then you can run mp(on hashcat site too) to generate a brute force char stream to stdout<br /><br />$mp64 -1 ?l?u?d ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1 #Lower,Upper,Digits for 8 chars<br /><br />#pipe to hashcat (8 char Lower,Upper,Digits bruteforce...take a while)<br />$mp64 -1 ?l?u?d?s ?1?1?1?1?1?1?1?1 | oclHashcat-plus64 -m 500 hash.txt #dropped the rules mode 500 is md5 unix)<br /><br />I ran a dictionary based attack on my hash with a ruleset that comes with Hashcat, then I use mp to generate 8 char passwords...and go to bed while it chews away on the hash....how good is this software...and its free<br /><br />oclHashcat-plus64.exe -m 500 hash.txt example.dict -r rules/best.rule<br /><br />here is my demo/screen shots....<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LTs_mmne0Q0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-66922645895809051322011-12-14T18:34:00.000-08:002011-12-14T18:36:37.102-08:00Oracle Corp reference one of my test resultsOracle refenrce one of my tests...<br /><br />http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/497230<br /><br />On-chip Cryptographic Acceleration – New crypto units support over a dozen industry standard ciphers, enabling security conscious organizations in industries including telecommunications, healthcare, financial services and the public sector to keep their data safe with up to 44 percent faster secure queries than the latest generation of x86 systems when encrypted with Oracle's Advanced Security Products(4), 3x faster Oracle Solaris ZFS file system encryption than the latest generation of x86 systems(5), and 4x faster single-thread OpenSSL security than IBM POWER7(6).<br /><br />Footnotes:<br />(6)Comparison is based on internal testing of AES-256-CBC encryption at 8K using OpenSSL against published test results for IBM: http://xmlisnotaprotocol.blogspot.com/2010/10/openssl-098-benchmark-on-power7-35ghz.html.0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-13234099789374875502011-11-02T21:27:00.000-07:002012-06-26T19:23:23.492-07:00Compromising emissions!Been reading about various side channel attacks, I think my skills (lateral thinking, electronics, 'puters, physics and math) could lend themselves well to this ...where do I sign up!<br />
basically is eavesdropping information leaked via power,RF/EMI,sound,light or other means to gain information<br />
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis<br />
http://youtu.be/4L8rnYhnLt8<br />
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http://syhw.posterous.com/two-amusing-side-channel-attacks<br />
(USB port power and sound)<br />
http://cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/<br />
(PoC for picking up sound from mobo capacitors to break RSA )<br />
http://digitallounge.gatech.edu/digitallife/index.html?nid=71506<br />
(Keyboard taps)<br />
http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/<br />
(keyboard EMI)<br />
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/08/researchers-cra/<br />
(car keys...brute forcing the private key from all challenge/responses)<br />
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http://www.pop.is/1eyo<br />
(a physical side channel aka safe cracking)<br />
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Padding oracle attacks<br />
http://www.usenix.org/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/Rizzo.pdf<br />
(decrypt ciphertext without knowing the key eg to bypass CAPTCHA )<br />
<span style="background-color: white;">http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/70/47/90/PDF/RR-7944.pdf</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">(</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Efficient Padding Oracle Attacks on Cryptographic Hardware )</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">RSA FOB tokens</span><br />
<a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/broken-tokens/">http://www.geekosystem.com/broken-tokens/</a><br />
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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/11/encryption-for-transit-cards-h.html<br />
(Crack 3DES smart cards with an RFID reader and an oscilloscope, via power analysis of the chip in the card while de/encrypting)<br />
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http://www.techwarelabs.com/rfid-hacking-is-it-a-threat<br />
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http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf<br />
(Read displays at a distance)<br />
http://applied-math.org/acm_optical_tempest.pdf<br />
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=545186.545189<br />
(Flashing lights on your network kit may be a spanned port!)<br />
