I am also trying to buffer overflow an ftp server. I have all the offsets correct and am correctly overwriting the return address. However the FTP server does not run properly when i implement the...

seems to crash in the middle of downloads... surprised more people do not get this error considering it happens pretty often

use wireshark. it should be blatantly obvious if someone is cracking your WEP

yea, what you want to do is analyze the stack through gdb.
use the x/50x command. This will print out the stack at a given location for 50 bytes
"x/50x &buffer" - prints 50 bytes from the start of...

Hey,
Im trying to brute force an SSH login (permission granted) with Hydra.
Except when i try it says that I cannot connect to the target port (22).
Whats up with that? I can ping the port and...

Got it,
you cant use airdecap-ng 1.01, have to use older version. you can make changes to the files but that was too much work, so i just downloaded 0.9.1 or 0.9.3 and they both work. once you have...

I have the backtrack3 final, and firefox seems to crash randomly. Also specifically when i am downloading, the whole process will get killed. Any ideas?

That is the program I am looking for, but I am trying to grab images off a WPA network. Therefore I can decrypt the packets, but then when i feed it into chaos reader, it outputs nothing... im...

My web server is talking to consecutive ports in the range 1600:
Starts at 1635 and goes up.
Anyone know why this would happen? Is this an attempt to remain stealthy by communicating off different...

If you capture packets using wireshark that contain image files, how do you go about exporting the binary to reassemble into an image?

The problem is you specifically cannot be a root user to run the initdb command.
Never mind... just gave up on postgres and went to sqlite.
still didnt solve the problem though.

I have read the tutorials on autopwn. yes i correctly installed the rubygem, activerecord, postgres and even sqlite3 too. however when i try to create a new database...
initdb ~/metasploitdb
i get...

I have tried creating a user and then "su"ing into root using toor.
however it says sorry and doesnt work. So I opened up root shell and changed the password to toor just to make sure. I "su"ed...

I appended the line bt3 from=/dev/sdb1
and my files are in sdb1
however all this line does is give me another line saying 'wait a while'
and then it hangs like it used to for 5 min. anyone know a...

I have a problem, If i go to wireless assistant, I can see AP's, however when i run iwconfig -a, it shows nothing.