[Video] This is China

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Firefox 48.0 Does Not Vulnerable To Reverse Tabnabbing

What is Tabnabbing?

According to Wikipedia, Tabnabbing is a computer exploit and phishing attack, which persuades users to submit their login details and passwords to popular websites by impersonating those sites and convincing the user that the site is genuine.

The attack's name was coined in early 2010 by Aza Raskin, a security researcher and design expert. The attack takes advantage of user trust and inattention to detail in regard to tabs, and the ability of modern web pages to rewrite tabs and their contents a long time after the page is loaded.

Tabnabbing operates in reverse of most phishing attacks in that it doesn’t ask users to click on an obfuscated link but instead loads a fake page in one of the open tabs in your browser.

What's New?

Recently, security researcher(s) find a new attack vector. A lot of websites are coding their links with target="_blank" and attackers can use of this vulnerability to attack clients browser.

How to avoid from that?

If you are website administrators or developers, please correct all the code from :

target="_blank"

to :

target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"

If you are users/clients, you need to use a not vulnerability browser such as Firefox 34.0 or higher.

I tested Edge, Chrome, Safari and Firefox on Android, Linux, iOS, Windows and Mac OSX. I got the following result.

Vulnerable -
Safari for Mac OSX 9.1.3 (11601.7.8)
Safari for iOS (iPad) 9.3.5
Safari for iOS (iPhone) 9.3.5
Android Browser 42.0.2311.1179 (Default browser for OnePlus One 6.0.1)
Chrome for Mac OSX 53.0.2785.101
Chrome for Android 52.0.2743.98 (Default browser of Nexus 5 6.0.1)
Chrome for Android 53.0.2785.97
Chrome for iOS (iPad) 53.0.2785.86
Firefox for iOS (iPad) 5.2 (1)*

Not Vulnerable -
Firefox for Android 48.0
Firefox for Linux 48.0
Firefox ESR for Linux 45.3.0
Firefox for Mac OSX 48.0
Edge for Windows 25.10586.0.0

Please note that Google will not fix this "vulnerability" on Chrome, please see their explanation here.

*Another thing you may note that Firefox for iOS is also vulnerable. Meanwhile, Chrome for Linux is not tested.

How do I test my browsers?

Please go to Blankshield & Reverse Tabnabbing Attacks Demo Page. If you see the following message on the first line, your browser is not vulnerable. Otherwise, your browser is vulnerable to this attack.

"You are not using a vulnerable browser."

If your browser is vulnerable to this attack, the page should be looking like this.

Demo Video

Reference

(1) https://github.com/danielstjules/blankshield
(2) https://danielstjules.github.io/blankshield/
(3) http://news.softpedia.com/news/adding-target-blank-to-your-links-opens-the-door-for-phishing-attacks-507851.shtml
(4) https://sites.google.com/site/bughunteruniversity/nonvuln/phishing-with-window-opener
(5) http://davidebove.com/blog/2016/05/05/target_blank-the-vulnerability-in-your-browser/
(6) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabnabbing

That's why I love Firefox so much!

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HOWTO : Oracle Ksplice on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Oracle Ksplice provides kernel updates on Ubuntu and Fedora Linux without reboots free of charge. Ksplice is working properly on Desktop and Server versions as it has graphic and command line interfaces.

This guide shows you how to install Ksplice on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Desktop or Server version)

Step 1 :

sudo apt-get install libgtk2-perl consolekit iproute libck-connector0 libcroco3 libglade2-0 libpam-ck-connector librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common python-cairo python-dbus python-gi python-glade2 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-pycurl python-yaml dbus-x11

Step 2 :

wget https://ksplice.oracle.com/uptrack/dist/xenial/ksplice-uptrack.deb

sudo dpkg -i ksplice-uptrack.deb

Step 3 :

sudo nano /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf

Change the following as is :

autoinstall = yes

Step 4 :

Usages on CLI :

sudo uptrack-upgrade -y

Reference

User Guide

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HOWTO : Hardening and Tuning Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

This guide will lead you to hardening and tuning your Ubuntu 16.04 in a few steps without any expense. As an Information Security Enthusiast, my Ubuntu box is setting up like the following and I use the box every day.

Kernel Hardening and Tuning

Make sure you enabled the "No Execute (NX)" or "Execute Disable (XD)" in the BIOS/UEFI.

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

To make it looks like the following :



To reload it :

sudo sysctl -p

ARP Spoofing

One of the common attacks is Man In The Middle attack. It can use with browser attack too. This guide will help to protect your Ubuntu from being spoofing. Meanwhile, make sure to set ARP related settings in your router if the feature is available. Most home routers have no such feature.

HOWTO : ArpON on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Anti-Malware

Most Linux users (including advanced users) misunderstand that Linux will never and impossible to infect with malware. However, it is not true. Almost all operating systems are facing to the threats.

HOWTO : ClamAV 0.99 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

This guide will lead you to set up ClamAV for "Scan On Access" instead of "Scan On Demand".

Storage Performance Tuning

(A) SSD

Verify TRIM is supported :

sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep TRIM

If the output is similar to the below which is supported :

* Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 1 block)

If you install your Ubuntu in LVM, the TRIM is usually enabled by default. You can confirm it :

cat /etc/lvm/lvm.conf | grep issue_discards

If the output is similar to the below which is enabled :

issue_discards = 1

Then set the following to "deadline" if it is not done yet.

cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

noop [deadline] cfq

If not, set it :

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Insert the following before "exit 0" :

echo 1024 > /sys/block/sda/queue/read_ahead_kb
echo 1024 > /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests
echo deadline > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

* make sure your device is sda (or sdb ...)

To reload it or reboot your system :

sudo /etc/rc.local

After that, you need to edit the partition table (/etc/fstab) :

To make it looks like the following :

/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root / ext4 noatime,nodiratime,norelatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

sudo mount -a
sudo mount -o remount /

If you have an error after running the captioned commands, DO NOT reboot your system. You should correct the typo before doing so; otherwise, you cannot boot to your system again.

You can add "scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1" to kernel parameter, such as "/etc/default/grub".

