Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API – Part 5 at this point pour app looks pretty poor, this part of the turorial we will fix some of the issues we have: 1) add a link for the categories 2) use some bootstrap code to make things look nicer Read more…
Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API – Part 3 In part 3 we will be looking at categories (or archives in wordpress terminology) At this point, its good to look into the wordpress API – fortunately there is excellent documentation available here: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ The specific endpoint we are Read more…
In part 3 we will be looking at categories (or archives in wordpress terminology) At this point, its good to look into the wordpress API – fortunately there is excellent documentation available here: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ The specific endpoint we are interested in is the ‘post’ endpoint: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/categories/ The first edit we Read more…
I have decided to start studying towards a CISSP and / or an OSCP, as part of that I saw an excellent blog post recommending to go through a lot of CTF challenges from vulnhub.com. These are my Kioptrix walkthrough guides / findings and observations for each of the first Read more…
This is a WordPress mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
Installing and configuring the fail2ban centos service fail2ban is a service for linux systems that checks log files for failed login attempts and automatically inserts firewall rules to block further attempts at logins from those IP addresses for a specified amount of time. Installing fail2ban on centos is relatively easy Read more…
What is a WAF A WAF is a web application firewall. A Web Application Firewall protects HTTP applications (eg websites) using a set of rules to protect against various common attacks, such as SQL Injection and Cross site scripting (XSS). Mod Security Web Application Firewall Mod_Security is an apache (and Read more…
Vagrant with sshfs. You can use sshfs in vagrant with only a private network. This is fine if you are doing all your devlopment from a single machine and dont need to access the vagrant box from your network, but if you need to run some testing from an external Read more…
It turns out that coding in php on android is possible (even if its not as good as on a mac, linux or even windows). In this blog post I’ll go into some editors, IDE’s and other options for editing php code (and running a development LAMP stack) on your Read more…
This is a simple Vega scanner tutorial for beginners on XSS scanning with vega scanner in kali linux. VEGA is an open-source web security scanner, written in java with a GUI. you can scan for XSS issues and can also scan for SQL injection vulnerabilities. In this short introduction tutorial Read more…
Vagrant with NFS and public_network. You can use NFS in vagrant, but it requires a private_network to work; This is fine if you are doing all your devlopment from a single machine and dont need to access the vagrant box from your network, but if you need to run some Read more…
Kali linux wpa_supplicant cli config. To setup a wifi connection using wpa_supplicant on the cli in kali, first you have to bring up your network interface ifconfig wlan0 up Next, we create a config file wpa_passphrase ‘router_ssid’ ‘wifi_password’ > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf We need to edit the config file and remove some Read more…
I wrote a previous post about kali on the hi10, and promised a followup on Chuwi hi10 pro kali linux wifi fixes; here it is. The on-board wifi works out of the box in kali 2018.01 :D Kali chuwi hi10 pro wifi fix if you have just installed kali on Read more…
My brother got me a BBC micro:bit for my birthday. I decided to have a play around with it to see what it can do – its a pretty good ecosystem – you can edit code in python, load it to the device using bluetooth from your mobile and its Read more…
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts in centos is different from the setup in debian based distros. This is how I modified my centos install to Read more…
Hardening ssl ciphers. I wrote a post previously about disabling sslv2 and enabling sslv3 and tlsv1. Times have changed since then, its been best-practice for a long time now to only use tlsv1.1 and tlsv1.2 with forward secrecy. This post replaces the previous post, and will be updated with the Read more…
This post contains the kali linux keyboard freeze fix. Kali 2.0 is out, and I’ve installed it on my work pc; one thing I noticed was that the usb keyboard kept becoming un-responsive. It was very annoying. Symptoms Keyboard stops responding randomly for a few seconds, making typing very difficult. Read more…
Automatic cron updates with yum-cron on centos Update: I made a post on installing and configuring yum-cron in centos I have a virtual machine on my esxi box running centos 7. I dont log in all that much, as most of the operations that are run are automatic (eg polling Read more…
Multiple ip addresses on one physical NIC. I have a gigabyte brix running esxi to host a few virtualised servers. I have one server for my web development. I have multiple apps that all require running on port 80. I have one physical network port. Fortunately, you can have multiple Read more…
