dc0de’s & friends notes…

Ok, so this “morning”, when I finally rolled out of bed, I started playing with Matlego CE again, to see what I could learn today.

As always, I tend to search for things that I know will give me results, such as my one “nickname/handle” or my personal or professional email addresses, websites, etc…

Today I wanted to test out the phrase entity in Maltego. So, I did what any geek would do, I searched for dc0de. (My nick/handle.)

After I filtered out the other people using my same nick/handle, I came up with this diagram:

The upper left of the image shows the documents  that reference the phrase, some of them are mine, some are other people’s who referenced me in their presentations. There’s also an email reference from Mr. Feinstein’s  presentation at Defcon. (Thanks Ben!)

The lower left, shows the websites (with icon of a server) that have links, accounts, users, or other references to the phrase.

And the purple “germ” icon, shows the tweets from twitter that reference the phrase.

It’s pretty amazing, and I’ve found that I’d forgotten about a few sites, didn’t know about some others… and also got to see where other people had been talking about me on IRC, much to my amusement.  (Dagmar… funny stuff from 2008).

For my next trick, I’m going to redo the same phrase, then do a search on one of my email addresses, to see how well it cross correlates the information.

Here’s a cool tool I found, by accident.  It may be old to some of you, but I find it to be very useful.  It allows me to make bootable USB sticks, very easily. Sourceforge Project Page Wikipedia Entry UNetbootin is an amazing tool, well written and multi-platform.  I have used this tool to create several USB Bootable flash drives, and really enjoy it’s ease of use.  There are several options for well known distributions, that will create a bootable USB flash disk, and download the latest iso image to build your flash distro. **You can also install your own distribution of choice, as seen in the screen shot below:

Options in the current version, are: Arch Linux, BackTrack, CentOS, CloneZilla, Damn Small Linux, Debian, Dream Linux, Elive, FaunOS, Fedora, FreeBSD, FreeDOS, FrugalWare, Gentoo, Gujin, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Mandriva, NetBSD, NTPasswd, openSUSE, Ophcrack, Parted Magic, PCLinuxOS, Puppy Linux, Slax, SliTaz, Smart Boot Manager, Super Grub Disk, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Zenwalk.

If you don’t see your distro of choice, you can simply download the iso image, and select it from your hard drive.  I used it to install SumoLinux from iso onto a 32GB usb stick recently, and it worked flawlessly.   As I am writing this, I’m also installing SliTaz onto a 1MB USB stick, and including the download of the ISO, from start to finish, took only a few steps.

1. Insert the target usb stick
2. Launch UNetbootin
3. Select the drive from the dropdown, (My only USB inserted was F:\, and was preselected)
4. Select the distribution from the dropdown list
5. Press “OK”

The Slitaz distro was 26Mb, so it took a minute or two to download, and then the build process begins:

Once downloaded, the process only takes about 60 seconds:

I am very happy to have found it, and wish to thank Geza Kovacs (tuxcantfly) [The Author of UNetbootin], and all those who helped.  This is a great tool!