(B) Hard Drive

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

Insert the following before "exit 0" :

echo 1024 > /sys/block/sda/queue/read_ahead_kb
echo 1024 > /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests

* make sure your device is sda (or sdb ...)

To reload it or reboot your system :

sudo /etc/rc.local

After that, you need to edit the partition table (/etc/fstab) :

To make it looks like the following :

ext4 noatime,nodiratime,norelatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

sudo mount -a
sudo mount -o remount /

If you have an error after running the captioned commands, DO NOT reboot your system. You should correct the typo before doing so; otherwise, you cannot boot to your system again.

Firefox Hardening and Tuning

Most malicious attacks nowadays are via browsers. Therefore, we need to protect ourselves even we are using Linux.

(A) Apparmor For Firefox

AppArmor is a Linux Security Module implementation of name-based access controls.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apparmor-utils apparmor-profiles

sudo nano /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox

To make it looks like the following and it is compatible to Firefox 51.0.1 or later :



sudo rm /etc/apparmor.d/disable/usr.bin.firefox

Reload the rules :

sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox

(B) Firefox Add-ons

NoScript

Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

* You are not required to enable it as it will block the javascript that most modern websites are using. You need to disable it globally to make the XSS attack protection by default.

uBlock Origin (Optional)

Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. (Please refer to the official site for details)

WebRTC Control

Have control over WebRTC (disable or enable) and protect your IP address.

BetterPrivacy

Remove or manage a new and uncommon kind of cookies, better known as LSO's.The BetterPrivacy safeguard offers various ways to handle Flash-cookies set by Google, YouTube, Ebay and others...

HTTPS Everywhere

Encrypt the web! HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension to protect your communications by enabling HTTPS encryption automatically on sites that are known to support it, even when you type URLs or follow links that omit the https: prefix.

Speed Tweaks (SpeedyFox)

This extension provides a list to almost all the settings that you may need to alter in order to enhance Firefox's speed.

(C) Optional

(1) Firefox Add-ons :

User-Agent Switcher

The User Agent Switcher extension adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of a browser.

Youtube High Definition

YouTube High Definition is a powerful tool that will let you automatically play all YouTube videos in HD (High Definition), turn off annotations, change video player size, auto stop videos, auto mute videos, control embedded videos and much more.

Youtube Flash-Html5

Play YouTube Videos in Flash or HTML5 Player.

(2) Browse with "New Private Window" feature

Finally, you may consider to use Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS) to protect your network. My project "Almond Croissants" which is an IDPS that can deploy to your network (in front or/and behind the router). Or, you may also consider to use TOR to protect your privacy with my project "NightHawk".

Reference

WebRTC IPS

IP Leak

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HOWTO : ClamAV 0.99 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is a free and open-source, cross-platform antivirus software tool-kit able to detect many types of malicious software, including viruses.

This guide will lead you to set up ClamAV for "Scan On Access" instead of "Scan On Demand". It is also target to Desktop usage only.

The current version at this writing is ClamAV 0.99.

Step 1 :

sudo apt-get install clamav clamav-freshclam clamav-daemon libclamunrar7

Step 2 :

sudo nano /etc/clamav/clamd.conf

To make the entries looking like the following. Make sure to replace "samiux" with your username.


cd ~
mkdir quarantine

Step 3 :

sudo nano /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf

To make the entries looking like the following.



sudo systemctl enable clamav-daemon
sudo systemctl restart clamav-daemon
sudo freshclam

Remark :

Download or copy will not trigger the ClamAV scan but browsing or executing (or etc) will. If any malware or virus (no matter it is for Windows, Linux or Mac OSX) is detected, it will be moved to "quarantine" directory. You can also check the log at "/var/log/clamav/clamav.log". Be aware that ClamAV may produce a lot of false positive warning in Linux.

Testing :

You can install NO harm virus testing files for testing.

sudo apt-get install clamav-testfiles

The NO harm virus testing files are located at "/usr/share/clamav-testfiles".

Reference

AppArmor Wiki

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HOWTO : ArpON on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

ArpON (ARP handler inspection) is a portable handler daemon that make ARP protocol secure in order to avoid the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through ARP Spoofing, ARP Cache Poisoning or ARP Poison Routing (APR) attacks. It blocks also the derived attacks by it, which Sniffing, Hijacking, Injection, Filtering & co attacks for more complex derived attacks, as: DNS Spoofing, WEB Spoofing, Session Hijacking and SSL/TLS Hijacking & co attacks.

Step 1 :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install arpon

Step 2 :

sudo nano /etc/default/arpon

Uncomment the DARPI and RUN, makes sure it is looking as :

DAEMON_OPTS="-q -f /var/log/arpon/arpon.log -g -D"
RUN="yes"

Step 3 :

sudo systemctl enable arpon
sudo systemctl restart arpon

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VirtualBox 5.0.x Headless with PHPVirtualBox 5.0.x

VirtualBox is a virtual machine which can be running on desktop and server. We can running VirtualBox as server (Headless mode) with PHPVirtualBox as front end. PHPVirutalBox can be running with Apache flawlessly. However, I would like it to be running on Hiawatha. There is no database required for the Headless mode.

Part A - Hardware

Motherboard : ASRock Rack C2750D4I server board
CPU : Intel Atom C2750
RAM : 4 x 8GB (32GB) DDR3-1600
Hard Drive : 2 x Western Digital 4TB WD4000F9YZ

Western Digital 4TB WD4000F9YZ is not certified by ASRock, so, it cannot boot from SATA3 ports. The SATA2 ports are used in this case.

The performance of C2750 is similar to Xeon E3-1220L. Please the comparison page at here.

The power consumption of this setup is between 30W to 80W.

Make sure you have enabled "Virtualization" (VT-x) in the BIOS.

Part B - Software

Operating System : Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 LTS
Virtual Machine : VirtualBox 5.0.30
Front End : PHPVirtualBox 5.0.5
Web Server : Hiawatha
RAID : Software RAID 1

Part C - Installation

Part C.1 - Operating System and Software RAID 1 Installation

RAID 1 requires two hard drivers for the installation. When you are installing Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS, you are required to do the partitioning. Select "Automatically partitioning" for each drive. The partitions will be (1) 1MB for "biosgrub"; (2) Free Space for root directory; and (3) Free Space for SWAP.

