Versions I worked with:
OS X 10.5
Hamachi: hamachi-0.9.9.9-osx
HamachiX: http://hamachix.spaceants.net/download.html version 0.9 (1C10)
TunTap: http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/download.xhtml version 20080804.tar.gz

First, install hamachi. Run ’sudo ./install’. Do nothing more (if you are following along in the provided read me from hamachi).

Second, download and install TunTap. Comes as a pkg, just double click it. Run thru the install windows, enter your root pw and you should be good to go.

Third, download a gui for hamachi and install it. HamachiX comes as a dmg, just drag to your install folder.

At this point you are pretty much done. Now you just need to configure and login to a remote network. I assume you have a network already..

1. From Applications on your mac, select HamachiX. Double click HamachiX.
2. Login.
3. Click Add. Select Join Network.
4. Enter in Network Name and Password. Click add. You should get a message back ‘Joined’.
5. highlight the network name with your mouse and click on it. On the right, make sure ‘Network Online’ is checked (otherwise your connection is useless).
6. Ping to the workstations in the list (assuming they allow icmp and respond) you should be good!!!

Have fun..

Chuck

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This tip was tested using Leopard (10.5).

To mount a remote smb (windows) share for startup:

1. Open your share. (command k) which brings up Connect to server. type smb://server/share
2. Click the + sign. Server gets added to the favorite list, now highlight it and click connect. (you may have to plug in credentials for your share)
3. Now, open Accounts (located in System Preferences). To get to System Preferences, simply click the Apple symbol in the upper left of your screen and select System Preferences. Click Accounts. You may have unlock to make changes (if so just click the lock - enter creds if needed).
4. Next highlight the account you wish to add this smb mount to. Click Login items.
5. Go back to the smb share window and click on the icon at the very top of the window next to the share name. Drag it over to the Login Items list and drop it.

That’s it.

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I frequently use Wireshark to troubleshoot communication issues between systems and today I got the itch to see if Wireshark installs on Mac OS X (15.4). I was pleased to see that Wireshark (currently at revision 1.02) is available for Apple’s OS. I download the dmg and easily installed Wireshark (similar to other apps you install for Mac - drag icon into Apps). After installing, I then ran the app and it came up without issue however I couldn’t see any nics. Initial thoughts were that it is a permission issue so I then closed the app, opened terminal and issued a

sudo wireshark

A security warning popped up, I clicked Ok and then was able to view the interfaces and initiate a capture on my active interface - en1.

I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into Wireshark and was excited to see it work just as well on my Mac as it does on my Windows machine

Source: Wireshark.org

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If you are a Gmail user, you’ve always had the capability to plug https into your browser and use gmail securely - but now Gmail has added a feature to force this behavior! So log in to gmail now (don’t wait), go to settings, general tab, browser connections - set it to ALWAYS USE HTTPS!

Gmail rocks…

Source

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I just finished reading up on some interesting press about a Cisco Rootkit presentation coming up at EUSecWest this Thursday, May 22. According to the article it is not to be released into the wild but is only present to show that this type of thing can happen and how they have done so. I’m very interested to hear more about this one especially after Cisco gate/Lynn sometime ago.

This is a placeholder for me to revisit this after the presentation date on May 22.

Source:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/051408-hacker-writes-rootkit-for-ciscos.html?t51hb

Cisco’s current response (aware of issue, researching, yada yada):
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sr-20080516-rootkits.shtml

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