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Android

Kali linux nethunter on unrooted android – rootless nethunter!

I recently saw this tweet from kali linux https://twitter.com/kalilinux/status/1209615382224547840?s=19 on installing rootless nethunter on an unrooted android device. This is my attempt to do so. The tweet linked here: https://www.kali.org/docs/nethunter/nethunter-rootless/ The instructions are pretty easy to follow Install the NetHunter-Store app from https://store.nethunter.com I had to enable install from this source Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 months3 months ago

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OS Detection Techniques

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 1 year3 months ago

Kali Linux

Kioptrix Walkthrough Guide

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 1 year3 months ago

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Website crawler software kali linux

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 1 year4 weeks ago

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WordPress Security

This is a WordPress Security 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. Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years3 months ago

Apache

Fail2ban centos

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years2 years ago

Apache

Mod Security Web Application Firewall

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years2 years ago

Apache

Malware detection on Plesk systems

Malware detection on Plesk systems using maldet and clamav Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years2 years ago

Hardware hacking

Raspberry Pi hacking

This tutorial will show you how to make a Raspberry Pi hack tool by installing Kali on the Raspberry Pi – by the end of this guide you will have a Kali Raspberry Pi hacking tool with lots of tools ready for use! Install Kali on the Raspberry Pi Following Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years2 years ago

Commandline

Vagrant with sshfs and public network

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years2 years ago

Kali Linux

Installing metasploitable with vagrant

Metasploitable background: What is metasploitable? “Metasploitable is a Virtual Machine that is built from the ground up with a large amount of security vulnerabilities. It is intended to be used as a target for testing exploits with metasploit.” Why do we need metasploitable? One of the problems you encounter when Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years3 months ago

Methodology

service-oriented architecture and frameworks – SOA frameworks

service-oriented architecture and frameworks IntroductionPapazoglou, (2003) organised SOA in four architectural layers: Service Foundations, Service Composition, Service Management and Service Engineering and outlined a host of technologies that could be utilised when developing and deploying an SOA system to overcome the challenges of a distributed enterprise system, including application integration, Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years3 months ago

Commandline

How to use metasploit to scan for vulnerabilities

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years3 months ago

Android

Coding in php on android

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years3 months ago

Kali Linux

Vega scanner tutorial for beginners in kali linux

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 2 years2 years ago

Commandline

How to remove unused kernels in linux

This is a short post on how to remove unused kernels in linux. I’m adding it here because I use it regularly and keep forgetting the commands – it might help you too! Removing kernels manually firstly, check your running kernel version uname -a next, show all the installed kernels: Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years2 years ago

Hardware hacking

Blackarch on the chuwi hi10pro – install and config

Blackarch on the chuwi hi10pro – prereq’s a usb hub a usb flashdrive a usb mouse a usb wifi adaptor (at least for the initial setup) Download blackarch from https://blackarch.org/downloads.html write to a usb drive (I used Etcher to do this part) Plug into chuwi and boot – Press F7 Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years3 years ago

Android

How to root android on a chuwi hi10 Pro

How to root android on a chuwi hi10 Pro First, you need to enable developer mode How to root android on a chuwi hi10 Pro: Enable Developer Mode start android, goto settings > about tablet > click on “build number” 10 times Then you need to allow oem unlocking settings Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years3 years ago

Kali Linux

Kali linux wpa_supplicant cli config

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years2 years ago

Kali Linux

Chuwi hi10 pro kali linux wifi fixes

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 years3 years ago

Hardware hacking

Ubuntu on the chuwi hi10 pro

After trying Kali on the hi10 pro (its totally not ready for the bay-trail / cherry-trail platforms) I decided to give ubuntu on the chuwi hi10 pro a go (after hearing good things about their support) This is a short tutorial on dual booting ubuntu linux and windows10 on the Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 years3 years ago

Hardware hacking

Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro – updated for Kali 2020

This post is now updated with install information for using 2020 versions of Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro. When I first wrote this post I seriously wouldn’t have recommended Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro as an every-day system – Starting with 2018.01 and the 4.14 kernel it makes Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 years3 months ago

Android

Chuwi Hi10 Pro ultrabook tablet convertable surface

Chuwi Hi10 Pro ultrabook tablet convertable surface – That’s some title, but I’m not sure how to describe my new machine. Its a tablet, but its also a laptop – it has a real keyboard and works exactly like a laptop, except you can remove the screen! It was a Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 years3 years ago