Then select "Configure Software RAID" to configure the Software RAID 1 on Free Space for root directory and Free Space for SWAP partitions. Do not RAID the "biosgrub" partitions. Set the "Free Space for root directory" to be mount at "/" and use as "Ext4 jouraling file system". Set the "Free Space for SWAP" to be used as "SWAP".

Finally, you should select to install "OpenSSH" when asked.

After the installation, your box can be booted up as expected. You can check the status of Software RAID 1 by the following commands :

cat /proc/mdstat

mdadm --detail /dev/md0
mdadm --detail /dev/md1

Part C.2 - VirtualBox Installation

After the Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 LTS is installed, you can install VirtualBox on it.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vbox.list

Append the following line to it :

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib

Save it.

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dkms unzip
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.30/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.0.30-112061.vbox-extpack

sudo VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.0.30-112061.vbox-extpack

To uninstall Extension Pack :

sudo VBoxManage extpack uninstall "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"

Part C.3 - Hiawatha Web Server Installation

sudo apt-get install php-common php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-imap php7.0-intl php7.0-json php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-readline php7.0-xml php7.0-zip php7.0-pgsql php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-fpm php-apcu mysql-server mysql-client php7.0-cgi apache2-utils php7.0-soap

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev libssl-dev dpkg-dev debhelper fakeroot libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.6/cmake-3.6.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf cmake-3.6.2.tar.gz
cd cmake-3.6.2
./configure
make
sudo make install

wget http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/files/hiawatha-10.4.tar.gz
tar -xzvf hiawatha-10.4.tar.gz
cd hiawatha-10.4/extra
./make_debian_package
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i hiawatha_10.4_amd64.deb

sudo systemctl enable hiawatha

sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini

Make changes as is.

zlib.output_compression = On
zlib.output_compression_level = 6
cgi.rfc2616_headers = 1

Append the following to the php-fpm.conf.

sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php-fpm.conf

[www]
user = www-data
group = www-data
listen.mode = 0666
listen = /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock
pm = static
pm.max_children = 100
chdir = /

sudo nano /etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf



sudo mkdir /etc/hiawatha/enable-sites
sudo mkdir /etc/hiawatha/disable-sites

sudo nano /etc/hiawatha/enable-sites/vbox.local



Make sure to change the "Hostname" to your IP address.

Part C.4 - PHPVirtualBox Installation

sudo adduser --ingroup vboxusers vbox

Enter password when prompted. Make sure you use a simple password as symbols do not accepted by VirtualBox.

wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox-5.0-5.zip?r=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fphpvirtualbox%2F&ts=1476606079&use_mirror=ncu" -O phpvirtualbox-5.0.5.zip
sudo unzip phpvirtualbox-5.0.5.zip -d /var/www/
sudo mv /var/www/phpvirtualbox-5.0.5/ /var/www/vbox
cd /var/www/vbox
sudo cp config.php-example config.php
sudo nano config.php

Change "$username" to "vbox" and "$password" to the password you just entered.

Change "$consoleHost" to your IP address, such as "192.168.1.120"

Uncoment (remove "#" in the front) "$enableAdvancedConfig = true;" and "$startStopConfig = true;"

sudo nano /etc/default/virtualbox

Append the following line to the empty file :

VBOXWEB_USER=vbox
VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1

sudo cp /var/www/vbox/vboxinit /etc/init.d/vboxinit
sudo update-rc.d vboxinit defaults

sudo systemctl enable vboxweb-service
sudo systemctl start vboxweb-service

Now, you can browse to http://[your-server-ip]/index.html, e.g. http://192.168.1.120/index.html.

Log in with "admin' as username and 'admin" as password.

You can copy the iso files to /home/samiux/iso for example by scp command.

Make sure you have installed "Guest Additions" to the all virtual desktop guests. Meanwhile, you need Flash to run the guest VNC.



If you want to browse with http://[your-server-ip]/ only, you need to do the following :

sudo cp /var/www/vbox/index.html /var/www/vbox/index.php

Troubleshooting

For phpvirtualbox login error when php7.0 is updated :

sudo /etc/init.d/php7.0-fpm restart

For phpvirtualbox guest vm showing "saved" or "poweroff" :

sudo systemctl restart vboxweb-service

Before upgrading VirtualBox, make sure all your virtual machines (guests) have been shut down. Then, stop the VirtualBox :

sudo systemctl stop vboxdrv
sudo systemctl stop vboxweb-service

If the Linux kernel is updated but the Virtualbox kernel module was not compiled by DRM properly, you need to run :

sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup

If you encountered "Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modulesError! Could not locate dkms.conf file." when upgrading, you need to delete the source file of previous version :

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/[previous version]

e.g. /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.0.28

dkms status

After that, run the following commands or reboot the box.

sudo systemctl start vboxdrv
sudo systemctl start vboxweb-service

Then, start all virtual machines in web interface.


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HOWTO : Cooler CPU on Kali Linux 2016.1

In general speaking, more powerful CPU generates more heat. However, cooler CPU may provide better performance in some situations. The following guide is for Kali Linux 2016.1 or Debian Linux.

Step 1 :

apt-get install linux-cpupower cpufrequtils thermald

Step 2 :

cpupower frequency-set -g powersave

Step 3 :

nano /etc/rc.local

Place the following line right before "exit 0".

cpupower frequency-set -g powersave

Remarks :

(1) To check the result :

watch -n 1 -d sensors

(2) To reset to "performance" or "ondemand", you just replace "powersave" to "performance" or "ondemand".

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HOWTO : Cooler CPU under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

The faster the speed of CPU, the more heat it generates. If your computer (desktop, laptop or server) encounters CPU overheating, you need to slow the CPU speed down in order to keep the CPU more cooler. The more cooler CPU, the better performance for some situations.

