Sam's Information: July 2019

Monday, July 1, 2019

Installing Firefox on an Amazon table

The default web browser on an Amazon table is the Silk Browser. Other popular browsers such as Chrome or Firefox are not present within the Amazon App Store. But Firefox can be added manually.

The first item is to enable installation of applications from unknown sources. The current path is Settings -> Security and Privacy -> Apps from Unknown Sources.

Open the Silk Browser. Access the web page https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android. A direct link to the .APK download should be present. To download the file, click and hold on the download link. A dialog box will appear with several options such as to open in a new tab. Select the Download link option.

A dialog box will appear stating this type of file can harm your device. Click on the OK button. The file should be downloaded to the tablet.

Once the download has completed, click on the Open link. A list of privacy and device access parameters should be displayed. Click on the Next button, and then on the Install button.

One negative aspect of this method is future updates. Since the application was not installed via an App Store, it will not be automatically patched.

Free Mac security utilities

The site below has several free security utilities for the OS X Mac platform.

https://objective-see.com/products.html

Dnstap

Dnstap is a structured binary log format for DNS software. It uses Protocol Buffers to encode events that occur inside DNS software in an implementation-neutral format.

http://dnstap.info/

https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/tap-into-your-valuable-dns-data/

PcapXray

PcapXray is a Network Forensics Tool to visualize a packet capture offline as a network diagram including device identification, highlight communication, and file extraction.

https://www.kitploit.com/2019/06/pcapxray-v25-network-forensics-tool-to.html

https://github.com/Srinivas11789/PcapXray