This is a short tutorial showing how to setup wordpress and cloudflare flexible ssl. Cloudflare offer a service called ‘flexible ssl’ this means that cloudflare encrypts your content between the end-user and cloudflare, but the connection between cloudflare and your site is not encrypted. This is a good solution if Read more…
I had an old usb harddrive caddy sitting about that only worked with IDE drives. I also had an old usb to ide (both 2.5 and 3.5 drives) and sata drives with no power supply. I also have a variable PSU. I have a pile of old harddrives that I Read more…
Setting up brackets editor with git and phpcs with wordpress coding standard etc Brackets editor (brackets.io) is an editor that I’ve wanted to try out for a while now, but for it to be viable for me to use, I had to configure a few things: git in brackets editor Read more…
Oracle forms overview. Oracle internet platform consists of 3 components: oracle application server (forms service + OC4J) oracle developer suite (forms developer + object navigator + form module) oracle database Oracle application server includes forms service – new generation of tools that allow devs to deploy new and existing forms Read more…
To update to php 5.4 and mysql 5.5 in centos 6: 1) install the epel, remi and rpm-forge repos rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm 2) edit the /etc/yum.repos.d files to enable the repos vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo change the enabled=0 to enabled=1 vi /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo change the enabled=0 to Read more…
WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts This is a short post about setting up WordPress and buffer for automatic google plus posts. Buffer is an excellent service that allows posting to multiple social media sites (twitter, Facebook, google+, linkedin) If you run a wordpress site then there are Read more…
Importing google reader starred items into pocket. As you all know google reader is being killed very soon. there are lots of google reader alternatives. I use reeder on my phone, ipad and mac to read all my rss feeds. it syncs with google reader and so I have built Read more…
How to change the temperature scale in ipad Siri will tell you the weather on the ipad if you ask. On the iphone there is a weather app. in the weather app you can change between Centigrade and Fahrenheit. the ipad doesnt have the weather app, but there is a Read more…
This is an excellent tip I saw in one of my rss feeds over the christmas break: quickly view and edit drafts in iphone / ipad mail.app open the mail app on your iphone / iPad press and hold the compose new mail icon in the top right hand corner Read more…
mc for mac osx! GNU Midnight Commander – mc – is an excellent orthodox text mode file manager. mc runs in your console, and has mouse support. It also has support for utf-8. It has a builtin editor (though you can configure your own, so you can use vim if Read more…
This is a great way to fix all your itunes album art. its not reversible, so its not for the feint of heart. 1) open itunes 2) goto ‘albums’ 3) press cmd+A 4) right click > get info if it says ‘you are editing multiple items’ click ok 5) tick Read more…
This post will show you the two ways that you can email photos from an iphone and an ipad the first way: direct from mail: open mail, compose a new mail to someone as usual touch and hold on the body of the email, as if you were going to Read more…
This post will show you how to re-open a closed tab in safari simply press cmd+Z yes, undo works :) you can also go to the edit menu and you will see ‘undo close tab’
Taking a screenshot on an iphone is something that you have probably done by mistake a ton of times. Its not always that easy to know what to do if someone asks you (though once you know its a very simple thing to do!. This post will show you how Read more…
This post will show you how to turn off spell check in safari. You can also turn off auto-correcting using this method. how to disable spellcheck in safari open safari click in a text box or text area (the addressbar will do) goto edit > spelling and grammar untick ‘check Read more…
/etc/hosts host file editor for mac osx: gasmask is an app that sits in your system tray and lets you edit the hosts file when you need, and allows for fast hot switching of profiles. Editing the /etc/hosts file on a mac isnt that difficult with commandline or your editor Read more…
Google have released an ‘author’ tag. the author tag is what enables sites to have a ‘byline’ in the google search results. this post will show you how to setup and test the new author tag so that google can (at their discretion) show a picture of you next to Read more…
This will show you how to [drastically] speed up your linux netbook 1) install prelink sudo apt-get install prelink 2) edit the config file sudo vi /etc/default/prelink Near the top of the file change the following line PRELINKING=unknown to PRELINKING=yes 3) add in a cron job sudo /etc/cron.daily/prelink it will Read more…
This will show you how to airplay from iPhone or iPad to linux. This way you can stream from your iPhone to a linux media server, or a raspberry pi :D If you don’t know what airplay is already, then this post most likely isn’t for you, but here is Read more…
