We have talked about remote controlling your system with Twitter. Now, it is time for Android phones to take control! Gmote can turns your Android phone into a remote control for your computer.
Follow these three simple steps: 1. From your Android handset, download and install the Gmote 2. From the computer you wish to control, download and install the Gmote Server. 3. Launch Gmote from your phone, select the server to connect to, and that is all!.
Gmote turns Android into a remote control for a computer, allowing users to run movies and music at a distance. It supports all of the standard remote control features such as play, pause, rewind, volume controls etc. It also has a built-in file browser that lets you select what to play.
Gmote supports both WiFi and 3G so its easy to control basically its created to control your PC as media player.
We actually forgot to mention an update to TweetMyPC, which we wrote about here. Thanks to this hoopla about the Twitter botnet’s that we remembered about this open source tool which has now been updated to version 3.
“TweetMyPC enables you to remote control your PC through a Twitter account. The program runs on your PC (in the system tray) and monitors a dedicated Twitter account for messages that contain one of the supported trigger words, and then performs the desired action on your computer. There are a variety of commands available that allow you to perform shutdown and reboot operations, control the speaker volume, download a file to your PC, send a pop-up message to your desktop and more. The program can even respond to your commands via tweets or Gmail, allowing you to capture a snapshot of your desktop of your desktop, retrieve your LAN/WAN IP address, get a list of currently running processes or have a file sent to you as email attachment. You can also create custom commands that enable you to execute any program or batch file on your computer.“
This version includes support for Windows Vista, Seven, 64-bit versions; faster reaction; more features and better security!
Targeted attacks against organizations that leads to information theft becomes more and more prevalent. This is a small writeup that we think will be a interesting read for all of you! Most of research that has already been done focuses on techniques that leads to exploitation, be it exploiting a vulnerability in an application, or social engineering techniques. This paper aims to ll the gap, and describes techniques used to control already owned systems. It is based on a real example of a targeted attack observed by many organizations that were hit by this particular attack. The general concept of the analysis and much more.
Topics that will interest you: - Targeted attack against an organization - Analysis of the infected document - Internet research on popular Remote Administration Tools (RAT) - Nuclear RAT - Gh0st RAT - Bifrost Remote Controller - Poison Ivy RAT - Poison Ivy package downloaded from the Internet - The architecture - The server - The client - The comms - Unobfuscating the client - The vulnerability - The exploit - Conclusions
