This is a quick chat from David Irvine, CEO of MadeSafe The world forces us to change. Private and public info is everywhere now. It was fine, till the companies started to map the data and use it to craft their algorithms. Server based infrastructure is the easiest way that Read more…
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…
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…
We recently got a ‘smarter coffee’ coffee machine – it has wifi, an app, and also an ifttt integration. We also have a google home in the office – that makes the perfect pairing for some automated coffee making! The setup was quite easy – after the coffee machine was Read more…
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…
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…
Here is my quick start bootstrap for creating laravel sites from scratch cd ~/git brew install nmp brew install nodejs curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php composer global require laravel/installer laravel new php atisan migrate:install php artisan make:auth php artisan migrate #api composer require laravel/passport php artisan migrate php artisan passport:install Read more…
Today we went for a walk from Glasgow Harbour along to Kelvingrove park. We entered Kelvingrove park through the gate where Dumbarton road changes to Argyl street, at Partick bridge, to the west of the river kelvin. A quick walk up the west bank of the river kelvin takes you Read more…
This post will show you how to use iptables on centos7. Centos7 has moved its firewall service to firewalld, away from iptables, but if you have been running centos for a while (I’ve been running iptables since I moved from ipchains), you will no doubt have a big list of Read more…
Day 3 in Sorrento – we got up early, had breakfast (toast and jam, coffee and a cake thing, zoe had boiled egg on toast, phillidelphia on toast, melon and coffee) then went to the marina – through the maze of lanes and down a mega-staircase, we ended up at 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…
The LG 34um95 yosemite resolution bug is pretty annoying. I have an lg 34um95 screen – it runs at 3440×1440 – its a great screen, unless you have upgraded to OSX Yosemite. This issue is now fixed on Yosemite 10.10.2 – if you are using a macbook air, then you 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…
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…
West Highland Way Day 2 – Drymen to Rowardennan (almost). Today we got up early, packed the tent and walked along the West Highland Way into drymen. We got breakfast (croissants with cheese and ham) and coffee in a wee shop, then headed off on our walk. Through a forrest 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…
Today we are walking from Dumbarton to Partick. Roughly 12 miles. We got the train from Partick out to Dumbarton East train station, then walked the short distance to the castle. We then walked along Glasgow road and popped in to the Dumbuck house hotel for a beer because it Read more…
On the newer iPhone burst mode is a feature in the camera app that takes photos in rapid succession when you hold the shutter button down. I just noticed this by mistake when taking a photo on my iPhone camera with ios7. iPhone burst mode If you hold the button Read more…
Today was a long day. this morning we had coffee and tea then had a full breakfast. after breakfast we set out in the cars, we went to duck bay marina, then to the view point place just at the hydro-electric power station. from there we went to inverarnan for Read more…
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…
This post will show you how to quickly download multiple tracks from itunes match using a quick shortcut 1) make a new playlist 2) add in each of the tracks (you can select all tracks and drag them into the playlist) 3) once the songs are added, click on the Read more…
With the release of osx 10.8.2 all my vitrualbox virtual machines stopped working with the error VirtualBox cant operate in VMX root mode. Fortunately virtualbox developers are very quick to act, and have a solution, https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10965 the support ticket has a link for a hotfix here great stuff virtualbox dudes Read more…
Colonsay to Craignure. This morning we were woken early to the sound of nothing. Except the waves crashing on the empty shore and the sound of the blue sky. Because the sky is blue it makes me cry. Because the sky is blue(oooh oooh ooooh oooo-oooo-ooooh) We then had a Read more…
Bruichladdich to Jura We started the morning in Port Charlotte with a crisp roll and beer. We did a quick cycle back to bridgeend and had lunch, then blasted on to Port Askaig. Eck had a good helping of their £1 whisky and we hopped over to jura on the Read more…
This post will show you how to fix the error ‘this movie requires quicktime which is not supported in this version of itunes’ when you try to play movies in itunes. If you get this message, then simply open finder, goto applications, right click on itunes and tick the ‘run Read more…
One of the best features of osx is the built in dictionary and thesaurus. you can open the dictionary (applications > utilities > dictionary) and lookup the definition of any word using the built in dictionary, or even the builtin wikipedia browser! there is, however, a cool way to lookup Read more…
This one is pretty cool. double click [with three fingers] on any word it will highlight and the inline dictionary will pop up with an explanation of that word. If the dictionary finds a match in any of your sources (configured form the dictionary app’s preferences), then it will show Read more…
iPad screen flicker fix: My iPad screen started flickering randomly one day. It would flicker when I was scrolling in safari, or when I was playing a game. It wasn’t a major flicker, but it was notice-able. The areas that were meant to be white went darker. There were horizontal Read more…
We cycled for about 40km, then jumped on a quick train for 4 stops from a random wee french place to the first stop inside espania. right into a thunder storm. we had to book into a hostel. there are 5 bars here. one place that sells pizza and 20 Read more…
Day 4 was easy. 0 miles. we got into the campsite at 8; made our tents, got a quick wash and slept. till my sauna felt almost like a tent and I had to get up and make some shade with my tarp and a few ray mears knots. then Read more…
Day 2 started with a ten km cycle down the second steepest road ive ever seen; the steepest being the one we cycled up yesterday. got 61.3km/h, could have hit 70 but my light fell off and I had to stop and walk back up 100 meters to get it. 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…
Protools shortcut keys select all protools shortcut keys for selection options mac + win alt+click = select all eg, to mute all tracks hold alt + click mute this works on most things – mute, solo, etc – it doesnt work on faders, pressing alt and clicking a fader puts Read more…
Protools group shortcut keys shortcut keys for mac osx: new group: cmd+g suspend/enable groups: cmd+shift+g shortcut keys for windows: new group: ctrl+g suspend/enable groups: ctrl+shift+g Sources for protools group shortcut keys Source: Protools Shortcut keys PDF Source: Protools MAC Shortcut keys PDF Source: Protools WINDOWS Shortcut keys PDF
This is a short post with the protools zoom shortcut keys. I use these keys all the time, they are probably my most used shortcuts in protools protools shortcuts for mac: zoom in : ctrl + t zoom out : ctrl + r protools shortcuts for windows: zoom in: win Read more…
Protools playback and record shortcut keys space: play / stop shift+space: playback at half speed F12: record enable with record enabled: space: begin recording / stop recording shift+space: begin recording at half speed Sources for protools playback and record shortcut keys Source: Protools Shortcut keys PDF Source: Protools MAC Shortcut Read more…
This is a short post with the protools bounce to disk shortcut key shortcut keys for mac osx : cmd + alt + b shortcut keys for windows pc: ctrl + alt + b Sources for protools bounce to disk shortcut key Source: Protools Shortcut keys PDF Source: Protools MAC Read more…
as its the new year its time to loose the flab. this applies to email too. I just read in one of my rss feeds an excellent way to find crap emails you dont want – search your gmail for ‘UNSUBSCRIBE’ then go through them and unsubscribe. which is nice, Read more…
This is just a quick roundup of some of my mac posts. how to transfer your itunes library from an xp or vista pc to a mac this one is for moving your itunes library from a pc with xp, vista, windows 7, windows 2000, or anything else that itunes Read more…