Kali Linux Tools Listing. With links to additional information.

Here is a listing of all the tools that are included in the standard package of Kali Linux. If I have missed anything please post a comment and I will add it. Click on a link to find out more info about each tool on the official Kali Linux tools site. I will be writing up tutorials on most of these tools, and trying my best to setup a lab so that I can test each and every one of these tools, which will take some time cause some of these tools are for hacking things such as smart cards and utility meters, which I can not do at this time without permission from someone. I will not do anything illegal, and you should not either. I do not write about these posts for people with malicious intent.

How to protect your privacy online useing the TOR network. Now easier than ever! For windows users!

This is going to a short and sweet post about online anonymity. This tutorial is for windows, for my friends that are not to tech savvy but want to protect there privacy.

In this article I will be teaching you how to install and use the famous TORBUNDLE, for those of you that don't know this is a network that you connect to that tunnels all web traffic through a series of anymous servers so that you can not be tracked at all. There are some things that you need to do a bit differently, but once you have the hang of it you can have no fear no matter what you get into on the web. Lets start.

Basicly, the people over at the tor project have put in alot of work to make this a simple and user friendly as possible, this is where the torbundle comes in. You basically just run the file provided and it pops up a modified Firefox that runs through the tor network and has addons that stop scripts from running that could compromise your privacy.

To start download the torbundle located here.

Torbundle Download

Run the installer, select a spot that will be easy for you to access for the install location, let it do its thing. Now it is installed in the folder you chose, I selected the desktop as that is a simple and quick place for me to open it from.

Now open the folder that it installed into, and open the program that says start Tor Browser.

For the people that are just worried about the possibility of someone watching there traffic, which is most of us you will want to just push the first option to connect directly to the tor network. Now if you were in china or some other country where your internet is being filtered and monitored, then you will want to click the second button, but that is beyond the scope of this article. I will get into that in another article.

Give it a second to load, and after it has connected it will open up a pre configured firefox browser that is anonymous. To make sure it is working click the link on the home page that says test for network settings. See the ip that pops up?? I am in the Midwest United States, but it says I am located in Berlin, at the World Famous Chaos Computer Club!! Lucky me huh? Here is a screener of proof, notice it even says that I am not behind a proxy? This is what we want!

It is that simple to take a huge step to protect your privacy! And this is one of the best and most trusted ways to stay anonymous, political activists, reporters in censored countries, and secret agents all put there faith in this technology and now my readers can as well.

As always thanks for reading, and stay safe!

Restoreing a Verizon Droid RAZR M to factory and ROOTING. The easy method!

I recently came upon a few of the mind blowing DROID RAZR M xt907 Android smartphones to play with, repair, and maybe even take apart! I know I love a good tear down, and I’m willing to bet you guys would love to see the insides as bad as I do. But we will save that fun for last.

Rolling in at a jaw dropping 549.99, these better be some tiny powerhouses!

Here's  the low down on the specs

 Droid RAZR M Specs @ Phone Arena

What I’ve got to play with today are as follows:

1. All Black DROID RAZR M w/ messed up case.
2. One of the White DROID RAZR M’s with a cracked screen
3. One of the White DROID RAZR M’s with a cracked screen and a boot failure

All of which I plan to do today, as well as my other job. Talk about hardcore geek! Love it. Here are two of them. 

 

I will be repairing the black phone, perhaps useing black front and the white back for that custom touch, who knows with me. Update.  I did make the black and white RAZR

Here I will l be fixing the boot failure on the White RAZR M Using a nice tool I picked up,  called DROID RAZR M UTILITY.

Here is is a great and simple method for restoring your RAZR M Android OS and your files that are needed to boot if you had a brain fart and thought you bricked your DROID RAZR M xt907 (And lost 550.00 bucks to boot. *Just a thought I hope most the people that got these awesome phones were smart and got the extended warranty, IMHO just to much to just drop and break without some coverage) And the good news is that if you don’t root your device that warranty will remain valid! So if you paid for extended; don’t root, unless you can’t help yourself like me.

The tool that I’ve found and used several times on my Motorola DROID RAZR M with great success at repairing my RAZR. It is called DROID_RAZR_M_Utility1.10. So before we down to business and collect our software. Heres the tools you need, most of this is just Motorola DROID drivers but must be downloaded or you will FAIL.

·         DROID_RAZR_M_Utility1.10 As mentioned before, if you own a DROID RAZR M XT907 this is a must have. Get it here:  http://d-h.st/9zc  This includes the optional root program, which won't be needed as I have a better method. 

You have to get your device into AP FastBoot Mode in order for the exploit to work. In order to enter AP Fastboot Mode, simply turn off your device and then hold the volume up and down buttons and then push the power and hold it until a boot menu opens up. Use the volume down key and the volume up to select, Choose AP FastBoot. Hard part is over, No Sweat.

**Make sure you plugged your usb into your computer.  Now,  open the folder where you unzipped the DROID RAZR M Utility and run the windows batch file. You will see a screen just like this. 

 

Make sure your phone has a good charge and also make sure usb debugging is turned on and your plugged into your computer. Go ahead and press any key to start the utility.

