MetaSploit tutorial for beginners This (updated for 2021) MetaSploit tutorial for beginners is meant to be a starting guide on how to use MetaSploit if you have never used it before. It assumes that you already have MetaSploit installed and that it works, or that you are running Kali / Read more…
This tutorial will show you how to make a Raspberry Pi hack tool by installing Kali on the Raspberry Pi – by the end of this guide you will have a Kali Raspberry Pi hacking tool with lots of tools ready for use! Install Kali on the Raspberry Pi Following Read more…
Metasploit for website pentest using wmap. This is a short tutorial on using the wmap module inside metasploit. Wmap is a web application scanner that runs within metasploit. We can use wmap to get an outline of the application we are probing. Start dvwa inside vagrant In this tutorial I’ll 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…
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…
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 is now updated with install information for using 2020 versions of Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro. 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 makes Read more…
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 centos with minergate using the CLI client. Currently on minergate you can mine: Aeon [AEON] (aeon.cash) Bytecoin [BCN] (bytecoin.org) Bitcoin Read more…
Pihole on a raspberry pi – making a network wide advert blocker with a raspberry pi. I have a router using dnsmasq with adblocking setup on my router. I also have a raspberry pi (which was being used as a retropi machine). I also have a Pizero. My retropi setup 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…
[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…
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 is a basic openvas tutorial for beginners. I will explain a little of how to use openvas web ui to perform a test of your systems. It will give you the basic options for using metasploit msfconsole to run an openvas vulnerability scan. You will also learn how to Read more…
This tutorial is a basic Kali linux arachni tutorial: to get arachni up and running on your kali linux system and perform a basic scan. Arahni is a vulnerability scanner for web-apps, it is installed as part of kali-linux, their site is here Arachni via the command line Open a 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 post will show you how to mount a remote ssh filesystem as a ‘drive’ in osx using a bash script, osxfuse and brew. There are a few ways to go about this, all of them require a bit of setup and tweaking, But I found this to be the 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…
Setting up brackets editor with git and phpcs with wordpress coding standard etc Brackets editor (brackets.io) is an editor that I’ve wanted to try out for a while now, but for it to be viable for me to use, I had to configure a few things: git in brackets editor Read more…
This post will show you how to show hidden files in finder (like .htaccess). There isn’t an easy ‘on/off’ switch for it, instead, you have to enable it from the command-line… Open terminal, type in: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES && killall Finder The setting will be written, and Finder Read more…
How to change the number of icons in launchpad – this is a great tip: change the number of icons in launchpad! if you use launchpad a lot (I don’t, because the icons are too big) then you can change the number of icons that are shown at any one Read more…
This is an excellent tweak to make to your osx or linux system open man pages in safari (or firefox or chrome): man pages are great, but they arent the most usable. browsers are far more usable. You can set an enviroment variable in your osx or linux system that Read more…
How to disable sleepsafe hibernate mode on your mac. Your mac has a few cool features to let it wake form hibernation quickly. one is called sleepsafe. sleepsafe works by creating a file in your harddrive that contains all of the contents of your ram inside it so that it Read more…
This post will show you how to change the default notification sound for the osx notification centre. firstly, there are a couple of rules: 1) the file has to be an AIFF file 2) the file cant be longer than 2 seconds once you have a suitable file (or have Read more…
Show full path in finder title: This post will show you how to show the full path in the title bar of your finder windows on mac osx. open terminal defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES killall Finder From now on all your finder windows will show the full path Read more…
The osx help app is very good. there is a lot of information contained within it, but it has an odd behavior that none of the other osx apps have: its always on top of all the other windows. it means that you have to close the app once you Read more…
mc for mac osx! GNU Midnight Commander – mc – is an excellent orthodox text mode file manager. mc runs in your console, and has mouse support. It also has support for utf-8. It has a builtin editor (though you can configure your own, so you can use vim if Read more…
This post will show you how to change the warning that happens in osx when you try to change the file extension in finder. open terminal type in defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false killall Finder you can now change the file extensions without a warning dialog popping up!
If you find yourself needing to click a link from terminal in osx, then there is a way to open it without having to copy / paste it to your browser. hold cmd + double click on the url and it will open in your default browser!
Since ubuntu 11.04 the scrollbars have been funny. they are inspired by the osx lion scrollbars and only show when you hover over where they should be. fortunately you can get the old ‘classic’ scrollbars back with a simple terminal command: sudo echo “export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0” > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbars once you have Read more…
How to change the default save location from icloud in osx mountain lion and newer. The default save location for icloud enabled apps is no longer on your own hard-drive. Textedit, keynote, pages, etc are all icloud enabled now, so when saving, the save dialog opens with iCloud. You can Read more…
customise osx bash prompt: I was reading over an old lifehacker post (I was looking for the bash profiles site, and found this too), its a pretty good way to customise your terminal command prompt, so I thought id share it with you http://lifehacker.com/5840450/add-a-handy-separator-between-commands-in-your-terminal-on-mac-os-x-and-linux there are other cool things you Read more…
If you use the terminal app a lot, you will know that you can press the up arrow to get to the last command you typed to save you typing it again (it saves a load of history for you so you can pick the command that you typed ten Read more…
In osx lion and mountain lion the ~/Library folder is hidden. this terminal command will un-hide it for you. open terminal type chflags nohidden ~/Library you will now be able to see your ~/Library folder in finder
This post will show you how to disable smooth scrolling in osx mountain lion. open terminal type defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO smooth crolling will now be disabled!
I upgraded from lion to mountain lion on my Macbook air 2012. This is how I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a 2012 macbook air. As soon as I installed mountain lion I instantly noticed that the battery life was terrible. Instead of 8-9 hours I was getting Read more…
This post will show you how to mount a macox dmg image file in linux. firstly, open terminal sudo mount -o loop /path/to/image.dmg /place/to/mount now your dmg file will be mounted in the /path/to/mount folder :)
How to enable 2d dock on osx: This post will show you how to enable the black 2d dock in osx. enable 2d dock on osx open terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES killall Dock This will change a setting and re-start your dock, the 3d effect Read more…
This post will show you how to disable the annoying popups when you try to launch an application for the first time on osx optn the terminal and type: defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false
This will show you how to find bios version information from linux command line terminals. open the terminal / command prompt and run the command: sudo lshw -html > lshw.html then open the html file in a browser you will find out all sorts of useful information about your hardware