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 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…
It turns out that adding cordova to an existing vue app is pretty easy – if only I’d known this before trying at least 10 different ways: First, make sure your environment is setup npm install -g cordovanpm install -g @vue/cli clone your existing repo and cd to its folder Read more…
A good talk about the risks and realities that small businesses face in the cyber domain. SME are basically not doing enough and are expecting someone to do cyber for them. There was a nice breakdown of wannacry and its effects on SME in the UK, and the ‘Not Petya’ Read more…
This is a WordPress 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 the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
Installing and configuring the fail2ban centos service fail2ban is a service for linux systems that checks log files for failed login attempts and automatically inserts firewall rules to block further attempts at logins from those IP addresses for a specified amount of time. Installing fail2ban on centos is relatively easy Read more…
Remote Debugging PHP in Brackets with XDebug prereqs: This post assumes you already have: a working xdebug install Brackets How to get Xdebug working with Brackets? Open Brackets Goto the extensions tab (the second icon on the right pane) Search for ‘xdebug’ Click install Click close, click close again Click Read more…
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 > php > debug > debuggers Change the debugger to xdebug Click configure Change the dropdown for “accept remote session Read more…
Remote Debugging PHP in Visual Studio Code with XDebug prereqs: 1) This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install2) vscode How to get Xdebug working with Visual Studio Code? Open vscode Goto the extensions tab (the last icon on the left pane) Search for ‘PHP Debug’ Click install Read more…
This is a short post detailing how to manually setup php fpm with apache on centos7. php fpm is a great solution (especially when used with nginx, but you may want to keep running apache while still having some of the benefits of fmp – you might even be running 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…
This is a short post on how to setup a dvwa vagrant box for your testing. I recommend this method when installing and testing new tools (and even for developing tools of your own) – there are known vulnerabilities in this system, so you can use the scientific method while Read more…
This is a short post on how to remove unused kernels in linux. I’m adding it here because I use it regularly and keep forgetting the commands – it might help you too! Removing kernels manually firstly, check your running kernel version uname -a next, show all the installed kernels: 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 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…
Chuwi Hi10 Pro ultrabook tablet convertable surface – That’s some title, but I’m not sure how to describe my new machine. Its a tablet, but its also a laptop – it has a real keyboard and works exactly like a laptop, except you can remove the screen! It was a Read more…
I ordered a gameboy pocket backlight mod from the internets (ebay). I went for a white backlight and used the instruction video from “this does not compute” on ebay to guide me through. It was fairly easy to install (though I did break my screen at one point and I Read more…
Keyword research for organic SEO used to be easy. You didn’t need any keyword research tools. Put up some content, let google index the content and watch in analytics as the search terms people used piled in. Then make sure you optimised for the keywords that provided the most results. Read more…
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts in centos is different from the setup in debian based distros. This is how I modified my centos install to Read more…
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] This is a short post on Installing vagrant on centos 7. First, you need to download vagrant – head over to http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads and copy the url to the current vagrant package in Read more…
Multiple ip addresses on one physical NIC. I have a gigabyte brix running esxi to host a few virtualised servers. I have one server for my web development. I have multiple apps that all require running on port 80. I have one physical network port. Fortunately, you can have multiple Read more…
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 that mail is sent from external mail services and isn’t received internally in the plesk machine (preventing users getting their Read more…
Not sure how I missed this one, but there is now a google ‘Author Stats’ section in google webmastertools: goto google webmastertools > labs > author stats you will now see all the pages that google knows you have authored, across all of the sites you author, with click through Read more…
If you have a website, then you most probably want google to index your sites content. the easiest way to do this is to submit a sitemap to google, using webmastertools. 1) Make sure you have a sitemap If you run wordpress then there are plenty of plugins that will 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 is an easy way to change the username of your wordpress admin account: login as your current admin user navigate to users > all users add a new user make sure the role is ‘administrator’ give the user the desired username that you want the next steps are: logout Read more…
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 instructions here] install redmine mylyn connector in redmine [see instruction here] once your redmine is updated and the plugin installed Read more…
Seomoz has lots of great information. I subscribe to their blog posts to make sure that I keep up to date on the latest findings and developments across the seo world. but SEO takes a lot of time, and its easy to forget things. I try to spend a couple Read more…
I posted a while ago about snes emulators on ios devices and promised to follow up with a write-up of the best ios snes emulators. first up: snes AD+ good: you can download roms from within the emulator games work bad: the controls are a little too ‘analogue’ – remember Read more…
I posted a while ago about snes emulators on ios devices and promised to follow up with a write-up of the best Snes emulators on ipad mini. first up: snes AD+ good: you can download roms from within the emulator games work bad: the controls are a little too ‘analogue’ Read more…
This post will show you how to install phpunit in centos using pear or composer. I prefer using composer as its mega easy to add lots of cool stuff and keep it all updated. Install phpunit in centos with composer. Firstly, If you don’t have composer, then you’ll need to Read more…
In osx when you install xcode, the commandline version of git is not automatically installed. This post will show you how to install git in osx. to install git, follow these instructions: 1) make sure you have installed xcode from the app store 2) open xcode 3) goto xcode > Read more…
This post will show you how to sync reminders (including location based reminders) between your mac and your iphone or iPad. enable location services on your mac goto settings > security & privacy > privacy click ‘location services’ in the left hand menu tick ‘enable location services’ at the top Read more…
This post will show you how to sync ibooks information across devices. you can sync the position you are at in a book and you can sync bookmarks too. in your iphone or ipad: open settings > ibooks make sure that ‘sync bookmarks’ is on if you tick ‘sync collections’ Read more…
This post will show you how to get your bookmarks from chrome / firefox / chrome into your ipad or iphone’s safari browser firstly, make sure that you have safari on your computer also make sure you have icloud installed in your pc if you run windows next, open the Read more…
When trying to login you get a message similar to cannot verify login with facetime or messages on osx. warning: this is quite a complex set of instructions. In the end I ended up creating a new user account on my mac and transferring my documents to the new user Read more…
How to sync imessages between iphone ipad and mac osx Once you have setup your mac and iOS device to use the same method to send and receive iMessages then anyone who sends you an iMessage (ether to your phone number or email address) will have that message delivered to Read more…
Safari in mountain lion has a cool new feature – icloud tabs. icloud tabs let you sync your browser tabs between devices, eg you can open a tab in your ipad, and then view it in your iphone or on your mac! to enable icloud tabs on your mac: open Read more…
This is an excellent tip. if you like the natural scrolling in osx lion for your trackpad, but want the old style scrolling for your mouse, then it is possible. download scrollreverser make sure that you have natural scrolling enabled: system preferences > trackpad > natural scrolling on start scrollreverser Read more…