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TEMPEST backronyms from wikipedia<br />
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Tiny ElectroMagnetic Particles Emitting Secret Things<br />
Transmitted Electro-Magnetic Pulse / Energy Standards & Testing<br />
Telecommunications ElectroMagnetic Protection, Equipment, Standards & Techniques<br />
Transient ElectroMagnetic Pulse Emanation STandard<br />
Telecommunications Electronics Material Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-68152768260944893942011-10-25T21:35:00.000-07:002011-10-25T21:41:05.851-07:00Russian roulette#cat clint-eastwood.sh<br />while :<br />do<br /> echo "are you feeling lucky punk (yes/N)?"<br /> read a ; [[ "$a" = "yes" ]] && kill -9 $(echo $RANDOM)<br />done<br />#./clint-eastwood.sh<br />are you feeling lucky punk (yes/N)?<br />n<br />are you feeling lucky punk (yes/N)?<br />yes<br />kill: 8051: 0403-003 The specified process does not exist.<br />are you feeling lucky punk (yes/N)?<br />yes<br />kill: 18234: 0403-003 The specified process does not exist.<br />are you feeling lucky punk (y/N)?<br />yes<br />kill: 16882: 0403-003 The specified process does not exist.<br />are you feeling lucky punk (yes/N)?<br />yes<br />kill: 13023: 0403-003 The specified process does not exist.<br />are you feeling lucky punk (yes/N)?<br />n<br />#yes|./clint-eastwood.sh0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-32958463732806837812011-10-25T15:17:00.000-07:002011-10-25T15:23:27.650-07:00Cisco IOS on Juniper hardware?This FOSS networking looks interesting e.g. OpenflowSwitch movement http://www.openflow.org/ http://mvdirona.com/jrh/TalksAndPapers/JamesHamilton_CleanSlateCTO2009.pdf<br /><br />Trying to open the network stack -networking is where mainframe was years ago (proprietary everything<br /> <br />SANs are just fighting the ASIC vs. x86 battle now too e.g. http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/3par-v-class-the-best-just-got-better/#comments<br />http://opennetsummit.org/ perhaps when its all converged it will be all commodity hardware running FOSS?0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-53286497367716598612011-10-22T02:39:00.000-07:002011-10-22T02:45:30.448-07:00p7 vs GPU vs intel for HPChttp://domino.watson.ibm.com/library/CyberDig.nsf/papers/EFE521AB23A0D28B85257784004DC9DD/$File/rc25033.pdf<br /><br />Just cant beat GPUs 4 bang for buck eh <br /><br /><br />...ask this guy http://youtu.be/hSVo4ejZ7rc<br /><br />158000 GFLOPS for $420k0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-32618152194882134262011-10-05T15:15:00.000-07:002011-10-05T15:21:33.244-07:00Perl program to work out what the golden screwdriver has doneHere is a perl script Ive written to go out to the IBM POD/MOD DB web site and get back the activations for your iSeries(AS400) or pSeries(RS6000) systems - just feed it the S/n like below<br />(you can then compare this to what you get in the HMC to see if ones missed)<br /><br />$ ./activations.pl 9117 10 06ebb<br />02 processors activated on 05/23/2011<br />024 GB memory activated on 05/23/2011<br />02 processors activated on 03/11/2011<br />016 GB memory activated on 03/11/2011<br />055 GB memory activated on 03/02/2011<br />06 processors activated on 02/22/2011<br />096 GB memory activated on 02/22/2011<br />01 processors activated on 01/12/2011<br />016 GB memory activated on 01/12/2011<br />06 processors activated on 03/17/2010<br />072 GB memory activated on 03/17/2010<br />19 processors activated on 03/16/2010<br />228 GB memory activated on 03/16/2010<br />================<br />TOTAL CPU=36 RAM=519168MB (507GB)<br /><br />$cat activations.pl <br />#!/usr/bin/perl<br />#<br /># PoC Script to go out on the net to the IBM POD site and tally up activations for a given i or p Series machine<br />#rutherfc-gmail.c<br /># v1.0 9/9/2011<br />#<br /># todo - add logic for processor deactivation - who uses that? IBM dont even publish the code on the pod site ;)<br />#<br />use LWP::UserAgent;<br />$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;<br />$ua->agent("mozilla 8.0");<br /># $ua->proxy(['http'], 'http://proxy:8080/');<br />$ua->timeout(10);<br />use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);<br />if ($#ARGV != 2) {<br />print "usage: $0 MODEL XX XXXXX e.g $0 9119 83 9f6bf\n";<br />exit;<br />}<br />($model, $serial1, $serial2) = @ARGV;<br /><br />##### main #####<br />get('http://www-912.ibm.com/pod/pod',"$serial2.htm");<br />html2txt("$serial2.htm","$serial2.txt");<br />total("$serial2.txt");<br />exit;<br /><br />sub get # fakes a mozilla browser, fills in the CGI form and snags the returned page to a local html file<br />{<br />my $req = (POST $_[0],<br />["system_type" => $model,<br />"system_serial_number1" => $serial1,<br />"system_serial_number2" => $serial2 ]);<br />$request = $ua->request($req);<br />$activations = $request->content;<br />open(POD,">$_[1]");<br />print POD $activations;<br />close(POD);<br />}<br /><br />sub html2txt # strips out the crap and converts the table to a local txt file to parse<br />{<br />open(HTML,"<$_[0]");<br />open(TXT,">$_[1]");<br />while (<HTML>) {<br />if (/<\/table>/) {$f = 0;};<br />if (/<th>Posted Date \(MM/) {$f = 1;};<br />if ($f == 1) {<br /># poor mans HTML::TableExtract - excuse my sed like perl....