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HakTip 50 – Update All of Your Programs at Once With AppUpdater!

Jason — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:45 +0000

Ever wish you could just update all of your programs at once instead of when they give you a popup to do so? You can with this Windows program similar to apt-get upgrade in Linux, called AppUpdater.

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I hate it when I want to open a program and move on with my life only to be hit with a popup saying the program needs to be updated... And then I put it off for two months and see the popup every time. It's annoying! AppUpdater was made for problems like this. It gives a user the same functionality you'd get with apt-get upgrade in Linux.

Some features include:

Automatic upgrades, USB support, cross platform functionality, proxy support, ability to create your own repositories, a command line interface or GUI, etc.

It's also free and open source :)

Now I've got it installed on my netbook and if I click "New (Not Installed)", it'll give me a list of supported programs that work with AppUpdater. I can download and install programs from this list or I can click on "Scan" to scan my computer for known programs. It will open a list under "Installed" and give me the name and version number of each program. Now, I can choose to "Download all Updates" then "Install all Updates" or I can click on one of the programs highlighted in red and just install that one. Hey, that's cool! I don't have to wait til every frakkin' program gives me a popup, I can just do all my updates on the fly like once a month.

I did notice when testing the program I had to restart it to make it acknowledge my new versions that I'd updated. I also tried to update Python, but it wouldn't work through AppUpdater... All in all? A decent program with a few minor glitches, but it works non-the-less.

How do you keep your programs and Apps updated? Tell me about it in the comments or email us -- tips@hak5.org.

And be sure to check out our sister show, Hak5 for more great stuff just like this.

Hak5 1023 – Automate Everything, Using Expect and Encrypting One Cloud

Jason — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:57:41 +0000

This time on the show we're automating everything! Darren shows off intelligent scripting with expect for Linux. Then I'll be encrypting folders from a context menu in Gnome, pairing 'em with some cloud services and boom, you've got secure backups. Plus, multi-core GCC compiling, directory size scripting and can USB drives be trusted? All that and more this time on Hak5!

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This time on the show we're automating everything! Darren shows off intelligent scripting with expect for Linux. Then I'll be encrypting folders from a context menu in Gnome, pairing 'em with some cloud services and boom, you've got secure backups. Plus, multi-core GCC compiling, directory size scripting and can USB drives be trusted? All that and more this time on Hak5!

If you're into Hak5 you'll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you're a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let's not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.

Hak5 1022 – Learn to code easily with free online tools

Jason — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:53:55 +0000

This time on the show, pound include programming dot h! We're going to void main and Hello World all up in this biznitch. Python, JavaScript, BASIC? It's time to learn to code! All that and more this time on Hak5............return zero

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This time on the show, pound include programming dot h! We're going to void main and Hello World all up in this biznitch. Python, JavaScript, BASIC? It's time to learn to code! All that and more this time on Hak5............return zero

CodeAcademy is a website where you can learn to code JavaScript for free, in your own home environment, and be social about it. It was made by a couple of guys, Zach and Ryan, who were frustrated with the less effective ways of teaching how to develope codes.

First off, what is JavaScript? It's a scripting language usually implemented in websites to make the site experience more user friendly and enhanced. It's also used in desktop widgets, PDF's, etc. It popped up around '95 with Netscape and was influenced by the Java programming language. To this day, JavaScript is still one of the most popular programming languages on the web.

On Codeacademy, your lessons are personalized. You can use your own words for the lessons and chapters, and whenever you get past certain points, you earn badges! Being an avid FourSquarer, Steamer, GetGlue'er, and such- I find this a wonderful concept that really sucks people in. The lessons aren't written in geek-speak, so anyone can do it. Seriously, what classroom setting is going to say ""it's time to become a coding ninja!""?

When I was in college I took one coding class- Intro to Java. That's it. I have no coding ability whatsoever, but after taking a few lessons at Codeacademy, I know how to write a few simple Java Scripts. So if you are new to coding, this would be a great place to start. It'll get your foot in the door so you can have a headstart in more advanced material.

So, I'm impressed! Being a beginning coder, I'm not expecting to walk away from this site with the knowledge of a genius but after a few hours, I'll understand JavaScript a whole heck of a lot better.

