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How to turn your Android phone into a security analysis toolbox (via installing BackTrack)

2012, May 5 - 22:08 — müzso
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.backtrackinstallfre...
Well, I should have known. Smiling Once people start putting Ubuntu and whatever on their Android phones, there's no turning back. Eye-wink A guy called Zachary Powell started making Android apps that help you install Ubuntu, Debian or BackTrack on your phone. I think the latter needs not too much of an introduction ... it's got pretty much most of the "security" tools that you might need to do a vulnerability scan of a LAN. Running BackTrack on your phone you can become a "secret agent", walking into a place and just "hack" (as in "run apps that do it for you") through your way to the target by pressing a button titled "upload virus" (note the movie reference Smiling ). Of course as a possible side-effect you might find yourself pretty soon in jail. Eye-wink So treat this idea as seriously as it was meant. Smiling

Undocumented mm.cfg parameters for the debug version of Adobe Flash Player

2012, May 3 - 11:05 — müzso
http://jpauclair.net/2010/02/10/mmcfg-treasure/
A long list of undocumented mm.cfg parameters that could be of help while debugging ActionScript code.

Kazam Screencaster

2012, April 30 - 08:50 — müzso
https://launchpad.net/kazam
"Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format. Optionally you can record sound from any sound input device that is supported and visible by PulseAudio."

GTK+ UVC Viewer (webcam app for your Gnome desktop)

2012, April 30 - 08:42 — müzso
http://guvcview.sourceforge.net/
"This project aims at providing a simple GTK interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the linux UVC driver, although it should also work with any v4l2 compatible device."

Explanation of real, effective, saved set and file system UID/GID values from /proc/<pid>/status

2012, April 28 - 07:15 — müzso
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8499296/realuid-saved-uid-effective-uid-whats...
Very informative. It'd have been nice to see at least a reference to the setuid(2) (and/or seteuid(2)) manpage in the description of /proc/[pid]/status in the manpage of proc(5). Sad

How to fix Samsung Galaxy Nexus MTP file transfer for Ubuntu 11.10

2012, April 26 - 20:39 — müzso
http://www.humans-enabled.com/2011/12/how-to-fix-samsung-galaxy-nexus-mtp.html
One comment on the article: in Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (v12.04) the libmtp is already the latest (v1.1.3) and Nexus works with it (ie. you can write to the device too) out of the box.

Options of the ps command in Android's builtin toolbox (aka. simplified busybox replacement)

2012, April 25 - 08:01 — müzso
https://github.com/android/platform_system_core/blob/master/toolbox/ps.c
Toolbox itself does not give away too much help about the supported commands' options. Actually it gives you more like nothing. Smiling So the only way to find out what options each command supports is by looking into the source. The supplied link points to the latest version of the ps command's source. If you're interested in a specific Android version's ps command, select it in the "branch:...." combobox.

Rooting the Galaxy Nexus

2012, April 25 - 03:21 — müzso
http://android.modaco.com/topic/348161-01-feb-r4-superboot-rooting-the-gsm-lte-g...
The essential part of the Superboot image is a small shellscript. Actually the entire boot environment is only there so this shell script can be successfully executed. The script consists of the following commands:
mount -o rw,remount -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/system /system
rm /system/bin/su
rm /system/xbin/su
mkdir /system/xbin
cat /superboot/su>/system/xbin/su
chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su
cat /superboot/Superuser.apk>/system/app/Superuser.apk
mount -o ro,remount -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/system /system

Editing contents of the root filesystem of your Android phone

2012, April 21 - 23:56 — müzso
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Unpack,_Edit,_and_Re-Pack_Boo...
The linked page describes it pretty well. However in case of ICS the /dev filesystem has changed a bit. The boot and recovery images are not available as /dev/mtd/mtd1 (etc.) anymore. You've to look for them here: /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/boot.