<br />s/<tr align="center">/:/g;<br />s/<[^>][^>]*>//g;<br />s/ //g;<br />s/\n//g;<br />s/:/\n/g;<br />print TXT $_;<br />};<br />};<br />close(TXT);<br />close(HTML);<br />}<br />sub total # totals up the de/activations to get totals<br />{<br />open(TXT,"<$_[0]");<br />$[ = 1; $\ = "\n";# set array base & output record separator <br />while (<TXT>) {<br />($code,$hex,$date) = split(' ', $_, -1);<br />if (/POD/) {<br />$p = substr($hex, 27, 2);<br />print $p . ' processors activated on ' . $date;<br />$pt = $pt + $p;<br />};<br />if (/MOD/) {<br />$r = substr($hex, 26, 3);<br />print $r . ' GB memory activated on ' . $date;<br />$rt = $rt + $r;<br />};<br />if (/RMEM/) {<br />$r = substr($hex, 27, 2);<br />print $r . ' GB memory activated on ' . $date;<br />$rt = $rt - $r;<br />};<br />};<br />print '================';<br />print 'TOTAL CPU=' . $pt . ' RAM=' . $rt*1024 . 'MB (' . $rt . 'GB)';<br />close(TXT);<br />}0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-56795016435639436932011-10-05T14:38:00.000-07:002012-01-10T16:36:02.083-08:00SAP on AIX6/AIX7/POWERHA/OracleIm just collecting these in one spot so I dont need to trawl SAP OSS/SDN again...<br /><br />http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg247564.html (SAP on per redbook)<br /><br />SAP Notes regarding an AIX based SOE<br />http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1048686 Recommended AIX settings for SAP <br />http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1121904 SAP on AIX: Recommendations for paging space <br />http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1278944 AIX C/C++ runtime requirements <br />http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1131691 CPU Utilisation metrics of IBM System p <br />http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1087498 Support for AIX 6.1<br />http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/973227 AIX Virtual Memory Management: Tuning<br /><br />https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap/support/notes/1522360 FAQ for SAP HA installations using PowerHA (HACMP) <br />https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap/support/notes/1541935 Using SAP systems with AIX 7.1<br />https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap/support/notes/1458918 Support for AIX 7.1<br /><br />Oracle RDBMS and IBM related<br /><br />http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-aix6tuning/index.html <br />http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101621 IBM System Storage and SAP High Availability Installations on AIX<br />http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/SAP+and+PowerHA<br />https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap/support/notes/1578479 SAP Support of Power Hardware with AIX<br />http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/TD101347 PowerHA compatibility Matrix<br />http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101616 IBM Storage and SAP - evaluation of HA and DR concepts <br /><br /><br />AIO new method (AIX 6.1) <br />lpar9[/] > ioo -a | grep active<br /> aio_active = 0<br /> posix_aio_active = <br /> <br />there are no more AIO devices in the ODM. <br /><br />two new parameters have been added to ioo: aio_active and posix_aix_active. <br />These can only be changed by AIX, and they are set to 1 only when AIO kernel extensors are used and pinned - you won't find any more AIO servers. <br />there are now aioLpools and aioPpools thesekernel processes manage AIO <br /><br /><br />and dont forget....<br />Language Translation to install →ISO8859-1 German [de_DE]<br />This installs the required bos.loc and bos.iconv file sets0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-75155852716241372342011-05-15T22:40:00.000-07:002012-09-26T22:23:34.128-07:00Free documentaries online<a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com">FREE DOCOs!</a><br /><br />Pretty good selection! bit of a <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> for docos
Here is some fr3e skool'n
http://www.udacity.com
