Denial of Service using Partial GET Request in Mozilla Firefox 3.06

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

The Partial GET Request (HTTP 206 Status Code) of a WAV file results in a Denial of Service of the application.Last HTTP packet from Firefox before the DoS is listed below in RAW format:GET /fpaudio/footprints_waves.wav HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* User-Agent: NSPlayer/11.0.6001.7001 WMFSDK/11.0 UA-CPU: x86 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Range: bytes=34848- Unless-Modified-Since: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:44:57 GMT If-Range: "4f0018-440f2-434d403204440" Host: ...

BackTrack 4 Beta Released

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

This is it!  After many months of effort from the Remote Exploit Dev team, BackTrack 4 Beta is ready and available.  I thought I'd post up some "getting started" notes, to help people out with the first surge of questions.Default password to BackTrack 4 hasn't changed, still root / toor. KDE ...

Install TweetDeck In Ubuntu

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.To install this in Ubuntu, follow the below steps:Go here ...

Firefox Tweaks To Double Your Browsing Speed

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

By tweaking the way Firefox handles some caching functions, you can dramatically improve page load speed and even prevent Firefox from hogging your system resources while minimized. If you don’t currently have any experience playing with your configuration file, don’t be scared. Just follow the simple instructions, take your time ...

Clone Your VirtualBox Image

Monday, December 29th, 2008

I found out the hard way that you cannot simply copy and paste your .vdi file, rename, and add a second virtual machine to your system.  Each VDI file has a unique UUID that a single VirtualBox installation will not duplicate.  You have to "clone" it.  The screenshot below is ...