September « 2009 « Hackers For Charity

The Ethical Hacker Network (EH-Net) teams with The Informer. The EH-Net contribution will be the answers to the Skillz H@ck1ng Challenges a few days before they are revealed on EH-Net. We start this month with the answers for the last hacking challenge published on August 2009, “Prison Break – Breaking, Entering & Decoding“.

It is an honor for me to drive this initiative, with the support of Don Donzal (EH-Net) and Ed Skoudis (Challenge Master), and start posting the official answers of this challenge on The Informer. Then, in a few days, both the answers and winners will be announced on EH-Net as usual.

The “Prison Break – Breaking, Entering & Decoding” challenge answers are contained in a single PDF file (27 pages) plus three associated screencasts (“BTv4 802.1q (VLAN) setup”, “Metasploit meterpreter Windump/Winpcap sniffer”, and “Metasploit meterpreter built-in sniffer module”).

I hope you enjoy it, and we look forward to the participation of The Informer subscribers in future EH-Net challenges! Next up is the October Challenge by James Shewmaker based on the TV show Sliders, and then Ed Skoudis’ annual Christmas Challenge coming in December.
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Raul Siles
www.raulsiles.com

I thought our Moroccan guests were treating us like royalty. The truth is, this is just how they roll. Every day, the staff here eats a lunch like this…

Gorgeous Table…

Nice Place Setting

They called these “angry fish”…

Because they bite their own tails….

Meat, and prunes, pear and eggs…

…and a healthy dessert.

I have no idea how they eat this much food then make it through the day. I need a nap after lunch…. or coffee… lots and lots of cafe au lait….

This posts lists “before” photos and explores the area surrounding the Wakitaka site. You’ll get to see what the neighborhood looks like, and the center before we moved the machines and tables in.

More photos after the break ..

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Busembatia's Main Street

Alpha's Sign

Rebecca and her Staff outside their shop

Inside the shop

Fred works on a P3 while Rebecca looks on

A fairly common Internet connection: CDMA handset (Mango / UTL)

This.. poor... machine. Typical though. We're fixing this one then teaching them how to take care of their machines...

We brought back the poor broken P2 and Fred took a crack at it. The CDROM was toasted. We replaced it (20,000/= or $10) then added two 64MB memory sticks to the 64MB that was already in there. Rebecca told us that the Jinja repair shops “couldn’t fix this machine”. They suggested she take it to Kampala after taking her for over 100,000/=. Fred fixed it in an afternoon with a handful of parts. He even cleaned the machine inside and out.

I gave the machine to Rebecca today and she asked, “Is this the same machine I gave you? It looks new!”

Needless to say, she was thrilled. We didn’t charge her for the service, although she asked to pay us. The total bill was like $30 worth of parts, had we bought them in town. This is exactly why we need gear. I’d love to set up a shop here where students like Fred can do excellent quality work while learning tech skills that will sustain them. I’m blown away by how much Fred can do. He’s really taking off and runs with every bit of training I throw his way.

But he’s not alone. People here latch onto training and absolutely eat it up. If we had the gear and the training material, we could really grow this thing and amplify it. One step at a time….

P.S. Posted Monday night. Tomorrow I fly to Morocco for a training gig. I’ll be there for three weeks. It’s good money and this one gig could support us for months. I hate leaving for this long, but Jen’s insistant that this is took good an opportunity to pass up. The kids are even behind it, but I hate just leaving things for three weeks. I’ll be posting from Morocco (I WILL get a connection) and I’ll be balancing some projects remotely. Gear is being shipped thanks to Tim and Chris (11 nComputing x550′s) and I hope to hit the ground running when I get back. More later.

I’m amazed and blessed by what my friend Marcus Carey is up to. He’s been such a big supporter of us for so long, and he keeps outdoing himself. I’ll be blasting this con more in the days to come, but here’s the press release for now. Check out DojoCon and the DojoCon2009PressRelease!

Sick as a dog today. Fever, nasty headache, nausea. I really feel like crap. But here’s one from the archives to catch you up a bit. Wicked storms tonight. The worst wind we’ve seen in a long time. Like a hurricane or something. This country’s going nuts! Are these the like end times or something? =)

Or, I could do what everyone else does and just jam the wires into the sockets. Gads.

Today's paper

Today's paper

I’ve never seen this much military activity. On our road today, I counted six massive armored transports (“mambas”) heading to Kabaka bristling with armed soldiers.

Armed transports speeding up our road

Even the local police are on alert with police checkpoints slowing traffic and inspecting vehicles travelling in and out of Jinja.

Police checkpoints across the Nile bridge into Jinja

Although I’m sure it’s unrelated, we lost both power and water for the first time since we’ve been here. The power and water are back now, but things here are strange right now. We’re safe here in Njeru, but it’s scary how fast this country descended into turmoil. Pray for peace and a calm to settle on this dangerous situation.