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…
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…
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…
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 will be to gather information on a host and its running services and their versions and vulnerabilities, rather than to 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…
osx mojave beta is available to the public. To get it you have to sign up at apples btea program website. Once signed up, you can click the link for the osx mojave beta, sign in and then can download the beta from the app store. It takes a while Read more…
This is a burpsuite beginners tutorial. Burpsuite is a collection of tools, written in Java used to perform various network security related tasks. Burpsuite can be used as a basic http proxy to intercept traffic for analysis and playback, a web application security scanner, a tool to perform automated attacks 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…
Multiloquent 10 0 0 Changelog f5ed825 – post format 268d5ef – removing old hings e59727b – cleanup dd08d38 – version bump adb1fa7 – syntax error fix 68555e5 – fixes 089c9f0 – remove api key 90426b8 – updating readme 7195e1b – version bump c7dc318 – fix for images, version bunp dbc9b9a 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…
At work we had a mac mini 2014 that needed an ssd harddrive upgrade. This post has a short video and some info on the process documenting how to remove the harddrive from a 2014 mac mini and install an ssd. You will need a few tools: guitar plectrum (to 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 post on how to factory restore android on chuwi hi10 1) Download and install intel phoneflashtool https://01.org/android-ia/downloads/intel-platform-flash-tool-lite 2) Download the version of android you need from here: http://forum.chuwi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2341&extra=page%3D1%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D25 The password is en.chuwi.com 3) Connect your chuwi to your mac with a usbC cable 4) Turn your Read more…
Kali linux wpa_supplicant cli config. To setup a wifi connection using wpa_supplicant on the cli in kali, first you have to bring up your network interface ifconfig wlan0 up Next, we create a config file wpa_passphrase ‘router_ssid’ ‘wifi_password’ > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf We need to edit the config file and remove some 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…
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…
There are a couple of different ways to install php7 on centos7 – Installing yum-plugin-replace and inline-replaceing the whole php subsystem seems to be the easiest way: You need to have a couple or yum repo’s enabled for this to work properly: webtactic and epel rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh 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…
Multiloquent 9 2 02 Changelog 9577574 – updating translation pot file c1c00fc – code format 075f5cb – tptn deprecated function remove 157e3bf – code format 650047f – new method in tptn_posts [top-10 plugin API] ac75f25 – code format rules 92a4a8c – mods 8369fe8 – soem code format rules to exclude Read more…
multiloquent 9 2 0 changelog 68aebda – updating translation pot file 213336b – version bump to 9.2.0 aa0a5c6 – updating translation pot file bc3fd74 – Merge branch ‘master’ of https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent f90ac05 – code formatting and removing a rule for code-tests 5ec1ce0 – code formatting cd6286e – mods to travis file Read more…
multiloquent 9 1 0 changelog 01f86a2 – minor fixes for internationalisation 63c7275 – Merge branch ‘master’ of https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent.git 98ddc7a – small bug fixes 6c03ee2 – update to all bootstrap and bootswatch themes 74b2e9f – Code formatting / validation befaea0 – Initial i18n 64d760f – initial i18n ba8236d – wordpress search 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…
Multiloquent 9 0 0 Changelog 3015a81 – Merge branch ‘master’ of https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent a79d3a3 – Update to version number as this removes backward compatibility with the old amelia theme df0d6df – Update to bootstrap code 9bd8d60 – update to all bootstrap and bootswatch themes b39a9f3 – update to all bootstrap and Read more…
Changelog 90f2b7e – update to all bootstrap and bootswatch themes 5f251e3 – mods to css to provide a bigger target on menu for mobile device clicks 0cc6afe – Updated ruleset for phpcs 5219872 – WordPress coding standards have changed 7dcb6e6 – Yoda conditions use, you must not. comparing, assigning instead Read more…
multiloquent 8 0 0 changelog c41bf6f – update to all bootstrap and bootswatch themes c070b3e – Documentation e64a96c – update to all bootstrap and bootswatch themes 94772c5 – Docs df12467 – Documentation 75fb109 – Documentation 4bb1676 – Documentation 7623c10 – comments ab69833 – documentation b93798f – Some documentation cc0a96f – 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…
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…
Changelog ddc5425 – version bump for wordpress and changes to readme file 7e93cd1 – tag / excerpt renderer 3159eea – refactoring 2b4dfb0 – test 99833a3 – test 073aa11 – test 9277238 – test 51449f6 – test d3ff35e – test 8aa9d7a – test 3d8eb42 – excerpt code e13196f – refactor 496d876 Read more…
Multiloquent 7 Changelog 3412cf9 – updating readme f0905c2 – updating readme files f498de6 – version bump [major release] updating readme files eae969b – search form css fix 7602671 – search label 3dbab3c – search form mods 764ca66 – markup for label button dacb048 – nicer label and button 2d524fd – Read more…
Multiloquent 6 3 7 Changelog development 6e0d9f5 – updates to post templates development 2064899 – version bump for wordpress development e492fc8 – removing margins development cd612d9 – h1 tag with centered background image development e56a506 – better h1 tag with image background development 3db9dea – h1 tag in white development 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…
Changelog development c59c382 – code formatting development 9b51dc2 – version bump for wordpress submit development 15b3e3b – change for text inside the wee side-links development 662767b – test development 9dcebd0 – removing everything except the header bar and side menu development 4f4ab2c – adding the wp_footer directly to the template Read more…
Multiloquent 6 3 1 changelog development 4f1d71d – lowercase true and false development c35fd69 – minor css fix and version bump to submit to wordpress development 8f84831 – version bump for wordpress site development 2f987cf – fix for featured posts css development a8a711f – style changes for ipad versions of Read more…
Multiloquent 6 2 01 Changelog development c33c95d – fix for mce content body development 8a1cbaf – fix for background colour inside tinymce development 864c9c8 – code cleanup development 37cc370 – aligning things development d8c91b7 – alinging things development dca23c7 – aligning elements development d112d09 – code tidy development afc6101 – Read more…
Multiloquent 6 2 0 changelog development 646e320 – fix for readme file adding multiloquent url at jonathansblog.co.uk development 90f0277 – revert – its easier to read development 708ca0f – fix development afdad58 – small fix for readme development 0a54442 – version bump and changes to the readme development 5f08e9b – Read more…
This is the change log for multiloquent 6 1 01 11a7be0 psr2 fixes abe3129 psr2 changes 80cbc30 misc tidy ups 00d17a1 tag link 5ea34c5 pagination dd3582f pagination still 9443ffa pagination b44f9be pagination 2a7d85b pagination 74f362f pagination 694c07f pagination 283bc75 pagination 8329440 pagination 59ed693 pagination 313d6f5 mb class in css 02ff70a Read more…
To update to php 5.4 and mysql 5.5 in centos 6: 1) install the epel, remi and rpm-forge repos rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm 2) edit the /etc/yum.repos.d files to enable the repos vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo change the enabled=0 to enabled=1 vi /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo change the enabled=0 to Read more…
I have released multiloquent – the theme I use for jonathansblog to the public: you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/themes/multiloquent I have a github if you want a cutting-edge version (but it will be broken frequently) https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent This is the readme.txt for multiloquent theme v9 Multiloquent html5 / bootstrap theme Read more…
