Os Detection Techniques Background information This is a list, with explanations for all the active and passive techniques I can find for remoteoperating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Background information: techniques Active fingerprinting – Active fingerprinting is the process of transmitting packets 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…
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…
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…
I joined a few older posts together (and redirected those old posts here) to create a single place for my public dns services list and instructions. Short list of IP addresses if you know what your doing google: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 opendns: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 quad9 (IBM): 9.9.9.9 cloudflare: 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1 You Read more…
This post is a combination of previous posts about privacy settings in mac and ios. Safari do not track: Safari gives users the option to enable the ‘do not track’ feature. It’s easy to enable: safari > preferences > privacy > Ask websites not to track me Safari prevent cross-site Read more…
At work we had a mac mini 2014 that needed an ssd harddrive upgrade. This post has a short video and some info on the process documenting how to remove the harddrive from a 2014 mac mini and install an ssd. You will need a few tools: guitar plectrum (to Read more…
There are a couple of things you need for mining monero in osx using xmring: 1) A monero wallet (get one from mymonero.com) 2) Homebrew (brew.sh) mining monero in osx using xmring: dependencies You have to make sure you have homebrew installed (so that you can install the xmrig dependencies), Read more…
This is a short post about how to install macOS High Sierra GM on your mac. You will need an apple developer account. Log in to developer.apple.com Click the ‘install GM seeds’ link at the bottom right (or go to developer.apple.com/download) Click the download button next to the macOS High Read more…
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…
This is a short post on how to factory restore android on chuwi hi10 1) Download and install intel phoneflashtool https://01.org/android-ia/downloads/intel-platform-flash-tool-lite 2) Download the version of android you need from here: http://forum.chuwi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2341&extra=page%3D1%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D25 The password is en.chuwi.com 3) Connect your chuwi to your mac with a usbC cable 4) Turn your Read more…
This is a short tutorial on dual booting windows and Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro. Updated for Kali 2018.4 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 Read more…
Pihole on a raspberry pi – making a network wide advert blocker with a raspberry pi. I have a router using dnsmasq with adblocking setup on my router. I also have a raspberry pi (which was being used as a retropi machine). I also have a Pizero. My retropi setup Read more…
This post will explain ddwrt dnsmasq caching dns server configuration Using a ddwrt dnsmasq caching dns server lets machines in your LAN resolve DNS from a machine inside your local network, ultimately reducing the time to resolve an IP address from a domain name. If there is a result in Read more…
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…
Linux / OSx commandline network host discovery This post contains Various ways to find the hosts in your network using commanline commands. For the following, it is assumed that: 192.168.1.0/24 is your whole network 192.168.1.255 is your broadcast address Replace with your own values (you can find these with ifconfig) Read more…
This post will show you how to install phpcs and phpmd in sublime text on your mac: Following on from my post about using git and phpcs in brackets, I decided to try the same setup in sublime text. The first part is some background setup – installing phpcs and 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…
This post lists all the shutdown / sleep / lock screen keyboard shortcuts mac osx that I have found on my macbook air. (I haven’t discovered the combos myself – I just run across them on the ‘net and sometimes they stick, these are the keyboard shortcuts I’ve learned) 1) Read more…
Since I released my first public wordpress theme (I have made lots of themes over the years, but have never released any as open-source) I decided I would share the build process for multiloquent theme – just incase anyone wanted to know. the tools I use: 1) eclipse (zend-php-eclipse) 2) Read more…
This post will show you how to record your screen on mac with quicktime. This is something I use constantly at work (making help guides with this method is fantastic) 1) Open quicktime 2) Goto file > new screen recording You can now click the screen and quicktime will record Read more…
Investment appraisal evaluation SCOTLAB TC COP Savings Achieved Cost of investment Opportunity cost Time-value of money Life of investment Available finance Benefits of investment Timing of income Compound Interest using the above factors you can calculate: Cash flow Opportunity cost Profitability
ICloud keychain is an excellent feature in osx mavericks and ios7.To enable iCloud keychain on iPhone and ipad: class=”alert alert-success”>If you have iOS < 7.0.3 Install iOS 7.0.3 [preferences > general > software update] As part of the iOS 7.0.3 setup you will be asked to add a passcode if Read more…
This post is about osx console emulators. It should help you pick the best emulators for your games jump to: Game Boy / Color / Game Boy Advance Nintendo Entertainment System [ NES ] Super Nintendo Entertainment System [ SNES ] Nintendo 64 playstation psx link to another post on Read more…
This one confused me for ages. iCloud tabs in safari in iOS. they are a great feature, you can pickup where you left off reading tabs from your mac on your iPhone or iPad. in ios7 they seem a little hidden, and they are quite hard to find. to access Read more…
This post is a collection of things to form a best practice for mac security. 1) enable password after sleep or screensaver. settings > security > require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver. This will stop anyone who sneaks up on your machine when your not there from using Read more…
This post will show you how to encrypt your external drives so that your data remains safe. it really only works with new drives though, so if you have a drive thats already got lots of data on it, you might need to find a way to save that data Read more…
If you keep backups on time machine you can browse these backups from a different mac. there is a little trick to it, but its simple once you master it :) if you click on the time machine icon in the menu bar then the time machine menu will appear. Read more…
Enabling encryption on your macs harddrive is easy. goto system preferences > security and privacy > filevault click the padlock in the bottom left hand corner type your password click ‘turn filevault on’ you will then get a recovery key. you can write this down, print it, email it, whatever Read more…
I didnt know this. there are hidden games in your mac! they are accessed from the terminal. 1) dunnet. open terminal emacs -batch -l dunnet its a mud. its quite strange and all I found out is that I need a key to get through a door and that there Read more…
Finally a use for siri! you can use siri to generate secure passwords. thanks to the wolfram alpha integration inside siri you can ask: wolfram alpha password and siri will grab you a random password from wolfram! {sourced from cult of mac but I thought it was cool enough to Read more…
This post will show you how to delete the backups of your iphone or ipad from itunes on your mac / pc with icloud you no longer need to make backups of your iphone or ipad in itunes, backups are sent automatically to icloud. to free up the space from 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…
Bluestacks run android apps on your mac! bluestacks is an awesome app for your mac: It lets you run android apps on your mac! Bluestacks is a virtualised android environment that installs on your mac as an app. Bluestacks is free, but after a while you either have to pay Read more…
How to disable sleepsafe hibernate mode on your mac. Your mac has a few cool features to let it wake form hibernation quickly. one is called sleepsafe. sleepsafe works by creating a file in your harddrive that contains all of the contents of your ram inside it so that it Read more…
This post will show you how to delete dmg disk image automatically – it will delete a mac disk image file (dmg) when you eject it from your mac There is an easier way to do the following (just drag the mounted dmg file to the trash, but this is Read more…
This is a cool thing that you can do with your mac: have the archive utility automatically delete a zip file after its been expanded! open finder go to /System/Library/CoreServices open archive utility goto the menu bar > archive utility > preferences change ‘after expanding’ to be ‘delete archive’ enjoy Read more…
Show full path in finder title: This post will show you how to show the full path in the title bar of your finder windows on mac osx. open terminal defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES killall Finder From now on all your finder windows will show the full path Read more…
This post is a comparison of the various email clients available on mac osx (and some mac osx email clients and sparrow alternatives if you are looking for them – Ive included sparrow in the list aswell so that others might learn its awesomeness) 1) mail.app features: imap, pop, exchange, Read more…