Security – Tackling the hard problems
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
The LG 34um95 yosemite resolution bug is pretty annoying. I have an lg 34um95 screen - it runs at 3440x1440 - its a great screen, unless you have upgraded to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…