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…
All in all I had a great day at CYBERUK19 in Glasgow. I picked up a load of goodies and had very interesting conversations with a lot of interesting people. I’m looking forward to implementing some of the things I discovered and using some of the things I got (webcam 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…
I made another modified gba with backlit screen mod – this time the modified gameboy advance with a backlight was a present for my brothers birthday. I ordered the original gameboy advance, a new case, transparent buttons and a new backlit screen and an adaptor ribbon for the screen from 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…
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…
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 ordered a Pibow Ninja Coupe a few days ago, and got it delivered to work this morning. This post is full of photos, unboxing the case and assembling the case with the raspberry pi inside it! The case arrived at work this morning At home, waiting to be opened Read more…
This post will show you how to setup dnsmasq in order to serve dns requests for (multiple) internal domains – using dnsmasq as an internal DNS server. Using this setup you can also add block lists so that your entire network doesnt get adverts :D eg you can serve a Read more…
This is a quick post about importing nessus6 scan results into metasploit. This can be very useful for adding a ton of information into a new Metsploit database, or adding to information you already have (eg importing results from a weekly or monthly scan of a website / web server) Read more…
Multiloquent 9 0 0 Changelog 3015a81 – Merge branch ‘master’ of https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent a79d3a3 – Update to version number as this removes backward compatibility with the old amelia theme df0d6df – Update to bootstrap code 9bd8d60 – update to all bootstrap and bootswatch themes b39a9f3 – update to all bootstrap and Read more…
What is an sql injection attack? All websites process data entered by users. An input-validation attack is when unexpected user input is processed by a web server or database and an error occurs. What is an sql injection attack? “An SQL Injection Attack (SQLIA) occurs when an attacker attempts to 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…
Multiloquent 7 Changelog 3412cf9 – updating readme f0905c2 – updating readme files f498de6 – version bump [major release] updating readme files eae969b – search form css fix 7602671 – search label 3dbab3c – search form mods 764ca66 – markup for label button dacb048 – nicer label and button 2d524fd – Read more…
Jonathan Mitchell Portfolio About Me I have a BSc in Electronic Engineering, and an MSc in Advanced Computer Systems Development with Distinction. I was awarded the University Court Medal for excellence twice – in my PGDIP year, and in my MSc year. I am also a professional member of the Read more…
Oracle instead of triggers, and why you need them: You cant update a view if it contains:group byorder byanalytical /aggregate functionssubqueriesjoins You then need an ‘instead of’ trigger CREATE TRIGGER my_trigger INSTEAD OF INSERT ON my_view FOR EACH ROW DECLARE — stuff BEGIN INSERT INTO table_a VALUES ( :NEW.col_a, :NEW.col_b); Read more…
Multiloquent 6 3 1 changelog development 4f1d71d – lowercase true and false development c35fd69 – minor css fix and version bump to submit to wordpress development 8f84831 – version bump for wordpress site development 2f987cf – fix for featured posts css development a8a711f – style changes for ipad versions of Read more…
If you want to set a featured image on all wordpress posts that dont already have a featured image set, then this mysql query can help: # please note that this query will fail; you have to replace ‘id_of_image_from_upload_table’ with the id of the image you uploaded. To find that Read more…
I have released multiloquent – the theme I use for jonathansblog to the public: you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/themes/multiloquent I have a github if you want a cutting-edge version (but it will be broken frequently) https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent This is the readme.txt for multiloquent theme v9 Multiloquent html5 / bootstrap theme Read more…
Mailbox app imap folders disabled: Mailbox app is a great email app for the ipad. A major bonus also occurs when you link it to your dropbox account – you get a free 1gb extra space! When I tried to setup an account I encountered a problem though: a message Read more…
This post will show you how to change the default email client in osx. it will let your chosen email client be used for both mailto: links and for the safari share with email feature. the actual setting for the default email client is in mail.app you need an account Read more…
One of the things that bugs me about the wordpress admin section is that its not easy to change the order of teh columns displayed, and its not obvious how to change the columns that are shown. there is a plugin that will let you do this (and if you Read more…
I just found this out by mistake! while trying to alt+click on the timemachine icon in the osx system bar thing in the menu bar I held cmd instead of alt… if you cmd+click on items in the system menu bar then you can move their position and even drag Read more…
This post will show you how to convert all filenames in a directory to lowercase (or uppercase). This is on that I don’t use often, so I’m adding it here in order to find it later on, hopefully! convmv –lower –notest * you can use *.jpg to rename all jpeg Read more…
This short blog post will show you a command that will let you find the ten biggest files or directories in linux and osx machines. I forget these commands every time I need to use them, so I have added a post to my blog to help me be able Read more…
This will show you how to change order of apps in iphone or ipad notification center for groups of apps in your ipad or iphone notification center. It helps when you have lots of apps that send lots of notifications and you only want the important ones on top. goto Read more…
In ios5 and above you can change the default email account – allowing you to send emails from a specified account. To do this goto: settings > mail, calendars and contacts scroll down and find ‘Default Account’ select it, and you are presented with a list of your configured mail 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…
Health apps are a big category for iphone, ipod and ipad apps. there are loads available, some work and are useful, some dont and arent. ive tried hundreds of them, and here are the ones I think might be of use to you nike+ http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/ iphone / ipod appp tracks Read more…
Defining and implementing a solid technical social media strategy. this post is all about how to get your content to as many ‘social media’ sites as possible with minimal effort and tracking it all so that you know whats happening 1 ) different types of sites, microblogging, news aggregation, etc Read more…
google is now using the speed of your site to determine your search rankings your site needs to be as fast as it can. Along with optimising your site for search results and w3c and wcag validation you now need to optimise for speed using google pagespeed. there are a Read more…
this will show you how to make Itunes smart playlists for podcasts and music so you can have every episode of certain podcasts, and the latest episodes of the others. Its also good for music – eg songs you have never played, songs you havent played in the last 6 Read more…
The train home is uber crowded. I still managed to get a seat. today I have been writing a script that will migrate a database from one system to another – I have to traverse every table and sort the fields into the correct fields in the new table in Read more…
A few things went wrong today. well, not exactly wrong, just not the way I had expected. we got a message from mcaffee saying that their copy of nessus had found that we were running apache < 2.2.9 – which we were, so it was time for us to update Read more…
Ive been busy mastering tracks. I just mastered 37 tracks (I actually mastered 51 of them, but a few got dropped already) I have bounced them all down to disk and now need to sort out the order of the tracks to make them flow better. I have my own Read more…
Mastering tracks – Ok, so the hard part is done. you’ve written, demoed, practiced, arranged in countless different ways, recorded, re-recorded, mixed, re-mixed and finally scrapped and done all that again, you have a handfull of songs. your not happy with them (noone ever is). now the hard part starts. Read more…