Step 1 :

sudo apt-get install linux-tools-common linux-tools-generic cpufrequtils thermald

Step 2 :

Insert the following line to "/etc/rc.local" and before "exit 0" :

sudo cpupower frequency-set -g powersave

Step 3 :

sudo sed -i 's/^GOVERNOR=.*/GOVERNOR="powersave"/' /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils

Step 4 :

Reboot your box

Remark :

To rollback, just replace "powersave" to "ondemand" or "performance".

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HOWTO : Downgrade from PHP7.0 to PHP5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

When you upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from Ubuntu 14.05 LTS, PHP5.6 will not be uninstalled or deleted. However, if you deleted yourself and your web application does not compatible to PHP7.0, you need a way to downgrade it back to PHP5.6. Here is the way but some settings will be similar to PHP7.0 for newly installed PHP5.6. Here you are :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install php5.6-cgi php5.6 php5.6-cli php5.6-mysql php5.6-curl php5.6-gd php5.6-intl php-imagick php5.6-imap php5.6-mcrypt php-memcache php5.6-pspell php5.6-recode php5.6-sqlite3 php5.6-tidy php5.6-xmlrpc php5.6-xsl php-xcache php5.6-fpm

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HOWTO : OwnCloud 9.0.2 and Hiawatha 10.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Step 1 - Update Ubuntu :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Step 2 - Hiawatha Installation :

sudo apt-get install libc6-dev libssl-dev dpkg-dev debhelper fakeroot libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.5/cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz
cd cmake-3.5.2
./configure
make
sudo make install

wget http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/files/hiawatha-10.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf hiawatha-10.2.tar.gz
cd hiawatha-10.2/extra
./make_debian_package
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i hiawatha_10.2_amd64.deb

sudo mkdir /etc/hiawatha/enable-sites

sudo nano /etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf

Add "SocketSendTimeout" just before "Binding Setting" :

SocketSendTimeout = 30

Add "MaxRequestSize" to "Binding Settings" :

# BINDING SETTINGS
# A binding is where a client can connect to.
#
Binding {
    Port = 80
    # MaxRequestSize is 100GB
    MaxRequestSize = 104857600
    MaxUploadSize = 2047
    TimeForRequest = 5,50
    MaxKeepAlive = 14400
}

Append the following line at the end of the file :

Include /etc/hiawatha/enable-sites/

Create "owncloud" file at /etc/hiawatha/enable-sites :

sudo nano /etc/hiawatha/enable-sites/owncloud

VirtualHost {
    Hostname = [your domain or IP address here]
    WebsiteRoot = /var/www/owncloud
    StartFile = index.php
    AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/owncloud-access.log
    ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/owncloud-error.log
    TimeForCGI = 14400
    WebDAVapp = yes
    UseFastCGI = PHP70
    UseToolkit = denyData
    EnablePathInfo = yes
}

UrlToolkit {
    ToolkitID = denyData
    Match ^/data DenyAccess
}

FastCGIserver {
    FastCGIid = PHP70
    ConnectTo = /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock
    Extension = php
    SessionTimeout = 14400
}

sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php-fpm.conf

Append the following lines at the end of the file :

; for OwnCloud
env[HOSTNAME] = $HOSTNAME
env[PATH] = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
env[TMP] = /tmp
env[TMPDIR] = /tmp
env[TEMP] = /tmp

[www]
pm.max_children=1000
pm.start_servers=50
pm.min_spare_servers=25
pm.max_spare_servers=75

Step 3 - MySQL Setting :

sudo mysql -u root -p

create database owncloud;
GRANT ALL ON owncloud.* TO owncloud@'127.0.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY '[your password here]';
flush privileges;
quit

Step 4 - OwnCloud Installation :

wget -nv https://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key -O Release.key
sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

rm Release.key

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install owncloud-files

sudo apt-get install exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.1-0 s-nail php-common php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-imap php7.0-intl php7.0-json php7.0-mbstring php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-mysql php7.0-readline php7.0-xml php7.0-zip php7.0-pgsql php7.0-sqlite3 php7.0-fpm php-apcu mysql-server mysql-client php7.0-cgi

sudo nano /var/www/owncloud/.user.ini

The content of the file may looking like this one :

upload_max_filesize=100G
post_max_size=100G
memory_limit=12G
mbstring.func_overload=0
always_populate_raw_post_data=-1
default_charset='UTF-8'
output_buffering=0
max_input_time=3600
max_execution_time=3600
upload_tmp_dir='/tmp/'
max_file_upload=5000

sudo nano /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php

Insert the following line into the end of the block of the code :

'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',

You may need to edit the following file at client sync program when necessary :

sudo nano /etc/ownCloud/sync-exclude.lst

To restart OwnCloud and Hiawatha services :

sudo /etc/init.d/php7.0-fpm restart
sudo /etc/init.d/hiawatha restart

Remarks :

If you want to have https connection, you need to generate the private SSL certificate or purchase one. You can also use Let's Encrypt when necessary. If so, the "binding settings" at Hiawatha should be "Port 443".

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : edb-debugger on Ubuntu 16.04

edb is a cross platform x86/x86-64 debugger. It was inspired by Ollydbg, but aims to function on x86 and x86-64 as well as multiple OS's. Linux is the only officially supported platform at the moment, but FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OSX and Windows ports are underway with varying degrees of functionality.


Install

sudo apt-get install git build-essential libboost1.58-all-dev qt5-default libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev

cd ~
mkdir arsenal
cd arsenal
git clone --recursive https://github.com/eteran/edb-debugger.git
cd edb-debugger
./travis_install_capstone.sh
qmake
make
sudo make install
cd ~
sudo edb


Update/Upgrade

cd ~/arsenal
rm -R edb-debugger

Repeat the Install procedure as previous mentioned.


Reference

Wiki


That's all! See you.

[RESEARCH] Banks In Hong Kong Running With What Services

After the research on SSL certificate grading on banks in Hong Kong, I am going to do another research on banks in Hong Kong to see what services they are running with, such as web server or protection. I am based on the List of banks in Hong Kong for the test. The standard site URL and personal online banking URL have been tested for the purpose. The web application vulnerability testing is not in the scope. The test is carried out on April 20, 2016.

