SSH Tunneling

Hi,
Today we'll have a look at what you can do by using SSH tunneling, for example if you have access to a customers firewall with SSH and want to see if you can surf the web from the firewall itself. This can be useful to check if you have a good internet connection from the firewall.

On your machine, make an SSH connection to your remote firewall with the following options:
ssh -D 0.0.0.0:5200 -p 22 root@remotehost.org 

The -D option starts the SOCKS proxy listener, listening on your interface on port 5200 (which is just a random port).
The other options make the tunnel to your remote firewall.
We'll connect to port 22 as root on ip "remotehost.org".

Now you can configure Firefox to start using the SOCKS v5 proxy option, you need to change the listening port to 5200!

If you now surf to http://www.whatismyip.com/ and you'll see that you are now surfing from the IP of the remote firewall! All HTTP and HTTPS traffic is now encrypted using the SSH tunnel.

Now you can do a speedtest, to see if surfing the web is as slow as the customer is telling you!

Hope you enjoyed this!

Kind regards,
Matthew

Android Phone Secret Codes

Hi,
I just found a nice list of tricks you can execute on your Android OS!

Some of the codes mentioned might be dangerous, so be careful with this list!

*#*#4636#*#* - Phone / Battery / USage information
*#*#7780#*#* - factory data reset*2767*3855# - factory format*#*#34971539#*#* - information about phone camera*#*#7594#*#* - End Call / Power*#*#273283*255*663282*#*#* - File copy / backup*#*#197328640#*#* - Service mode.

WLAN, GPS and Bluetooth Test Codes:
*#*#232339#*#* OR *#*#526#*#* OR *#*#528#*#* - WLAN test (Use "Menu" button to start various tests)*#*#232338#*#* - Shows WiFi MAC address*#*#1472365#*#* - GPS test*#*#1575#*#* - Another GPS test*#*#232331#*#* - Bluetooth test*#*#232337#*# - Shows Bluetooth device address*#*#8255#*#* - This code can be used to launch GTalk Service Monitor.

GET FIRMWARE VERSION INFORMATION:
*#*#4986*2650468#*#* - PDA, Phone, H/W, RFCallDate*#*#1234#*#* - PDA and Phone*#*#1111#*#* - FTA SW Version*#*#2222#*#* - FTA HW Version*#*#44336#*#* - PDA, Phone, CSC, Build Time, Changelist number

CODES TO LAUNCH VARIOUS FACTORY TESTS:
*#*#0283#*#* - Packet Loopback*#*#0*#*#* - LCD test*#*#0673#*#* OR *#*#0289#*#* - Melody test*#*#0842#*#* - Device test (Vibration test and BackLight test)*#*#2663#*#* - Touch screen version*#*#2664#*#* - Touch screen test*#*#0588#*#* - Proximity sensor test*#*#3264#*#* - RAM version

Have fun with these secrets codes .....:)

Introduction

Hello everybody,
This will be my first blog, so bare with me while I'm learning all the secrets of blogging!

Many of you will be asking yourselves: who the hell is this guy, with just another blog...

Well, my name is Matthew Neirynck and I'm a Networking and Security Engineer at Kappa Data.
Who is Kappa Data you ask? I was just getting to that actually!

Kappa Data is a Belgian networking and security distributor, which has a strong focus on midsized and enterprise companies. The products we distribute, amongst other, are:
Juniper Networks (firewall, switching, routing, SSL VPN, WAN accelaration, wifi, ...)
Barracuda Networks (firewall, web proxy, web application firewall, SSL VPN, mail archiving, ...)
Trend Micro (anti-malware)
BlueCat Networks (IPAM)
Lancom Networks (routing, switching, wifi)
Vasco Data Security (firewall, 2-factor authentication)
Netasq (firewall)

In this blog I will try to share my experiences in the field and add some recommendations.

Hope you enjoy this!

Kind regards,
Matthew Neirynck