The following article on SecurityFocus teaches you how to perform a basic forensic analysis of web-browsers and find the information they cache about our surfing habits.
Article Part 1: Web Browser Forensics, Part 1
Article Part 2: Web Browser Forensics, Part 2
– Suramya
Hi Everyone,
As some of you probably have noticed I havn’t been posting stuff on my blog for the past few weeks. It has been a crazy couple of weeks and I blame: Lazyness -> Lack of time -> Lack of sleep (In that order) for the delay in posting stuff on the site.
Site Update:
Site is back to normal. Working on the new versions of the various scripts I wrote (IM2Email, Collage Generator) and should have the new versions up soon.
Life Update:
These past few weeks have been especially good as I have gotten back in touch with friends I hadn’t talked to in over 5-7 years. first I met-up with Karishma (We were in 11th & 12th together) for lunch 2 weeks ago as she is also working in NY right now. The funny part was that we have both been in NY or the tristate area for the past 2 years(5 years for me) but neither of us knew about the other person being in NY. We had a awesome time catching up with each other’s lives. I did take a camera with me to the meeting but got so caught up in talking that forgot to take any pics. 🙁
The got in touch with Shashank (we were in 9th and 10th grade together) on Yahoo Messenger. It was nice chatting with him after such a long time. Wish I could have met him Face 2 face also but he is in India right now so unfortunately that isn’t possible right now.
Weekend Update (7th May – 8th May):
Drove to DC for Ruth’s graduation. Me and Vivek left NY at 3:45 am on Sunday and got to DC at 7:15 am after driving nonstop the entire way. Attended the graduation, had lunch roamed the city, had dinner and slept for a few hours and then left from DC at 4:00 am to arrive in NY at 7:30 am. Unfortunately both of us had work so we left for work almost immediately. (I will post a more detailed version of the trip in the Photogallery when I post the graduation pics)
As you can guess a lot more happened during this time but I don’t feel like typing it all out. If you are very curious email me and I might tell you about it.
– Suramya
Hi Everyone,
Just finished writing a new article on How to Install Debian from Scratch and have posted it in the Linux Tutorial’s section of the site. Debian From Scratch (DFS) is a special version of Debian which gives the user complete control over what software is installed and where it is installed. Think of it as Linux From Scratch install but with the Debian advantages (Ease of maintainence, installation etc).
Since DFS give so much control over what is installed where on the system its esp suited for servers as there are no unwanted programs installed which in turn makes it easier to harden the server
Check out the article and let me know what you think.
– Suramya
Tools that will display group and user permissions on a set of folder:
– Suramya
ilovejackdaniels.com has shared this really neat CSS cheat sheet shown below.
Thanks for shaing guys 
CSS Cheat Sheet:
– Suramya
These programs will generate a per protocol/port bandwidth usage information on a given server:
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Use a program called script, it makes a typescript of terminal session, meaning it logs everything printed on your terminal. Use `man script` to get more information about it.
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These tools will help you identify which programs are opening what ports on the system.
1. lsof | grep ‘IPv.’
lsof shows the list of open files, piping it through grep and searching for IPv will give you a list of ports used by a program
lsof -i TCP:<PORT>
where PORT is the one you need to know about the program behind it.
2. netstat -anp
Should display open ports, machines connected to the ports as well as which application has that port open.
If you know of any other ways let me know.
– Suramya
The following commands will list all suid files on a linux system:
Method 1:
find / -perm +ugo=s
Method 2:
find / -perm +4000
Method 3:
/usr/bin/find / -type f \( -perm -004000 -o -perm -002000 \) -exec ls -lg {} \; 2>/dev/null >suidfiles.txt
– Suramya
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