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VMWare ESXi 5 Auto Start/Shutdown

VMWare recently, (and quietly) published a patch I have confirmed will resolve a guest virtual machine startup and shutdown issue that was introduced in March 2012 when they released Update 1. The issue was that it broke the automatic startup and shutdown of the guest virtual machines when the host machine boots or shuts down. […]

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Facebook Security: An Old Phishing Trick, Revived & Analyzed.

In the past, you may remember that I’ve written about many instances where Facebook users were falling for a trick where a link get’s posted on their wall asking them to click a fake link in order to gain access so some “cool” feature such as getting a free iPad, gaining access and see other […]

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Enabling Smartcard Logon for Active Directory

Since I couldn’t find an all-in-one guide anywhere out there, I’m going to write up a short post on how to enable smart card logon in a Microsoft Active Directory environment. It’s short since I’m a little bit lazy in documenting every step (these are mainly notes for myself), but if enough people request, I’ll […]

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Stolen Facebook Accounts

You remember about all those scams I was posting about? (Then stopped posting about since I got lazy). Now there’s a new discovery: A Russian hacker who says he’s in New Zealand is selling the username & passwords of Facebook accounts ranging from $35 to $65, depending on how many friends each account has. He […]

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Atheros AR9170 & BackTrack 4

I recently broke out my Netgear WNDA3100 adapter that I bought a while ago to replace my old Netgear WG111 that I used to use for cracking wireless networks. Granted, the WG111 was reliable, but the reasons for the replacement are obvious: the WNDA3100 is dual-band and supports 802.11n. But for beginners who don’t want […]