DBS Bank (Hong Kong) 星展銀行(香港) and Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) 渣打銀行 are running with Akamai which provides DDoS/DoS protection to their clients. Meanwhile, Akamai also provides Web Application Firewall (WAF) to their clients. WAF can protect the web applications from being attacked by SQLi, XSS, CSRF and etc, even the web applications have these kind of vulnerabilities. I will not discuss about the WAF bypass here. Anyway, WAF can do the job well in general speaking.

Public Bank (Hong Kong) 大眾銀行(香港) and Chong Hing Bank 創興銀行 are running with G2 Web Services which is also considered to provide secure services.

It seems that almost all the bank websites in Hong Kong are protected by firewall or/and WAF as I cannot fetch any information from some of the sites during the test. It does not mean that the sites that I can fetch information are not protected by firewall or/and WAF.

In conclusion, I am sure that DBS Bank (Hong Kong) 星展銀行(香港) and Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) 渣打銀行 cannot be DDoS/DoS.

With reference to my previous research on SSL certificate, DBS Bank (Hong Kong) 星展銀行(香港) is the most secure bank in Hong Kong at the time of this writing. Their IT department is doing a great job on security. If their IT department can implement HPKP on the SSL certificate, it will be very great. Anyway, congratulations!

REFERENCE

The Personal Online Banking URL :

Bank of China (Hong Kong) 中國銀行(香港)
- Personal Customers - https://its.bochk.com/login/ibs_lgn_index_e.jsp
- System Details - Powered by: Servlet/3.0

Dah Sing Bank 大新銀行
- ebanking Personal - https://www.dahsing.com/eBank/jsp/login/ebank_id_login_frm.jsp
- System Details - Running on: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 and Powered by: ASP.NET

DBS Bank (Hong Kong) 星展銀行(香港)
- iBanking - https://internet-banking.hk.dbs.com/IB/Welcome
- System Details - Running on: AkamaiGHost

Public Bank (Hong Kong) 大眾銀行(香港)
- Net Banking - https://ebank.publicbank.com.hk/index0028.html
- System Details - Running on: G2

Shanghai Commercial Bank 上海商業銀行
- Personal Internet Banking - https://www.shacombank.com.hk/ibanking/servlet/com.ibm.dse.cs.servlet.CSEstablishSessionServlet/customer/en_US
- System Details - Running on: IBM_HTTP_Server

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) 渣打銀行
- Online Banking - https://ibank.standardchartered.com.hk/nfs/login.htm?lang=en_US
- System Details - Running on: AkamaiGHost

Wing Lung Bank 永隆銀行
- Personal Net Banking - https://www.winglungbank.com/EnNbMainR.html
- System Details - Running on: IBM_HTTP_Server

* The banks that not in the list are not getting any information during the test.


The standard site URL :

China CITIC Bank International 中信銀行國際
- http://www.cncbinternational.com/home/en/index.jsp
- System Details - Powered by: Servlet/2.5

Chong Hing Bank 創興銀行
- http://www.chbank.com/en/index.shtml
- System Details - Running on: G2

Dah Sing Bank 大新銀行
- http://www.dahsing.com/en/html/index.html
- System Details - Running on: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 and Powered by: ASP.NET

DBS Bank (Hong Kong) 星展銀行(香港)
- https://www.dbs.com.hk/index/default.page
- System Details - Running on: AkamaiGHost

Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) 富邦銀行(香港)
- http://www.fubonbank.com.hk/web/html/index_e.html
- System Details - Powered by: Servlet/3.0

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) 工銀亞洲
- http://www.icbcasia.com/ICBC/%E6%B5%B7%E5%A4%96%E5%88%86%E8%A1%8C/%E5%B7%A5%E9%93%B6%E4%BA%9A%E6%B4%B2/EN/
- System Details - Running on: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 and Powered by: ASP.NET

Public Bank (Hong Kong) 大眾銀行(香港)
- http://www.publicbank.com.hk/en/home
- System Details - Running on: G2

Shanghai Commercial Bank 上海商業銀行
- http://www.shacombank.com.hk/eng/personal/index.jsp
- System Details - Running on: IBM_HTTP_Server

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) 渣打銀行
- https://www.sc.com/hk/
- System Details - Running on: AkamaiGHost

Wing Lung Bank 永隆銀行
- http://www.winglungbank.com/wlb_corporate/en/index.html
- System Details - Running on: IBM_HTTP_Server

* The banks that not in the list are not getting any information during the test.

That's all! See you.

[RESEARCH] SSL Certificate Grading of Banks in Hong Kong

In order to understand the information security condition in Hong Kong, I select website of banks in Hong Kong for SSL certificate checking. The check is aimed for testing the strength of the SSL certificate, Man-In-The-Middle attack prevention and vulnerability. The web application vulnerability and corporation online banking are not in the testing scope. However, most SSL certificates may be shared with sub-domains.

The check are based on "List of Banks In Hong Kong". I use Qualys SSL Labs online testing tool for the check.

The result of the check (the check is carried out on April 19, 2016) is rated in SSL Grade Ranking :

Grade A
DBS Bank (Hong Kong) 星展銀行（香港）

Grade A-
(1) Bank of China (Hong Kong) 中國銀行(香港)
(2) Bank of East Asia 東亞銀行
(3) China Construction Bank (Asia) 中國建設銀行(亞洲)
(4) Chong Hing Bank 創興銀行
(5) Citibank (Hong Kong) 花旗銀行
(6) Dah Sing Bank 大新銀行
(7) Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) 富邦銀行(香港)
(8) OCBC Wing Hang Bank 華僑永亨銀行
(9) Public Bank (Hong Kong) 大眾銀行(香港)
(10) Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) 渣打銀行

Grade C
(1) Hang Seng Bank 恒生銀行
(2) Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation 滙豐銀行
(3) Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) 工銀亞洲
(4) Shanghai Commercial Bank 上海商業銀行
(5) Wing Lung Bank 永隆銀行

Grade F
China CITIC Bank International 中信銀行國際

The following three banks are implemented HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) to force the users' browser to use HTTPS connection. This has some degree of Man-In-The-Middle attack (MITM) protection. However, the HPKP (HTTP Public Key Pinning) is not implemented. Therefore, it has a risk of being attacked by MITM attack. Meanwhile, China CITIC Bank International 中信銀行國際 website has POODLE vulnerability for the SSL protocol that makes her grading down to F.