After you have ran the utility and selected option 1 it will install/flash the phone with the factory Verizon DROID RAZR M rom. After that is complete, you will have a fresh factory image that should boot right up and work like a charm. You will have to re-enter your gmail and personal info to set-up the phone just like you would from a factory.

 But there is a trick that might just save your data. It’s about hitting CTRL+C when the RAZR Utility says you can press enter to wipe data; press CTRL+C to end the utility before it deletes your data. I have heard of boot loops being caused by this but you can always just reflash with the DROID RAZR M Utility 1.10. But this has never been an issue for me.  While it’s good to start with a fresh device, sometimes there is just so much data that you can’t afford to lose it so its always a good idea to backup your data before you have an issue. That way you can always recover your pictures and music. 

If you are interested in rooting your DROID RAZR M I have a surprise for you!  I've found a utility that automatically roots several models of smart phones. 

This is a screenshot I took rooting one of my test phones. It really was that easy, I’m impressed! As you can see it features UnRoot, and ADB Toolbox which contains versus adb commands that could save your life!

To use this program simply download it from there official site and install. Make sure you have USB Debugging turned on your phone and that it is plugged in the USB! For this you need to be in the OS not fastboot! Now just sit the RAZR down and click Root Device (smartmethod). You will see whats going on in the text window, once it is done it will give you some instructions to complete the exploit.

For the DROID RAZR M all I had to do was unlock the screen, press ok in the root program, then press restore on the phone. Bam. Rooted RAZR M! Below are the links to get this software.

Here is what you see on your phone immediately after rooting.Click restore to keep all data!

Download SRS One Click Root for Rooting Android

Click here to see all the models SRS supports.

There you have it, stay tuned for more great Android tutorials! As well as hacking and Linux tutorials, and maybe a mix of random geekery! Thanks for reading!

How to install Firefox on Kali Linux (and other distros)

Alot of people are used to using Firefox for there web browsing, especially if you are a native Windows User (if you use IE you are probably lost. lol) But anyways, here is a simple way to install my favorite browser in my favorite penetration testing distribution!

Open terminal. Type the following commands. Do this line by line so that we can see the response from every command. This is a learning experience after all. Right?

apt-get remove iceweasel

echo -e "\ndeb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com C1289A29

apt-get update

apt-get install firefox-mozilla-build

And there you have it enjoy! Feel free to comment!

Official Kali Linux Torrents! Get yours now and join in!

I am provideing links to all of the official Kali Linux Torrents here. In my opinion p2p is the best and fastest way to get any file and it saves the people that developed these amazeing distros money on bandwidth, so please use these torrents to obtain your copy of Kali! I love the fact that I can share these with you, if you haven't checked out Kali Linux you are in for a real treat!
 

IMAGE NAME	VERSION	TORRENT	SIZE	SHA1SUM
Kali Linux 64 bit ISO	1.0.8	Torrent	2.9G	939cc7bbc42b598d6c8f359fd1bfe2a919de8ed0
Kali Linux 64 bit mini ISO	1.0.7	Torrent	25M	fe0fab66c49325c295a116cefd00ca94993efee0
Kali Linux 32 bit ISO	1.0.8	Torrent	3.0G	6edfe99df28747d828ef6de17ded66fed6659a86
Kali Linux 32 bit mini ISO	1.0.7	Torrent	22M	e0fc02e7e8d74b2267b7cae5055ab7b9422e6c1c
Kali Linux ARMEL Image	1.0.8	Torrent	2.1G	da087347ccd95d893f303989c1c50ea808be5dcd
Kali Linux ARMHF Image	1.0.8	Torrent	2.0G	76650553b492d237d58478581eac6aaaaa0e1737

Deciding how you would like to install Kali Linux

One of the first things that you will want to do if you are planning on learning how to hack on Linux is to install a Linux distribution. We will be using Kali Linux, which is the next generation of the famous Backtrack.

There are several simple options on how to do this, which one you choose depends on what type of hardware you have sitting around. The options are as follows:

1. Install as main OS. This option is really great if you have for example a extra laptop sitting around. With this option you will have the opportunity to use Linux as your day to day OS which is the best way to learn the inner workings of Linux.

2. Install as Duel Boot on your current machine. This option is the best of both worlds, you can just reboot and choose which OS to boot into, this is a great option. Highly recommended.

3. Install as a virtual machine. This is my personal favorite way of doing lab work, but you have to have a decently fast computer to use virtualization. With this setup you can make literal fake networks to test your tools and teqniques on, I will have a post about how to setup your own mock battlefield in the future.

4. Last but not least, you could set Kali up as a live cd or USB. This is the most common way people get started with Linux, due to the fact that it is so easy once you get the hang of it, the only downside is, it is impossible to save if you are running a Live CD, and it gets complicated if you want to use USB with persistence. But to just show off your hacking skills, you might want to carry a USB flash drive with you that has been formatted to Kali, just think of how handy your friends will think you are when they forget there windows password and you pop in your usb reboot and reset the password in a matter of minutes.

I will leave this post as is to allow you time to think and review your options, I will write posts on how to get up and running with each option in the near future.