Snort IDS and Honeyd on Windows XP and 2003

Lately I have been working on snort IDS for windows. As per requirements to test it in windows, finally got hands on WinIDS. Though there is pre packaged solution on snort IDs with its graphical reporting snorby in Security Onion built in Ubuntu Iso, the preference were given to step by step built up and in windows. WinIds was great. But at last gave the Barnyard error in Windows XP. However such error was not present in windows server 2003. The error was while running barnyard in cmd prompt, it just did not want to run. Next thing I tried to run apache and mysql server that of xampp but just can't. So without further delay just installed fresh apache and mysql. So everything went well on testing in windows server 2003 and made it ready for the deployment.
The next task was to run honeypot in windows. I chose honeyd for windows version. This particular was also incompatible with windows xp. "WinHoneyd is NOT compatible with Windows XP SP2. Microsoft recommended solution:server 2003" one of the experts says in "Experts Exchange". So in favor of server 2003, gave up for Windows XP. I will publish further results after testing.

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3G settings in Nepal Telecom (NTC) for Samsung Galaxy S III

3G settings in Nepal Telecom (NTC) for Samsung Galaxy S III

Samsung Galaxy S3 and another unkown android tablet already activated for NTC 3G were not able to connect to the internet via GPRS or 3G with the settings provided in the NTC site. The proxy settings whether correct or not gave the negative result and also the sms gprs for 1404 would not give the reply sms from the NTC as at the time of 12 - 2.30 PM yesterday. After playing for more than 1 hour the settings however worked for them. First the tablet was connected to the internet through 3G high speed then the S3. The APN setting I used was ntnet. APN name ntnet and APN ntnet. Nothing more than that. The mobile data and data roaming were turned on. After the restart of each device, I was able to browse the internet with the status H (which stands for HSDPA). I really want to note down this before I forget. For more information
http://nxwiki.blogspot.com/2012/07/android-apn-settings-step-by-step.html#.UN0LXDM4JaE
http://ntc.net.np/mobile/mob_3g.php
http://ntc.net.np/mobile/mob_gprsConfig.php
Other unsuccessful try were with the ntc APN and ntwap

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Recover saved password from browser

Recover saved password from browser

My opera 64bit browser eating up too much ram in my laptop more than 1 GB sometimes making my laptop cry too much with its fan. It would use up too much memory when I was using too many browsers and of course flash plugin may be its cause.

To reduce the noise I decided to install Opera 32bit instead. Installing 32bit Opera only was not enough for me, I had to port all my saved passwords and bookmarks to the new opera.
I had protected my passwords with the master password. I tried to unlock the passwords from the browsers but in vain. So I went for 3rd party tools OperaPassView from nirsoft http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/opera_password_recovery.html. It just showed me the username but not passwords. All the passwords had chinese letters embedded to it. I disabled the master password. However it did not solved my problem. Finally I got a solution which was easy to implement but raised an alarm. Are my passwords really safe with the browsers? Here is the solution.

It works withe opera, chrome and firefox. With the password saved page, click on auto login, as soon as it loads stop the browser from further going in. Then over the passwords right click on it and click on Inspect Element.

Now change the highlighted password field in the code box to "text" or "view" or any other word other than password. The saved password will be visible.

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Updates in Messengers

Microsoft is dropping windows live messenger in favor of Skype, while Yahoo has decided to disable some features from its browsers by December 14. Yahoo and Windows live contacts will no longer be able to chat with each other and the yahoo chat rooms will be disabled. For complete list of disabled features of Yahoo messenger has been listed in yahoo . http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2012/11/30/updates-to-yahoo-messenger-features

Meanwhile I was searching for the yahoo mail notifier. I had forgotten that the yahoo messenger by default does this. So signing with yahoo messenger in the desktop and running it in background.