(1) China CITIC Bank International 中信銀行國際
(2) Chong Hing Bank 創興銀行
(3) Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) 富邦銀行(香港)

Even the highest ranking DBS Bank (Hong Kong) 星展銀行（香港） do not implement HPKP (HTTP Public Key Pinning), she has a risk to face Man-In-The-Middle attack even she used HSTS. Attackers can use fake SSL certificate to bypass HSTS protection when HPKP is not in force.

It is very interesting that the largest bank in Hong Kong (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation 滙豐銀行) only bearing a Grade C rank. I wonder why no website of banks in Hong Kong bearing a Grade A+ SSL certificate even my personal site is grading A+.

[Edit after several hours of the post :
I think the IT department of the banks may misunderstand or may be not fully understood the purpose of SSL certificate for a website. In addition, they may even do not know the limitation of HSTS that can be bypassed by the attackers. In my opinion, the best practice of SSL certificate implementation is to adopt the HPKP to reduce the MITM attacks risk at the moment.

The low grading of the rank is not the excuse of backward compatible to old browsers. To compatible to old or vulnerable browsers will void the security of the website for sure. Some low grading website of the banks even compatible to insecure protocol (RC4 {please refer to the bottom of this article for details}) which will place a trap to their clients.]

In conclusion, all website of banks in Hong Kong are facing a risk of being attacked by Man-In-The-Middle attack. As reference to this result, it is predicted that most websites in Hong Kong are not good at SSL Grading.

REFERENCE

I only check the licensed banks incorporated in Hong Kong. The following is the summary of the checking :

Bank of China (Hong Kong) 中國銀行(香港)
- Personal Customers - https://its.bochk.com/login/ibs_lgn_index_e.jsp
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=its.bochk.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Bank of East Asia 東亞銀行
- Cyberbanking - https://mobile.hkbea-cyberbanking.com/servlet/FRLogon?Lang=Eng
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=mobile.hkbea-cyberbanking.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

China CITIC Bank International 中信銀行國際
- Personal - https://ibanking.cncbinternational.com/CKWPortal/appmanager/Portal/CKWPerson?isPPB=0&displayLang=en_US
- Overall Rating - F (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ibanking.cncbinternational.com)
- Vulnerable to POODLE (TLS) and HPKP is not in force. But HSTS is in force.

China Construction Bank (Asia) 中國建設銀行(亞洲)
- Personal Banking - https://online.asia.ccb.com/PersonalHKWeb/signin/SigninController.jpf
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=online.asia.ccb.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Chong Hing Bank 創興銀行
- i-Banking - https://www.ibanking.chbank.com/index0041.html
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.ibanking.chbank.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found and HSTS is in force. But HPKP is not in force.

Citibank (Hong Kong) 花旗銀行
- Online - https://www.citibank.com.hk/HKGCB/JSO/signon/DisplayUsernameSignon.do?locale=en_HK
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.citibank.com.hk)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Dah Sing Bank 大新銀行
- ebanking Personal - https://www.dahsing.com/eBank/jsp/login/ebank_id_login_frm.jsp
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.dahsing.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

DBS Bank (Hong Kong) 星展銀行(香港)
- iBanking - https://internet-banking.hk.dbs.com/IB/Welcome
- Overall Rating - A (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=internet-banking.hk.dbs.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) 富邦銀行(香港)
- e-banking - https://www.ebank.fubonbank.com.hk/index0128J.html
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.ebank.fubonbank.com.hk)
- No protocol vulnerability found and HSTS is in force. But HPKP is not in force.

Hang Seng Bank 恒生銀行
- Personal e-Banking - https://e-banking1.hangseng.com/1/2/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDd-NQv1BDg2AXA1-PEE9zH2cTAwgAykcC5Q3CfCydDEy9LAzMDL39vNzMDGDyROh2dnf0MDH3AfLDPF0NPE2cTAxMfd0MDTyNCej288jPTdUvyA2NKHdUVAQA-SNG7A!!/dl3/d3/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnZ3LzZfMEczVU5VMTBTRDBNSFRJN01DNDAwMDAwMDA!/
- Overall Rating - C (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=e-banking1.hangseng.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found but insecure RC4 protocol is in force. HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation 滙豐銀行
- Personal Internet Banking - https://www.ebanking.hsbc.com.hk/1/2/logon?LANGTAG=en&COUNTRYTAG=US
- Overall Rating - C (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.ebanking.hsbc.com.hk)
- No protocol vulnerability found but insecure RC4 protocol is in force. HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) 工銀亞洲
- Personal/Private Banking - https://myebankasia.icbc.com.cn/icbc/perbank/index.jsp?areaCode=0110&dse_locale=en-US
- Overall Rating - C (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=myebankasia.icbc.com.cn)
- No protocol vulnerability found but insecure RC4 protocol is in force. HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

OCBC Wing Hang Bank 華僑永亨銀行
- Personal Customer - https://ebanking.ocbcwhhk.com/jsp/chs/personal/0830/errorInvalidDevice.jsp
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ebanking.ocbcwhhk.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Public Bank (Hong Kong) 大眾銀行(香港)
- Net Banking - https://ebank.publicbank.com.hk/index0028.html
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ebank.publicbank.com.hk)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Shanghai Commercial Bank 上海商業銀行
- Personal Internet Banking - https://www.shacombank.com.hk/ibanking/servlet/com.ibm.dse.cs.servlet.CSEstablishSessionServlet/customer/en_US
- Overall Rating - C (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.shacombank.com.hk)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) 渣打銀行
- Online Banking - https://ibank.standardchartered.com.hk/nfs/login.htm?lang=en_US
- Overall Rating - A- (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ibank.standardchartered.com.hk)
- No protocol vulnerability found and HSTS is in force. But HPKP is not in force.

