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Monday, May 30, 2016

New Defrag Tool videos – does the fun never stop?!!!

Now that we are getting near the summer TV re-run doldrums, maybe now is a good time to start Chromecasting some technical videos.

Defrag Tools – Microsoft Channel 9

Media eXperience Analyzer – Microsoft Download Center

Cheers,

Claus Valca

Ongoing consumer product security issues

Note: most of this is “old news” now. Posted for posterity.

Bring Your Own Dilemma: OEM Laptops and Windows 10 - Blog: Duo Security
Zombie Crapware: How the Windows Platform Binary Table Works – How To Geek blog
Lenovo issues BIOS updates to fix security vulnerability – BetaNews
Microsoft Removes Trust for eDellroot Certificates – ThreatPost blog
Microsoft moves to blacklist Dell's root certificates in its Untrusted CTL – HA blog (via Internet Archive)
FreeSmartSoft products still hiding an uninstallable 'back door' – BetaNews
Security Paper suggests to remove McAfee from PCs, finds issues in OEM devices - gHacks Tech News
Mousejacking: What you need to know – Naked Security
Mousejack Attacks Abuse Vulnerable Wireless Keyboard, Mouse Dongles – Threatpost
Logitech Response to Unifying Receiver Research Findings - Logitech Forums

If you do use a Logitech wirless mouse/keyboard with a Unifying receiver, follow that last link above to install the new Unifying Software package, then do a firmware update on the device. Now would be a good time to check and upgrade your SetPoint software as well. GSD tip here.

…moving on…

Claus Valca

Network Link Roundup

And yet another pile of URL web-linkage. This collection focuses on network techniques, tools, and software releases.

Grab a fork and dig in!

Let me tell you about Wireshark 2.0 - Sniff free or die
Wireshark 2.0 - Top 10 Filters (by Chris Greer) – LoveMyTool
Wireshark 2.0 Statistics Endpoint Report (by Tony Fortunato) – LoveMyTool
Wireshark Use Case: Slow Response Times - Part 2 (by Paul Offord) – LoveMyTool
Wireshark Use Case: Slow Response Times - Part 3 (by Paul Offord) – LoveMyTool
How to Detect a Worm with a Network Anayzer (by Nancy Liu) – LoveMyTool
Announcing Microsoft Message Analyzer 1.4 - Microsoft Message Analyzer
Selection Tool Window – Microsoft Message Analyzer
Message Analyzer Videos – Two More - Microsoft Message Analyzer
YouTube Message Analyzer channel
Message Analyzer Blog
Packet Sniffing with PowerShell: Looking at Messages - Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
Packet Sniffing with PowerShell: Getting Started - Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
Use PowerShell to Parse Network Trace Logs—The Video - Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog
EMCO Ping Monitor – A sophisticated uptime monitoring tool - 4sysops
BPF is your Friend - NETRESEC Blog
NetworkMiner 2.0 Released - NETRESEC Blog
Detecting Periodic Flows with CapLoader 1.4 - NETRESEC Blog
Analyzing Web Browsing Activity - NETRESEC Blog
clumsy 0.2 – utility for simulating broken network for Windows Vista / Windows 7 and above

Clumsy makes your Windows network conditions worse, on purpose - gHacks Tech News

NetSpot - free WiFi Site Survey Software for MAC OS X & Windows

NetSpot 1.0 Wi-Fi analyzer and troubleshooting tool launches on Windows – BetaNews
Create detailed Wi-Fi Surveys with NetSpot for Windows - gHacks Tech News
Download NetSpot for Windows – NetSpot
HeatMapper - Free Wi-Fi coverage mapping software for homes and small offices.
NetSurveyor - 802.11 Network Discovery Tool
Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector
inSSIDer 3.1.2.1 - Download - FileCroco.com – link to one of the last “free” versions of inSSIDer
Mostly Wi-Fi and Network Security: Linkfest – GSD blog post

toolsmith #114: WireEdit and Deep Packet Modification – HolisticInfoSec

WireEdit - A Full Stack WYSIWYG Packet Editor for Pcap.
TraceWrangler – Jasper’s awesome tool that can also do sanitization and anonymization of PCAP and PCAPng files

Sanitized IEEE OUI Data (oui.txt) – linuxnet.ca – when you need a cleaned up version of oui.txt
What SSL or TLS level are you using? – Soussan DAS Computer Consultants post
Colasoft – collection of their freeware network utilities.
HostedNetworkStarter – NirSoft – ad-hoc Wifi Hotspot Creator for Windows 10/8/7

HostedNetworkStarter: turn your PC into a WiFi Hotspot - gHacks Tech News
New utility to easily start a wifi hotspot on Windows 10/8/7 – NirBlog

The Ars guide to building a Linux router from scratch - Ars Technica
A Bettercap Primer – Daniel Miessler
Performing network forensics with Dshell. Part 1: Basic usage - InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog
Tcproute - MoonPoint Support Weblog
How to identify and prevent programs from phoning home - gHacks Tech News
Use Fiddler to determine which connections Windows 10 establishes automatically - gHacks Tech News
Sniffing encrypted traffic – Tinyapps.org

NetRipper

Pi-Hole: Standalone Raspberry Pi Ad-blocker – I smell a new Raspberry Pi project coming on!

Cheers.

Claus Valca

Windows Task Manager Alternatives

Not sure what got me started on this collection of links.

The stock Task Manager application on Windows isn’t that bad in Windows 7 and gets even better in Windows 8/8.1/10.

However, sometimes you really need something with a bit more lifting power when you are working on Windows system to review and dive into the running processes.

I use Microsoft Sysinternals Process Explorer as my EDC utility. I’ve yet to find a product to beat the overall feaures it brings.

Process Explorer: an introduction - Malwarebytes Labs
Process Explorer: part 2 - Malwarebytes Labs
Defrag Tools: #2 - Process Explorer - Defrag Tools | Channel 9
Utilizing SysInternals Tools for Windows Client: (03) ProcessExplorer - Utilizing SysInternals Tools for Windows Client | Channel 9

However, there are a number of other utilities I like to keep handy just in case I need a different view.

System Explorer – Mister Group
Process Hacker – Wen Jia Liu
Yet Another Process Monitor (YAPM) – Not updated in quite some time but still nice with a ribbon like interface.
DBC Task Manager – Presents a more Windows 8/8.1 type task manager view on Windows 7 systems.
ArcadeRenegade/SidebarDiagnostics – Not really a task-manager but does provide key system information in a sidebar format. Good for displaying hardware diagnostic information off to the side while troubleshooting a system.
MiTeC Task Manager DeLuxe – MiTeC – Lots of detailed information in a handy tabbed window format

Cheers.

Claus Valca