VMware Tools & SIDEBYSIDE Event ID 33

On a few VM's the VMware tools didn't work. After starting the service, I got an error. This is the error in the Event Viewer:

Activation context generation failed for “C:\Program Files\VMWareTools\plugins\vmusr\vmtray.dll”. Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.MFC,processorArchitecture=”amd64″,publicKeyToken=”1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”,type=”win32″,version=”9.0.30729.4148″ could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.

The solution:

Install: 

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable – x86 9.0.30729.4148 (32bits)

or

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable – x64 9.0.30729.6161 (64bits)

For more useful information check this website:

http://vpxa.info/index.php/2016/02/16/vmware-tools-10-0-5-3227872-sydebyside-event-id-33/

WSUS error: Classic,Audit Failure 12-10-2016 08:03:39 MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID 18456 Logon

I could not start the WSUS management console due to a connection error on the Windows 2012 R2 server. In the Event Viewer I found this error:


Classic,Audit Failure 12-10-2016 08:03:39 MSSQL$MICROSOFT##WID 18456 Logon


More details:


EventID:18456


Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database 'SUSDB'. [CLIENT: <named pipe>]

Solution:


Do not uninstall any Windows Updates, but try this first:

1. Open an elevated Command Prompt and run "C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools\wsusutil.exe" postinstall /servicing
2. Enable HTTP Activation under .NET Framework 4.5 Features in the Server Manager Add Roles and Features Wizard
3. Restart the WSUS service

This solved my problem.

Kali on a Raspberry Pi - Part 4 - Installing FruityWifi

The next step is to install FruityWifi

apt-get install fruitywifi
/etc/init.d/fruitywifi start
/etc/init.d/php5-fpm start

Go to http://<IP-address>:8000 (for http)
Go to https://<IP-address>:8443 (for https)

user: admin
pass: admin

Note: installing fruitywifi will install all modules. If you want to install only some modules, you can install fruitywifi-core first and then each module, for example fruitywifi-module-dnsspoof.

Now FruitWifi is ready to use.

Stealing creds from a locked PC using a Hak5 LAN Turtle

Interesting hack explained on Youtube by Hak5:

Stealing creds from a locked PC using a Hak5 LAN Turtle, plus Mubix joins us! This time on Hak5!

The original article can be found at this website::
https://room362.com/ – Mubix’s Site

More links:
https://hashcat.net/hashcat/ – Hashcat
https://crack.sh/ – Crack.sh
https://youtu.be/Vsc-SA0g5Fo – Hak5’s PWM with an Arduino and a Rainbow LED Board

Source:
https://www.hak5.org/episodes/season-21/snagging-creds-from-locked-machines-with-a-lan-turtle-hak5-2104

Kali on a Raspberry Pi - Part 3 - Connect to wifi from command line in Kali Linux and update Kali.

Because the command-line is the only available option to use, I needed to know how to connect to a
Wi-Fi network on the command-line. I found this article:

https://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/09/18/connect-to-wifi-network-from-command-line-in-linux/

Before I could start with this tutorial, I connected an additional USB Wi-Fi dongle to the Raspberry Pi and used it to connect to my private Wi-Fi.

After I had a working internet connection, I started on the command-line the update process of Kali to get the latest version:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
reboot

This takes a while, so be patient. :-)

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Kali on a Raspberry Pi - Part 2 - Enable management with WiFi.

First I had to connected a power adapter, keyboard, mouse and display to the Raspberry Pi.

The next step was to connect my internet router to the Raspberry Pi with an UTP cable.

I used this tutorial to create an access-point on the Raspberry Pi 3:

USING YOUR NEW RASPBERRY PI 3 AS A WIFI ACCESS POINT WITH HOSTAPD
https://frillip.com/using-your-raspberry-pi-3-as-a-wifi-access-point-with-hostapd/

Of course you can choose you own SSID settings and WPA key.

When you are ready, you can check the connection with you laptop, PC or other mobile device.

If you can connect to the wireless network, then you can disconnect al the input and output devices.

Now you can use a SSH client to connect to the Raspberry Pi.

I used Putty for this task: http://www.putty.org/

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Kali on a Raspberry Pi - Part 1 -The start of my project.

After testing Kali on my laptop with Oracle VM VirtualBox, I decided to test Kali on a Raspberry Pi. After checking the various models, I decided to buy the Raspberry Pi 3. The fastest model with Wifi. 

The next step was to start on this page:
http://docs.kali.org/kali-on-arm/install-kali-linux-arm-raspberry-pi

After I downloaded the image, I used this program to write the image to the micro SD memorycard:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

The next step was:

Changing the SSH host keys can be accomplished by doing the following:

root@kali:~ rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
root@kali:~ dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
root@kali:~ service ssh restart

The next step was to create a management connection to the Raspberry Pi without the need for a monitor and keyboard. Read about it in my next post.

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