Online tool to help you judge your cyber resilience and provide training The tool is available on the NCSC website. It’s available for free and helps an organisation practice in a safe environment. It’s taken a year to build, can be used by technical and non technical staff. The system Read more…
Metasploit for website pentest using wmap. Wmap is a web application scanner that runs within metasploit. We can use wmap to get an outline of the application we are probing. Start dvwa inside vagrant In this tutorial I’ll be using dvwa in vagrant as my target If you dont have 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…
Natural Selection Brewing are a Herriot-Watt University Masters Project (yep, they do a masters degree in beer!) Each year they choose to do a different beer, and they do everything themselves – they concept the beer, make the recipe, brew it, package it, market it, distribute it, hold a launch Read more…
This post will show you how to mount a remote ssh filesystem as a ‘drive’ in osx using a bash script, osxfuse and brew. There are a few ways to go about this, all of them require a bit of setup and tweaking, But I found this to be the Read more…
MetaSploit tutorial for beginners This MetaSploit tutorial for beginners is to be a starting guide for how to use MetaSploit. It assumes that you already have MetaSploit installed, or that you are running Kali / backtrack Linux. The basic concept of how to use MetaSploit is as follows:– Run msfconsole Read more…
Some of the new siri features in ios6 are really cool. you can launch apps, eg ‘launch facebook’ you can post to facebook directly from siri eg ‘post to facebook’ you can post to twitter directly from siri – eg ‘post to twitter’ we now have sports results in the Read more…
This post will show you how to disable the annoying popups when you try to launch an application for the first time on osx optn the terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false
This will show you how to use spotlight to search google and display the results in chrome, firefox or any other browser 1) open safari 2) go to preferences > general 3) make sure ‘google’ is your preferred search engine. 4) make sure the browser you want to use to Read more…
This post will show you how to fix the iphone and ipad home button by recalibrating it. you will know that your home button needs re-callibrating if it feels sluggish or if it misses clicks. if this is happening to you with your iphone or ipad or ipod touch then Read more…
This post will show you how to stop iphoto from opening when you plug your iphone or ipad into your mac plug in your iphone / ipad open Applications > Image Capture in the left hand side, under devices, you will see your device. if you select that device (click Read more…
This short blog will show you the ways to activate launchpad osx lion. Launchpad was introduced in osx as a way to launch applications similar to the way you launch apps on an ipad or iphone. Launchpad displays apps from your mac in a grid and is configurable. Launchpad shows Read more…
Osx lion is to launch on wednesday july 20, 2011. apple have confirmed it. does that mean that it will launch midnight GMT? probably not, it will probably be 9am PST :( well, I now have use for my 240GB SSD :)
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…
keeping chrome firefox and safari synced is hard. browser wars are good. and bad. now with the launch of a dev build of chrome for the mac and linux there is now a decent choice of fast browsers on mac. one problem is how to keep all the data synced Read more…
Well. I have to make a new website. I actually have about ten to do. we are making big changes to our system. we are taking all of the code out of the docroot and are having a few classes that extend the classes inside the core of the system Read more…
Ableton tutorial number 3 follow actions. Ok, here is the third installment of my ableton tutorials – this time its all about follow actions and automation whats a follow action you ask – well, you have a loop and it plays through and after it plays it stops playing and Read more…