If you're into Hak5 you'll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you're a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let's not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.

Hak5 1021 – Build a free PXE server to boot Linux over the network!

Jason — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:45:16 +0000

This time on the show, setting up a PXE server to launch Debian and Backtrack without using optical media! Plus Dale Chase's Nerdcore CES wrap-up and some linux lovin' bash-fu. All that and more, this time on Hak5!

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If you're into Hak5 you'll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you're a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let's not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.

Hak5 at CES 2012

Jason — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:40:29 +0000

We visited the Consumer Electronic Show again in Las Vegas this year, and we found plenty to talk about! Here you’ll find all 40+ of our segments and interviews from the show floor. Amongst all of those OLED tvs and 3D monitors are some great little treasures. Here are the coolest open source, Linux based, wireless enabled devices and gadgets sure to tickle your technolust. Enjoy!

Hak5 1020 – Gladinet Cloud Desktop and Keylogging with AutoIt

Jason — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:05:51 +0000

is time on the show, access your cloud via explorer, Mubix joins us to talk keylogging with AutoIt, and a few of your tips and questions. All that and more, this time on Hak5!

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This time on the show, access your cloud via explorer, Mubix joins us to talk keylogging with AutoIt, and a few of your tips and questions. All that and more, this time on Hak5!

There are plenty of Cloud Services available now but not many of them actually hook all of your services up so you have access to many of them through the same window. Gladinet Cloud Desktop is an emerging software application that does something kind of like that. It’s available in 32 / 64 bit versions, and only works on Windows machines. It seems to be built for a target audience of companies and business professionals, with a starter edition being free but all the others come with a 30 day free trial, then you pay somewhere near $50 a year. By the way, click buy it now and there’s a referral program where they give you $10 for each friend that signs up. They also have a cloud server starting at $5 per month, but I’m just going to stick with checking out the Cloud Desktop application.

Download the version of your choice, and go through the on screen setup. With their Cloud Storage Desktop you can access your cloud storage on a number of different sites (i.e. Box.net, amazon S3, Rackspace, even your own FTP server, etc.). This seems to be really handy for anyone that has Amazon S3 because they have several options for all of the applications. Although, I did notice that a lot of services are not available, like Dropbox and Spideroak, and Google Docs won’t work if you use two factor authentication. When you mount your online storage from another company, you have to enter your username and password which are stored locally. They say on their site the security is in-memory only, SSL Secured and AES 256 bit encrypted. You can also have your cloud folder synced to all of your computers if you want to.

After this super simple setup, you now have access to all of your online storage through Windows Explorer, no need to log into your internet browser or open another program. All you need is some cloud storage somewheres, and Gladinet mounts it as a virtual drive for all your syncing needs. Looks cool! Just wish the more advanced versions didn’t cost so much… I’m such a penny pincher. So all in all, Gladinet looks really cool and it’s SUPER easy. I like it but they have some limits to my needs. They need to join forces with some other companies like my fav- SpiderOak- and add the two factor authentication abilities for Google Docs. What do you think? You can always email us or comment and we’ll be sure to check those out.

If you’re into Hak5 you’ll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let’s not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.

Hak5 1019 – Social Network Scamming, Tracelytics and Plex

Jason — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:32:02 +0000

This time on the show, Darren and Shannon are out so Jason Appelbaum and Colleen Henry are stepping with. With Brian Brushwood showing off this social scam to rock the iTunes charts, Jason showing offTracelytics, and Colleen checks out Plex

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If you’re into Hak5 you’ll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let’s not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.

Hak5 1018 – Damn Cheap VoIP, Jolicloud and Bash scripts

Jason — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:17:18 +0000

This time on the show, home voice over IP setups using Free Switch — Christian Fernandez of Custard joins us. Then, Jolicloud OS — is it cloudy…..and jolly? Plus bash watch scripts, remapping capslock from the terminal and Jason Appelbaum on Carrier IQ.

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If you’re into Hak5 you’ll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let’s not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.

