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/…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Remote Debugging PHP in Eclipse with XDebug prereqs: 1) This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install2) Eclipse Configuring Eclipse and Xdebug Open Eclipse Inside Eclipse, goto preferences…
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…
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…
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…
build your own blockchain application in less than an hour Edward Ciggaar developer advocate IBM I've been looking forward to this one for a while now :D starting with an…
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…
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…
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…
Altcoins exploded in 2015. Minergate is a nice little site that offers various GUI clients for cpu and gpu mining. This is a short little post about mining altcoins in…
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…
Ive completed my MSc Thesis! I was awarded a grade A (81%) and an MSc with distinction :D The abstract from my thesis is below: SQL injection vulnerabilities remain one…
My brother and his wife got me a raspberry pi for my birthday :D So far I haven't decided what to do with it, But I have lots of ideas…
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…
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…
Here is a little script that will turn off mail for every domain in plesk! I use it as part of an automated domain creation script to be doubly sure…
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…
I have been experimenting with the solarized colour palate for my console screens. One thing that I needed was colour man pages (I use man pages all the time) I…
This post will show you how to install redmine mylyn connector in zend studio or eclipse. firstly you need to configure redmine: update your redmine to the latest version [see…
Taking a screenshot on an iphone is something that you have probably done by mistake a ton of times. Its not always that easy to know what to do if…
This will show you how to airplay from iPhone or iPad to linux. This way you can stream from your iPhone to a linux media server, or a raspberry pi…
You can use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person. To do this you use the keyword 'author' author:bob final report Will bring up all the documents…
This will show you how to enable airplay on bbc iplayer for ipad or iphone. doing this will let you watch bbc iplayer content on your tv via your apple…
I did a post recently on the snowball mic from blue microphones, I also got a snowflake mic at the same time, so here is a post about that too…
I recently got a blue microphones snowball mic. the snowball is an omnidirectional USB microphone with a built-in soundcard, so you only need a usb port for it to work.…
This will show you how to burn the downloaded osx lion to a usb flash drive so that you can do a fresh install. download lion from the app store.…
Spotlight on osx is a fantastic feature which will give you suggestions by searching your mac for documents and apps. This post will show you how to turn off spotlight…
Enable firmware password on osx: This post will show you how to enable the firmware password on osx firmware passwords will protect your mac from: booting from a cd or…
This is an excellent extension for google chrome that will give your chrome source code view syntax highlighting when you view source.It supports bash files; css files; javascript files; xml…
Setting up eclipse with xampp and xdebug to debug php code. This post will show you how to setup eclipse on your mac to work with xdebug inside XAMPP. This…
There are lots of firefox addons for web development; here are the best firefox addons for web development I use on a daily basis. firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox to…
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…
ive not been posting a lot recently because ive been making a new theme for jonathansblog. I basically copied the twitter app for ipad because its nice and clean, and…