Kali Linux

Automatic updates in kali

Automatic updates in kali (and other apt based distros). There are a ton of ways to do automatic updates in kali linux (though this will work on debian, ubuntu, proxmox and any other apt-based system): 1) unattended-upgrades 2) a cron script 3) cron-apt This post will go through the various Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 years3 years ago

Commandline

Linux commands for networking with command line

This post has a collection of Linux commands for networking. There are basic linux network commands, advanced linux network commands and some centos network configuration commands, but I’ve tried to keep it to the point. jump to:Linux Network ConfigurationBasic Linux Network CommandsAdvanced Linux Network Commands Linux commands for Networking Configuration Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 years3 months ago

Kali Linux

How to install birdwatcher in kali linux

How to install birdwatcher in kali linux Birdwatcher is an OSINT data analysis and data gathering tool for twitter. Birdwatcher has been designed to feel like metasploit or recon-ng, so should be familiar for anyone who has used those tools. Install birdwatcher in kali linux: Kali has ruby 2.2.x. by Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 years2 years ago

Commandline

Copy a file to multiple locations in linux

How to copy a file to multiple locations in linux. cp doesnt let you copy one file to multiple locations; There are a few ways to do this, but the one I always return to uses find To copy the contents of a directory to multiple other directories find /location/to/folder Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 5 years2 years ago

Kali Linux

Kali linux keyboard freeze fix

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 5 years5 years ago

Networking

Multiple ip addresses on one physical NIC using virtual NICs in centos

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 5 years4 years ago

Hardware hacking

My HomeLab

My New HomeLab Gigabyte Brix – 8 GB HyperX DDR3 ram for now (another 8GB on its way) Another 8GB has been ordered, bringing me up to 16gb. I’ll be upping the available ram for my Kali install and upgrading my windows 8 to windows 10! – 16GB usb drive Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years2 years ago

Hardware hacking

Mounting a harddrive from a western digital mybook NAS to recover data

The data in the Western Digital MyBook drives is stored in a raid on the 4th partition of the drive. Mounting the western digital mybook NAS to recover data in another linux install isn’t for beginners. But here is the process: 1) Remove the drive from the western digital NAS. Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years2 years ago

Kali Linux

Fixing the cmd and fn keys with an apple keyboard in linux

I use an apple keyboard at work, I also use ubuntu. There are two things that I need to do to fix the cmd and fn keys with an apple keyboard in linux. 1) modify a file to make the F1-F12 keys work properly (eg, pressing the fn key makes Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years2 years ago

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OpenVas tutorial for beginners using web and metasploit

This is a basic openvas tutorial for beginners. I will explain a little of how to use openvas web ui to perform a test of your systems. It will give you the basic options for using metasploit msfconsole to run an openvas vulnerability scan. You will also learn how to Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years3 months ago

Kali Linux

Kali linux arachni tutorial

This tutorial is a basic Kali linux arachni tutorial: to get arachni up and running on your kali linux system and perform a basic scan. Arahni is a vulnerability scanner for web-apps, it is installed as part of kali-linux, their site is here Arachni via the command line Open a Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years2 years ago

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Nikto tutorial for kali linux

This is a basic nikto tutorial for kali linux. It will get you started with nikto. For advanced usage, see ‘man nikto’ or the cirt website Nikto is a web application scanner – it will scan a web service and look for known vulnerabilities. It can be very useful to Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years3 months ago

Kali Linux

Plecost tutorial

This is a basic plecost tutorial. Plecost is a commandline utility that will scan your wordpress host and identify lots of information leaks that could potentially help crackers breaking in to your site. There is some information at iniqua labs, but its a little difficult to get to grips with. Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years2 years ago

Commandline

MetaSploit tutorial for beginners

MetaSploit tutorial for beginners This (updated for 2020) MetaSploit tutorial for beginners is meant to be a starting guide on how to use MetaSploit if you have never used it before. It assumes that you already have MetaSploit installed and that it works, or that you are running Kali / Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years3 months ago

Development

Brackets editor with git and phpcs for wordpress development

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years2 years ago

Itunes

Selection of podcasts I subscribe to

Here is a selection of podcasts I subscribe to [RSS] PARANORMAL PODCAST [RSS] Practical Backpacking™ Podcast [RSS] Sasquatch Chronicles [RSS] The Unexplained with Howard Hughes [RSS] The Gralien Report [RSS] The Bigfoot Field Guide [RSS] The Linux Link Tech Show Itunes Feed [RSS] Ubuntu Podcast » MP3 [RSS] Coder Radio Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 years3 months ago