Hak5 1017 – 23 Questions with Kevin Mitnick

Jason — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:34:45 +0000

This time on the show Kevin Mitnick is in the house to answer questions from us and you! Then preventing file clobbering with mistyped wakkas and keeping big brother from eavesdropping on you! Plus, a missle whistle? All that and more this time on Hak5!

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If you’re into Hak5 you’ll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let’s not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.

Hak5 1016 – Virtualized USB booting with QEMU, Steganalysis with Scalpel, x11vnc, screen for windows

Jason — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:50:40 +0000

This time on the show, carving hidden files with scalpel, booting USB drives in Linux from QEMU and VNC tips for BackTrack and Android. All that and more this time on Hak5!

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Int0x80′s Scalpel Segment

Scalpel- A Frugal, High Performance File Carver

int0x80 on Github

DualCoreMusic.com

@dualcoremusic

Booting USB drives from within Linux with Qemu

Earlier in the season I talked about using the plop bootloader to boot USB thumbdrives from Virtual Box in Windows. Well, today thanks to an email from Rob we’ll be doing something similar in Linux.
Rob wrote:

Hey Guys and Gal,
I saw the *fix* for Virtualbox booting a USB drive with plop and loved it. Plop is how I boot USB on my Macbook Pro. Nice tip, but here’s another way to test your USB keys, fire up a terminal and launch ‘ sudo qemu -hda /dev/sdx ‘ where x is the drive letter of your USB drive under Linux. Qemu will launch a VM with the key as a hard drive. Hope someone gets some use out of this.

Thanks Rob!
We’ll begin by opening a terminal. The shortcut since I’m using Gnome is CONTROL+ALT+T.

Now if you don’t already have qemu installed you can get it by entering “”sudo apt-get install qemu”". I’ve already done this so it will just say it’s already installed.

So now that QEMU is installed we’ll need to figure out what device our thumbdrive is. One way to figure this out is to enter “”ls /dev/sd*”" before and after plugging in your flash drive and seeing what changed. So I’ll type “”ls /dev/sd*”" and hit enter and I can see I have “”sda”" and “”sdb”" and if I plug my thumbdrive in now, wait a moment for it to pop up, and now enter “”ls /dev/sd*”" again I’ll see that “”sdc”" shows up.
Another way to figure this out is to enter “”dmesg”" and look for the attached device.

Ok so with all that figured out we’re ready to finally boot off our thumb drive. Just type “”sudo qemu -hda /dev/sdc”" and hit enter.
And there you go, your thumb drive is booting from within Linux using QEMU. Here I can see Puppy Linux is starting up. Yay! Now I have Linux running inside of Linux! That’s almost as fun as dividing by zero! That’s so meta… ha! So do you have comments or questions? Email me at feedback@hak5.org or drop a line in the comments section.

If you’re into Hak5 you’ll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let’s not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.

Hak5 1015 – Recovery & Forensics with Scalpel, Cloud storage with PogoPlug and 1000mw WiFi in the US?

Jason — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:39:11 +0000

This time on the show, Eighty of Dual Core returns for a little file recovery mojo using Scalpel. Then Jed Putterman of Pogoplug joins us to talk cloud storage. Plus can bash scripts monitor your CPU temperature? Radiating Paul-the-Camera-Guy’s brain with a 16dBi Yagi antenna and transmitting WiFi over 500mw in the US, can it be done? All that and more this time on Hak5!

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Int0x80′s Privoxy Segment

Scalpel- A Frugal, High Performance File Carver

int0x80 on Github

DualCoreMusic.com

@dualcoremusic

Nibble
Rocco wrote: In case you need to monitor your CPU temperature, you can write a short script:

while sleep 1 ; do acpi -t ; done

If you’re into Hak5 you’ll love our new show by hosts Darren Kitchen and Shannon Morse. Check out HakTip!

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, HakTip is essential viewing for current and aspiring hackers, computer enthusiasts, and IT professionals. With a how-to approach to all things Information Technology, HakTip breaks down the core concepts, tools, and techniques of Linux, Wireless Networks, Systems Administration, and more

And let’s not forget to mention that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, Subscribe to the show and get all your Hak5 goodies, including the infamous WiFi Pineapple over at HakShop.com. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact us at feedback@hak5.org.