http://www.khanacademy.org
http://www.coursera.org0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-7912735278258768842011-05-15T22:37:00.000-07:002011-05-15T22:40:19.089-07:00Interesting: your eye can make you hear something different- The McGurk Effect<a href=" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0">Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? - BBC Two </a>0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-33925185635936569552011-05-05T20:48:00.000-07:002011-05-05T20:54:02.358-07:00Penryn / Ivy BridgeI never intended this to be a condensed matter physics blog but there have been a few developments in the last few months! Intel look like they have got their 3D transistors sorted for the next gen of x64 processors "Transistor Technology Breakthrough Represents Biggest Change To Computer Chips In 40 Years"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110505092252.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110505092252.htm</a><br /><br />For the first time since the invention of silicon transistors over 50 years ago, transistors using a three-dimensional structure will be put into high-volume manufacturing. Intel will introduce a revolutionary 3-D transistor design called Tri-Gate, first disclosed by Intel in 2002, into high-volume manufacturing at the 22-nanometer (nm) node in an Intel chip codenamed "Ivy Bridge."0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-471145287564116412011-04-25T19:39:00.000-07:002011-04-25T19:42:08.243-07:00Higgs boson spotted at LHC???http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/<br /><br />Rumored that the LHC spotted the Higgs boson at 115-120GeV where theory predicted...<br /><br />Lets see if this is true/verified in the coming weeks0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-66996147504879195292011-04-19T03:55:00.000-07:002011-04-19T03:59:45.756-07:00Live Partition MobilityHere's a demo I've done of a 5 min Live LPAR Mobility (think vmotion for POWER LPARs)<br /> <br />Its a running AIX 6.1 LPAR moved on the fly between 2 POWER7 frames: 5mins, not one lost ping!! (longest delay to any ping I got was ~78ms)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJTKT4K3j-E">remote HMC LPM</a><br /><br />(remote HMC - not both frames under the same HMC this time)0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-52485198845251885422011-04-19T03:47:00.000-07:002011-04-19T03:53:35.972-07:00CentOS 5.6 get ext4Centos 5.6 came out recently (not CentOS 6 - RH drip feed this stuff...)<br /><br />2 points of interest <br /><br />- ext4 filesystem<br />- php 5.3 <br /><br />RH is now a <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/red_hat_billions/">billion dollar company </a> not bad for selling 'free' software0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-18403052928643906782011-04-19T03:38:00.000-07:002011-04-19T03:55:14.023-07:00Couple of nice radiation dosage charts<meta equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Due to the log scale required to show this (or sound) its hard</div><div>
<br /></div><div><meta equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://xkcd.com/radiation/">http://xkcd.com/radiation/</a></div><div>
<br /></div><div><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">XKCD</span> have do a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">bossjob</span> of it!!!</div><div>
<br /></div><div>and to a lesser <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">extent</span>....</div><div>
<br /></div><a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/</a><a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/"></a><div>
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<br /></div><div>does not really show the logarithmic nature as well as the little coloured boxes</div>0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-73655385608763407392011-04-13T05:49:00.000-07:002011-04-13T05:50:07.670-07:00nice azure v ec2 vs google app engine at stackexchangehttp://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/64727/windows-azure-vs-amazon-ec2-vs-google-app-engine0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-64552482304322630752011-04-13T05:45:00.000-07:002011-04-13T05:48:52.609-07:00Move over RRDtool?Graphs look a little SPLUNK!-ish <br /><br />http://graphite.wikidot.com/0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628612940300248513.post-50932607589625359302011-04-13T05:35:00.000-07:002011-04-13T05:37:42.280-07:00Groklaw....<a href="//http://www.groklaw.net">its</a> over, SCO lost, even floating legal warships on M$ money for 8 years0xC0FFEEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16933607670755283152noreply@blogger.com0