If you like this, you can use flattr. ;)
- Quickpost: Inspiring Windows software profilers and checkers
- 0x41 - back to bugs
- low footprint/hardware assisted virtualization with Linux and GrSec
- Postfix troubleshooting - a security nightmare
- New content soon
- 0x41 - (weekly) exploitation matters - Vista Heap, scripting debuggers with debug libs and how to learn to use that knowledge
- 0x41 - weekly exploitation matters - Shellcode and frameworks
- Explicit and implicit security in software development - measures and change
- 0x41 - weekly exploitation matters - Heap overflow fundamentals
- 0x41 - weekly exploitation matters - About
- wishinet: http://www.godblock.com/#what "block sexual, and psychologically harmful material" like "holy texts". Protect "from being indoctrinated"
- wishinet: Load average: 23.69 20.11 14.95 - jepp, this is obviously bad.
- wishinet: http://img2.moonbuggy.org/imgstore/ethernet-killer.jpg
- wishinet: According to my 400d stats the most viewed page at my blog is phpids's xss warning. You can do better! :)
- wishinet: I'm super-hungry after some meditation... guess this isn't normal. :-) 0xf000000d
UnprotectedHex - about formal software verification
Sean's blog
Xecurity - a security feed collecter
Reddit RCE group
Freedom To Tinker
Emergent Chaos
Woodmann RCE forums
OpenRCE community forums
SecViz - security data visualization
DAVIX Live - for security metrics
Hex Live
Security Metrics
Immunity's Free Software
Core Security's OpenSouce research
Zynamics Blog
De-Cygwinize Win
Sat, 12/05/2009 - 15:15 | wishi
txtNo more emulation
When it comes to the commandline administrators all over the Windows worlds nowadays think of Cygwin or Powershell. However Cygwin is a special layered environment and Powershell is .Net dependant and not very reactive.
Therefore I tend to turn back to the good old DOS-like commandline and add some stuff to the environment path in order to ease my life. However many people may think that extending your commandline tools doesn't help you in situations where you don't find these tools: on Windows the commandline is just an extra. The following stuff of course doesn't help you to do post-exploitation or to show of at your friends machine. But it helps to save time. My time ;).
UnixUtils
The extremely simple variant.
The UnixUtils pack consists of native Win32 utilities that behave like Unix pendants. You get ls, wget, rm and all that nice stuff without any emulation layer. In case of Powershell the cmdlets are prioritised. That means even if there's ls.exe in your PATH next to your ls cmdlet, the cmdlet will be called if you type ls into the prompt.
Freeware stuff
There's some neat Freeware worth mentioning. NirCmd. It allows you to change the volume, do every-day tasks, script them, and much more. Very essential and very a fast way to manage your system - if you're familiar with it.
Another recommendation btw. is HeapMemView. You should check out all the tools.
Make sure you take a look at the Windows Resource Kits, the PowerShell pack for example.
I'm not a great fan of Microsoft's POSIX compliance extensions "Windows Services For Unix", but these exist, too.
And now write your scripts.
Have fun,
wishi
Tags: 
Post new comment