Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques – Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection Techniques I can find for remote operating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Read more…
Spidering a web application using website crawler software in kali linux There are lots of tools to spider a web application (an companies which are based on this tech, eg google) short list of tools to help you spider a site (eg for creating a sitemap for SEO, or recon Read more…
Continuing on from my original metasploit beginners tutorial, here is a slightly more advanced Metasploit tutorial on how to use metasploit to scan for vulnerabilities. The outcome of this tutorial will be to gather information on a host and its running services and their versions and vulnerabilities, rather than to Read more…
Blackarch pacman package groups Install with pacman -S groupname to quickly install a bunch of tools in one command: This info is available in the blackarch developers guide here: https://blackarch.org/blackarch-guide-en.pdf – this post is a copy-paste of that info – there are a lot of red-team things in the list, Read more…
West Highland Way Day 4 – Inverarnan to Tyndrum. We woke up in the morning at the drovers inn fully refreshed and had a full scottish breakfast. We set off on the West Highland Way Day 4 – Inverarnan to Tyndrum from the drovers inn at 9:45 and walked along 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…
This post will show you how to clear internet history and cookies from ios7 safari: goto settings > safari click on ‘clear history’ to get rid of your history click on ‘clear cookies and data’ to remove your session cookies and any assets that are cached by the browser :)
I needed to find all the files symlinked in linux that were linked to a certain file. I had a quick search all over the internet, and eventually came up with a thread on stack exchange. there were a few suggested answers, and the answer marked as suggested did work, but 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…
If you can read this then one of two things happened: either the world didnt end, or it did but the internet worked as designed, and you are some kind of survivor or an alien race and have discovered how to read tcp/ip and its a million years since I 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…
This post will show you how to setup a wireless internet connection from your mac to your phone so that you can get internet through your phones 3g connection! assuming you are allowed the personal hotspot functionality by your provider: on your iphone goto settings > personal hotspot if you Read more…
Little snitch is a fantastic little app. Using little snitch you can block outgoing connections on your mac. its like a reverse firewall for your mac. it allows you to block apps from connecting to the internet without your permission :) you can download it from http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
This will show you how to enable internet connection sharing on osx. system preferences > sharing tick the ‘internet sharing’ check box pick the connection that you want to share and where you want to share it the next step is to create an adhoc network click on the wifi Read more…
After moving into my new flat I had to wait three weeks for my isp to connect me. here is a list of my essential iphobe apps that kept me connected. mail.app this one is the most important. it let me read my mail. safari.app this one helped me search Read more…
I have moved into a new flat :) its really nice and has a fantastic view right up the river clyde, in glasgow. I have no internet access at home untill the service gets enabled, except through my phone. I have a lot of posts to write about cool things Read more…
This post will show you how to delete a virtual desktop in mac osx. Mission Control is a feature in mac osx that allows you to have many ‘virtual desktops’. You can use mission control to have different desktops for different tasks. I have a desktop dedicated to programming and Read more…
If your iphone is going slow then you might be able to speed it up significantly by deleting your photos and videos. the first thing to do is to make sure you have all the photos synced to your pc or mac. once you are sure they are all on Read more…
Linux! Slackware floppies! zip-slack! Redhat 5.2! Tomsrtbt! Downloading zip-slack over modem for a week. Getting a shell and thinking ‘wtf’ trying dos commands. Having to reboot to read documentation! Trying random commands. Learning that xemacs needs x to run. Wtf is x? I was now at university. it was 1998. Read more…
Win 98 era; netscape, a 586 and the internet! By this time I had two computers. I had my own network. I still had the laptop. I had the null modem cable as my friend was disinterested by now, and my mums dad had given me a computer to help Read more…
A monochrome laptop, hooking up to a 14.4k modem, going on a bbs, learning AT commands It was nineteen ninety something before five, probably two or three. I must have been eleven or twelve years old. My dad had a monochrome laptop. 486 25 MHz, monochrome screen, 4Mb ram, 40Mb Read more…
Im writing this on my ipad as I sit on the train. this is my feelings about it after a week… for general internet things it is amaising. I dont use my macbook for browsing any more; instead I reach for the ipad. ive tried a few apps (ok, ive Read more…
This is a short nessus tutorial to help you get to grips with nessus. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner. Nessus can scan your assets for network security vulnerabilities. Nessus allows you to be proactive in securing your base so that all your base belongs to you :D Nessus tutorial quick Read more…
I like formula 1. I like data. I like formula 1 live timing things (the pit board screens). This post is basically a way to max out on formula 1 data as it happens. There are lots of cool things that formula 1 is doing with the internet. Formula 1 Read more…
What the digital economy bill means for you as a copyright holder. I am a holder of copyright. I do sell music online. this new digital economy bill ( #debill ) is going to change the way the internet works. forever. the internet is our legacy to the children, not Read more…
fairly un eventful. as per. notable improvements / bug fixes: Application Firewall CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2801 Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8 Impact: Certain rules in the Application Firewall may become inactive after restart Description: A timing issue in the Application Firewall may cause certain rules to Read more…
ive beed doing a code cleanup to make my site more efficient, and ive added a nice mootools coverflow thing for my folio of websites – its at /axel-folio Im also going to make a seperate stylesheet for internet explorer users. that way I can put a load of css3 Read more…
Im on the train to london. I left my headphones in my bike bag at the top of the train :| at least the internet works on the train!!! I dont get to london till quarter to 4, then immeeting my wee cousin lisa for a coffee and jumping on Read more…
I own my own domain ( I own a couple of them) and I have to pay for bandwidth, so I can’t afford to host my own mp3 files here, so I have been looking into different ways to host my audio files – Last.fm seems to be the best Read more…
