Once inside an SSH session, you may realize that you need to reach another box via the local port redirect (-L 1234:192.168.0.5:23 for example). Most people think you need to kill your SSH session to add a new -L option, then reinitiate the SSH session; this is NOT true. You can open an internal SSH [...]

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An excellent how-to on the subject, complete with screenshots. Here’s a link to Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).

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The kernel was released by Linus on Dec. 24th, Among the enhancements: Ext4 which has now been declared stable, and no longer experimental, will be the successor to the long-standing ext3. It can support a file system up to 1 exabyte in size (that’s 1,048,576 terabytes to everyone else) and single files up to 16TiB. [...]

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Below is a link to a great article on how intranet IRC servers could be set up to do work, communicate as well as socialize. Using IRC internally on a corporate network is a creative application of a tried & true technology. It’s as instant as IM and SMS, and with some creative bot-making, can [...]

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From the Ubuntu Geek: eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.It provides advanced key management and policy features. eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key, and there is no need [...]

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Wired has the inside story of Max Ray Butler, a former white hat hacker who joined the underground following a jail stint for hacking the Pentagon. His most ambitious hack was a hostile takeover of the major underground carding boards where stolen credit card and identity data are bought and sold. The attack made his [...]

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Practical attacks on WEP & WPA, including WPA packet injection: Details (PDF): http://tinyurl.com/56j63s. More here: http://tinyurl.com/8erk74. From the site: The attack is essentially a variant of the chopchop attack used against WEP secured networks, which surfaced in early 2005. The name “chopchop attack” is a nod to the KoreK-developed chopchop tool, which allows the user [...]

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Amazing. The ramifications could be huge:

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For Android (G1) users, a good IRC client, though still in beta and not yet on the market, so you’ll have to download the .apk file directly: be sure to go to your settings page on your G1, then to Applications, then check “unknown sources”, so you can download .apk files directly without having to [...]

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