Wing Lung Bank 永隆銀行
- Personal Net Banking - https://www.winglungbank.com/EnNbMainR.html
- Overall Rating - C (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.winglungbank.com)
- No protocol vulnerability found but HSTS and HPKP are not in force.


About Insecure RC4
Imperva Security Response to OpenSSL and TLS/RC4 Vulnerabilities
Killing RC4 (softly)

See Also : [RESEARCH] Banks In Hong Kong Running With What Services

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : Netdata on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

netdata is a highly optimized Linux daemon providing real-time performance monitoring for Linux systems, Applications, SNMP devices, over the web!

It tries to visualize the truth of now, in its greatest detail, so that you can get insights of what is happening now and what just happened, on your systems and applications.

This is what you get:

- Beautiful out of the box bootstrap dashboards
- Custom dashboards that can be built using simple HTML (no javascript necessary)
- Blazingly fast and super efficient, written in C (for default installations, expect just 2% of a single core CPU usage and a few MB of RAM)
- Zero configuration - you just install it and it autodetects everything
- Zero dependencies, it is its own web server for its static web files and its web API
- Extensible, you can monitor anything you can get a metric for, using its Plugin API (anything can be a netdata plugin - from BASH to node.js)
- Embeddable, it can run anywhere a Linux kernel runs

Okay, what will it be looked like? Here you are.

Step 1 :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev gcc make git autoconf autogen automake pkg-config

Step 2 :

git clone https://github.com/firehol/netdata.git
cd netdata
sudo ./netdata-installer.sh

Please "Enter" to install.

Step 3 :

sudo nano /etc/init/netdata.conf

Make the file looks like :



Step 4 :

To start it :

sudo start netdata

To stop it :

sudo stop netdata

To restart it :

sudo restart netdata

Remark : it will start automatically on every reboot.

Step 5 :

Start browser and point it to :

http://192.168.0.100:19999

* where 192.168.0.100 is the IP address of the server

Upgrade/Update

cd netdata
git pull
sudo ./netdata-installer.sh

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : Ubuntu Linux Kernel 4.4.0 (Xenial) on Ubuntu 14.04.4

We can use Linux Kernel 4.4.x on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS. Kernel 4.x has a good feature that it can live patching the Kernel without rebooting your box. However, it seems that Ubuntu 14.04.x users need to build the kpatch module themselves. Anyway, it is a good news for all Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users.

Meanwhile, the performance of the box will be improved a lot after the upgrade.

Step 1 :

sudo apt-get update

Step 2 :

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-xenial linux-headers-generic-lts-xenial linux-image-generic-lts-xenial linux-tools-generic-lts-xenial

Step 3 :

sudo apt-get remove linux-image-generic-lts-utopic linux-headers-generic-lts-utopic linux-image-generic-lts-vivid linux-headers-generic-lts-vivid

Step 4 :

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean

Step 5 :

sudo update-grub

Step 6 :

Reboot your box.

REMARK

If you are running Croissants (IPS) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, you can upgrade the Kernel to 4.4.0 as well. You just follow the captioned steps.

That's all! See you.

REVIEW : TorGuard Anonymous VPN on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

TorGuard provides anonymous VPN and anonymous proxy as well as anonymous mail services. You can purchase dedicated IP address for your anonymous VPN service too. Anonymous VPN can be worked with Stealth Proxy in order to enhance the anonymous power. Be keep in mind that it is not related to TOR (The Onion Router). You can have up to 5 simultaneously connections on every default purchase. You can add more connections with a reasonable price.

There are 4 encryption strength for the anonymous VPN, they are none, BF-CBC (BlowFish), AES-128-CBC and AES-256-CBC. For better performance, you can select UDP instead of TCP protocol. When Stealth Proxy is applied, the protocol is limited to TCP only. The stronger the encryption strength, the slower the connection speed.

The power of CPU, the speed of the internet connection, the protocol of VPN connection and the strength of encryption of the VPN connection may affect the performance of the anonymous VPN.

Once purchased, you can find HTTP and SOCKS Proxy Server Lists in your account. You can use the proxy servers without further charges. The most important is that TorGuard to identify you with your email address only. No personal detail will be recorded or asked. There is no DNS leakage when using the TorGuard VPN client. You can install "Disable WebRTC" or similar Firefox Add-on when necessary to prevent IP address leakage.

TorGuard provides VPN clients for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Android and iOS. Even the interface is the same, but the VPN server list is different. Android and iOS have lesser VPN servers and encryption strength as well as no Stealth Proxy to choose. On the other hand, you can use the VPN server list in your account but you need to set it up yourself.

The current version of VPN clients at the time of this writing is v0.3.42. You can further tune for the VPN performance on Linux, such as Ubuntu, Debian, Kali and Arch, when it is using TCP protocol. Make sure to enable "Prevent IPv6 Leak" on the client when necessary.

For example, if you want to connect to USA Dallas VPN server, you can tune the TCP connection as the following :

cd ~/.local/share/VPNetworkLLC/TorGuard/configs
nano TorGuard.USA-Dallas-NO-TORRENTS-TCP.ovpn

Change from :
sndbuf 393216
rcvbuf 393216

To :
sndbuf 0
rcvbuf 0

Then connect to TorGuard Anonymous VPN and you can watch YouTube more smoother.

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : Kali Linux 2016.1 Live USB Persistence Encryption on M.2 SSD

I (Samiux) recommend to install Kali Linux 2016.1. Live USB Persistence on M.2 SSD 128GB or higher. The M.2 SSD will be installed to an enclosure with USB 3.0 interface. I will install Kali Linux 2016.1 Live USB Persistence for Encryption only.

I (Samiux) have tried to install Kali Linux 2016.1 Live USB Persistence Encryption on 32GB USB 3.0 Pendrive. It is very very slow and insufficent space for the first update. It takes over 12 hours to update Kali Linux 2016.1 and the reboot failed. May be you can use a larger size and faster USB pendrive or an external portable SSD drive for the purpose. I find Live USB Persistence on fast device is better than dual boot on Windows, Mac or Linux computers.