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Download Chanakya font

Download Chanakya font

Font Chanakya.ttf is still being used a lot and is in great demand. The font is used in online edition of newspaper Annapurna Post. Without the font the online edition is unreadable.
Annapura Post Online Edition without Chanakya Font
Annapurna Post Online Edition after installing font
Download Chanakya Font
Download Preeti Font
Download kantipur Font
Download more Nepali Fonts here
http://www.nepali.info/nepali/fonts/
http://lalitkala.deviantart.com/art/Ananda-Nepali-Fonts-Collection-309919915
http://www.anandakm.com.np
http://www.kgshrestha.com.np/nepalifonts.php

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Importing contacts in Nokia 6020

Importing contacts in Nokia 6020

Nokia 6020 when bought 10 years back cost me about 12k and was great at that time with the built-in camera, infrared and most of them the joystick made it very comfortable to use. It was my first mobile that could connect with the computer. It had data cable DKU-5 for the data transfer between the PC and mobile. It's still in use and my mom uses it. Though it lacks the Nepali fonts for her, she uses contacts photo list to dial us and relatives. It is just that great and no other phones had been used so long without problem. The problem with it was, it was dead one day and brother had it fixed with the new T mobile Symbian OS. Everything was fine unless one day most of the contacts were deleted by one of my kids while playing with it.
So I thought of restoring the contacts from my mobile to it. So my first task was getting the contacts from outlook 2010 to the format that Nokia supports, which was of course .vcf file.

Exporting the outlook 2010 contacts to vcard files (.vcf)
Method No. 1

1. Create a new email message


2. Click on Attach Item > Business Card > Other Business Cards


3. Select the contact(s)


4. The contact(s) will be attached. Select the contact(s) in vcf extensions; drag and drop to the folder or Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) to the desired folder.

Method No. 2

1. Go to contacts section in outlook


2. Select the contact(s) to export. Click on Forward contact drop down icon > As a Business Card. By default on clicking forward contact the contacts will be attached in .msg files (Outlook Contact). So we need to click on drop down icon in it to select Business Card
   


3. The contact(s) will be attached. Select the contact(s) in vcf extensions; drag and drop to the folder or Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) to the desired folder.

Now the contacts were ready to be imported to the mobile.

Importing the contacts to Nokia 6020

The mobile was then connected with the computer with the cable so called DKU-5 or CA-42 (Whatever it may be) as I had connected previously but the different PC. The driver was installed and Nokia PC suite installed and updated. But whenever the mobile was connected it said Data Enhancement Connected and then again Enhancement not Supported. So I decided to go for IrDA connection. Then the old Dell Latitude C640 was powered on. Infrared had been disabled in it. So it was enabled from the BIOS settings. The Infrared settings was enabled in the Mobile and then placed near the Infrared reception of the laptop, a shortcut icon on the desktop was created enabling the data exchange between the devices.

Before I finally got the Infrared working on the laptop I downloaded the Infrared driver for it, since it was only disabled from the BIOS the driver was not needed. However the link for the driver is  http://drp.su/drivers/notebooks/?v=Dell&m=Latitude%20C640&id=767&l=en, just in case I format the laptop again.

References:

http://www.technipages.com/outlook-2010-export-all-contacts-to-vcard-files.html

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/send-and-save-contacts-as-vcards-vcf-files-HA010243189.aspx

http://drp.su/drivers/notebooks/?v=Dell&m=Latitude%20C640&id=767&l=en

http://manage-this.com/backup-outlook-contacts-to-vcard-3-easy-steps/

http://www.fundubytes.com/access-internet-with-nokia-6020dku-5/

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/import-read-vcf-file-44743.html

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Kanhe Maichha

कान्हि मैचा मंसिर महिनासँ,
चुरा व सचिका ज्वना
का वय् त्यल न्हा
का वय् त्यल न्हा

वा दाईचा मंसिर महिनासँ,
जिगु थ्व ब्‌छि जोबन
छंगु लागि न्हा
छंगु लागि न्हा

म्हगसे न छं हे जक
मिखा पिक: वैगु जित

मिखा कना च्वन धासा
न्हिला न्हिला क्यनि जित

छ बिना च्वनेहे मफुत
सुईगु भरे च्वने दाईचा
याकन हे वा दाईचा
याकन हे वा

छँगु मन जिगु मन,
झंग ब्वथेँ ब्वया च्वन
छँगु दुख: जिगु दुख:,
छगु हे थेँ जुया च्वन

छ मदेक जिँ न मफुत
याकन हे का व्य् मैचा,
धैर्य याना च्वँ मैचा,
धैर्य याना च्वँ

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