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…
Metasploit for website pentest using wmap. 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 be using dvwa in vagrant as my target If you dont have Read more…
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 as a target for testing exploits with metasploit.” Why do we need metasploitable? One of the problems you encounter when Read more…
A comparison of 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 utilised when developing and deploying an SOA system to overcome the challenges of a distributed enterprise system, 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…
After trying Kali on the hi10 pro (its totally not ready for the bay-trail / cherry-trail platforms) I decided to give ubuntu on the chuwi hi10 pro a go (after hearing good things about their support) This is a short tutorial on dual booting ubuntu linux and windows10 on the 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…
Automatic cron updates with yum-cron on centos Update: I made a post on installing and configuring yum-cron in centos I have a virtual machine on my esxi box running centos 7. I dont log in all that much, as most of the operations that are run are automatic (eg polling 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…
4 Layers in an SOA There are 4 layers in an SOA: Business Processes Business Services Integration Services Enterprise Resources Enterprise Resources existing applications COTS systems (consumer, off the shelf) Object Oriented systems Legacy systems (eg CRM + ERP) Data at this layer resides in existing applications and databases Operations have Read more…
4 types of service in an SOA system. Business services Domain services Integration services Foundation / Utility services Business Services Provide high-level functionality Provides abstraction of the interface Provides integration of the layers below Breaks the direct dependance between business processes and existing systems Provides a virtual implementation Provides business processes Read more…
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 build process for multiloquent theme – just incase anyone wanted to know. the tools I use: 1) eclipse (zend-php-eclipse) 2) Read more…
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 act, and have a solution, https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10965 the support ticket has a link for a hotfix here great stuff virtualbox dudes Read more…
Re-arrange virtual desktop spaces in osx: Virtual desktop spaces are a very powerful tool, Ive been using them in linux for years, and they are very powerful in osx too, once you get a hang of the way that they work, they allow you to put similar applications in their Read more…
This post will show you how to delete a virtual desktop in mac osx. Mission Control is a feature in mac osx that allows you to have many ‘virtual desktops’. You can use mission control to have different desktops for different tasks. I have a desktop dedicated to programming and Read more…
This post will show you about moving between virtual desktops in osx mission control. I also have a post about how to setup multiple virtual desktops. Once oyu have the desktop spaces setup you can quickly move between them (I use the keyboard shortcuts all the time) – it allows Read more…
Adding virtual desktops in mac osx This is a short blog post about adding virtual desktops in mac osx – virtual desktops are a cool feature that let you have lots of ‘fake’ monitors that you can use to organise your programs, and you can access them with a mouse Read more…
I dont use the osx widget dashboard. This post will show you how to disable dashboard osx. I had to look for a way to turn it off to save some resources and to stop the default widgets showing in my virtual desktop spaces while I was looking for another Read more…
This is my setup when using SVN for web development on a mac. I have since moved to git and a virtual machine running centos. I also use a continuous integration setup) General overview of my svn for web development setup 1) svn on my mac [it comes with the Read more…
A few things went wrong today. well, not exactly wrong, just not the way I had expected. we got a message from mcaffee saying that their copy of nessus had found that we were running apache < 2.2.9 – which we were, so it was time for us to update Read more…