This guide covers how to install Kali Linux 2016.1 Live USB Persistence Encryption for Apple Macbook (Air/Pro/Pro Retina) and Lenovo ThinkPad (X201s or newer). However, this guide does not suitable for The New Macbook as it does not display "Windows" when pressing "Option" during boot up. Therefore, this guide may not work for all models of Mac machine.

Step 1 :

You need a Linux computer (such as Ubuntu) to do the following steps. If you do not have gparted install, you can install it.

If you are using Ubuntu, you can :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install gparted

Step 2 :

Download Kali Linux 2016.1 from official site. I download amd64 version. Install it to M.2 SSD 128GB.

Usually, M.2 SSD will be mounted at "/dev/sdb". You can confirm it when running "fdisk -l".

If you are using Ubuntu, you can :

sudo dd if=kali-linu-2016.1-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k

Step 3 :

Do not unplug the M.2 SSD. Run gparted and format the remained space to ext3 (ext4 should work but not yet tested).

Step 4 :

The M.2 SSD is still inserted to USB port. Run the following commands :

If you are using Ubuntu, you can :

cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdb3
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 my_usb

mkfs.ext3 -L persistence /dev/mapper/my_usb
e2label /dev/mapper/my_usb persistence

mkdir -p /mnt/my_usb
mount /dev/mapper/my_usb /mnt/my_usb
echo "/ union" > /mnt/my_usb/persistence.conf
umount /dev/mapper/my_usb

cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/my_usb

* Make sure you enter a very strong passphrase for the encryption

Step 5 :

Then reboot the M.2 SSD.

If you are using Macbook, you should long press "Option" key when boot up. Once the boot menu is displayed, select "Windows" icon to boot.

If you are using ThinkPad, you should press "F12" to launch the boot menu when boot up. Once the boot menu is displayed, select the M.2 SSD to boot.

Once Kali Linux boot menu is displayed, select "Live USB Encrypted Persistence". You will be asked for Passphrase when boot to unlock /dev/sdb3.

Step 6 :

On Kali Linux 2016.1 Live USB Persistence, you run the following commands :

apt-get update
apt-get -y install dkms linux-headers-amd64 tlp tlp-rdw

wget http://ftp.wa.co.za/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb

If you are using ThinkPad, you need this command. However, it is no harm to install it when you are using Macbook :

apt-get -y install tp-smapi-dkms acpi-call-dkms

Step 7 :

If you are using Macbook, you need this step. However, it is no harm to set it up when you are using ThinkPad.

nano /usr/local/bin/mac_keyboard

Enter the following :

#!/bin/bash

# Author : Samiux (http://samiux.blogspot.com)
# Date : Feb 15, 2016

if [ -f /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout ]
then
    echo 0 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout
    echo 1 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode
fi

Save it with "Ctrl o" and "Ctrl x".

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/mac_keyboard

Step 8 :

If you are using Macbook, you need this step. However, it is no harm to set it up when you are using ThinkPad.

nano ~/.config/autostart/mac_keyboard.desktop

Enter the following :

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/local/bin/mac_keyboard
Hidden=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=Mac Keyboard Layout
Name=Mac Keyboard Layout
Comment[en_US]=Start Mac Keyboard Layout when GNOME starts
Comment=Start Mac Keyboad Layout when GNOME starts

Step 9 :

nano ~/update_kali

Enter the following :

apt-get update
apt-get -y dist-upgrade
apt-get autoclean
apt-get -y --purge autoremove

Save it with "Ctrl o" and "Ctrl x".

chmod +x ~/update_kali

Step 10

Then update Kali to the latest status. It takes time to update. However, when the kernel is updated, the update process will be failed as it cannot update the kernel and its related packages.

cd ~
./update_kali

Step 11

Change your time zone when necessary.

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Step 12

Make sure you change the root password on every boot up.

passwd

* Make sure you entered a strong password and it should be difference to the encryption passpharse

Know Issue

The New Macbook is not supported. It may not working on all models of Mac machine.

"maltego" on Kali Linux 2016.1 refuses to launch on my Macbook Air (Mid 2013), Macbook Pro Retina (Mid 2012) and ThindPad X201s even it is not in Live USB Persistence mode, maybe it is a bug for older CPU.

REFERENCE

TLP Setting
Broadcom Wireless Driver
Kali Linux Live USB Persistence


That's all! See you.

Source : Samiux's Blog

HOWTO : Install HexChat on Kali Linux 2016.1

This guide is about to install HexChat on Kali Linux 2016.1.

apt-get update
apt-get -y install hexchat hexchat-common hexchat-plugins libsexy2

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : Install VirtualBox 5.0.14 on Kali Linux 2016.1

This guide is about to install the latest VirtualBox 5.0.14 on Kali Linux 2016.1 (amd64).

Step 1 - Download dependencies :
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libv/libvpx/libvpx1_1.3.0-3_amd64.deb
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.0.0_1.0.1k-3+deb8u2_amd64.deb

Step 2 - Create Virtualbox repos :
echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jessie contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vbox.list

Step 3 - Install Virtualbox public key :
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Step 4 - Install it now :
dpkg -i libvpx1_1.3.0-3_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libssl1.0.0_1.0.1k-3+deb8u2_amd64.deb
apt-get update
apt-get -y install linux-headers-amd64 dkms libsdl-ttf2.0-0 virtualbox-5.0

Step 5 - Install Virtualbox Extension Pack :
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.0.14-105127.vbox-extpack
VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.0.14-105127.vbox-extpack

Step 6 - Clean up :
rm *.deb
rm *.vbox-extpack

Step 7 - Reboot :
reboot

Bonus

When install Kali Linux as guest on VirtualBox, you may need to install "Guest Additions CD Image".

apt-get update
apt-get -y install dkms

Then mount the "Guest Additions CD Image" from the VirtualBox menu.

cd /media/cdrom0
cp VBoxLinuxAdditions.run /tmp/
cd /tmp
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run


That's all! See you.