Ahmed El Gamil

الحمد لله و كفى و صلاة و سلاماً على عباده الذين اصطفى

EDIT: Added the solution at the end of the post

So i have been navigating through my home directory and i found a hidden directory (which starts with a dot .) and i found a directory called .purple..Hmm, i don’t remember installing an application called purple..

So after some searching i found that the .purple directory contains some files related to pidgin The universal Instant messaging client..okay this sounds reasonable now..the pidgin color is purple

okay..before you read any further in this topic please open a terminal in your Linux distro and execute the following command:

cat ~/.purple/acc* | grep “ord>”

YES, the output you have seen from this command is REAL !! ..It is your IM passwords Read more…

Google just released an updated version of the Google Mobile App, but now with Voice search !

You just say the keywords in your voice and the app does all the work

The new Google Mobile App for iPhone makes it possible for you to do a Google web search using only your voice. Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you’re looking for. That’s it. Just talk. Once the App is on, you don’t have to push any buttons to search. Check out the video below to watch engineer Mike LeBeau explain how this works.

Here is a video from youtube that explains it very well:

Read more…

So i have been working with a small personal coding project the last days, and i noticed that i will be distributing the code among several directories and files and i also need to go forward and backward in the code revisions, so i decided to get started with Subversion – The version control system.

I had some problems at first, then things started to get really good after some searching for information here and there, so here is a simple tutorial that will get you up with subversion in no time isA

First of all, What is Version control ?

Revision control (also known as version control (system) (VCS), source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information

Changes to these documents are usually identified by incrementing an associated number or letter code, termed the “revision number”, “revision level”, or simply “revision” and associated historically with the person making the change

So how does this apply to coding and source code, well, when you are working with lots of code some times you need to know how did the code look like at a specific time or specific “version”. Read more…

الحمد لله و كفى و صلاةً و سلاماً على عباده الذين اصطفى..ثم أما بعد

امبارح كان Hackers Day رقم 2 و الحمد لله كان كويس جداً
 و كل الsession اللى فيه كانت قوية جداً و مفيدة..

انا اديت فيه سيشن بعنوان

"Hacking Wireless Networks: A live demo"

عموماً..بدايتى مع ال wireless networking مكملتش 8 شهور

إلا انى من ساعة مع كان لى نصيب انى اتعامل

wireless router

 و الموضوع كان شاددنى جداً

أتمنى انى اكون قدرت انفع الناس..

انا عارف ان كمية المعلومات كانت تقيلة و انا كنت بتكلم بسرعة حبتين  

ده غير كمية المصطلحات الانجليزى الفظيعة اللى قلتها  

أهم حاجة بس تفتكرها ان أقوى طريقة عشان تحمى بيها أى نظم بتستخدمها

هى انك تهاك على نفسك :mrgreen:

Secure your wireless Network Using offensive security

اوعى تستخدم WEP Encryption

و علشان تحمى ال Access Point بتاعتك استعمل WPA/WPA2

و أختار password متكونش dictionary word يعنى مثلاً

a-vk, 3wq5

بالنسبة للpresentation هتلاقوها هنا

  هبقا هعدل التدوينة دى عشان احط قائمة بالكتب اللى قرأتها فى الموضوع ده

سبحانك اللهم و بحمدك..أشهد أن لا إلا أنت..أستغفرك و أتوب اليك

During this summer vacation, i had a lot of stuff to concentrate on and increase my knowledge in..one of them was penetration testing, and after some deep thinking, i think that my future dream job now is to open a firm specialized in penetrarion testing which is a service that i don’t think we have here in egypt (and may be companies are not interested too much in the security systems of their organizations !)..

Anyway, so in order to be a professional penetration tester, you have to be knowledgable in the 2 portions of the game..the security game

1. Defensive Security: and this is the field of studies of most of the people out there studying security where they learn techniques that helps them to “protect” their networks and systems.
2. Offensive Security: where you can learn how the real Hackers and Crackers work, where you do the exact kind of attacks that any intruder will think of when trying to penetrate your network ,the bottom line is “think like them so you can defeat them”. Read more…