I ordered a set of cheap WiFi enabled LED light strips from Amazon. They are perfect – they stick to the back of the TV (or anything really) and the colour can be set using google assistant (or alexa) They arrived in a nice box, setup was pretty easy – Read more…
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 Techniques I can find for remote operating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. 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…
We recently got a ‘smarter coffee’ coffee machine – it has wifi, an app, and also an ifttt integration. We also have a google home in the office – that makes the perfect pairing for some automated coffee making! The setup was quite easy – after the coffee machine was Read more…
I joined a few older posts together (and redirected those old posts here) to create a single place for my public dns services list and instructions. Short list of IP addresses if you know what your doing google: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 opendns: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 quad9 (IBM): 9.9.9.9 cloudflare: 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1 You Read more…
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 – this post is a copy-paste of that info – there are a lot of red-team things in the list, 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…
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…
I wrote a previous post about kali on the hi10, and promised a followup on Chuwi hi10 pro kali linux wifi fixes; here it is. The on-board wifi works out of the box in kali 2018.01 :D Kali chuwi hi10 pro wifi fix if you have just installed kali on 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 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…
I have ordered some things for my raspberry pi, I have a raspberry pi case, an SD card, a mini usb wifi adaptor and a usb cable for power. Raspberry pi case Pibow ninja coupe The case I went for is a PiBow Ninja Coupe I like that the GPIO Read more…
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 – I could turn it into a gameboy (though I already have a couple of handheld retro gaming machines – Read more…
My New HomeLab Gigabyte Brix – 8 GB HyperX DDR3 ram for now (another 8GB on its way) Another 8GB has been ordered, bringing me up to 16gb. I’ll be upping the available ram for my Kali install and upgrading my windows 8 to windows 10! – 16GB usb drive Read more…
West Highland Way Day 4 – Inverarnan to Tyndrum. We woke up in the morning at the drovers inn fully refreshed and had a full scottish breakfast. We set off on the West Highland Way Day 4 – Inverarnan to Tyndrum from the drovers inn at 9:45 and walked along Read more…
O2 just upgraded my phone to 4g for free. when I first got this phone (5c) I didnt really need 4g – it wasnt worth the difference in price. I still dont need it – everywhere I go has a wifi connection, but its nice to get something for free Read more…
This post will show you how to turn off app auto update on iphone. if you have a limited data plan then you might want to do this as the updates tend to eat all your data allowance. to disable the app auto updates: goto settings > itunes & app Read more…
Osx has a lot of built in tools. there is a wifi analyser / packet capture tool to open it, just hold down ALT + click on the wifi icon in the menu bar the dropdown menu will have a lot more information, eg transmit rate / security info for Read more…
Using an apple magic mouse with linux is very easy: this post will show you how to setup an apple magic mouse on linux ubuntu, fedora, mint, etc. The apple mouse uses bluetooth to connect, so you need a bluetooth device (it may be built-in if you have a laptop). Read more…
What to do when your mac or ipad or iphone is stolen. This is a horrible post to have to write. My house just got broken in to and my macbook pro and my ipad got stolen, along with three other laptops. Here is a list of things I did, Read more…
To stop you iphone or ipad asking you to join lots of different wifi networks all you have to do is: go to settings > wifi at the bottom you will find an option called ‘ask to join networks’ just slide it to ‘no’ and your iphone or ipad will Read more…
This will show you how to enable wifi sync on iphone and ipad. Wifi sync will let you sync apps and movies and ebooks between your iphone or ipad and your computer, without having to plug your device in during the sync. Once you have enabled the wifi sync you Read more…
This will show you how to enable internet connection sharing on osx. system preferences > sharing tick the ‘internet sharing’ check box pick the connection that you want to share and where you want to share it the next step is to create an adhoc network click on the wifi Read more…
After moving into my new flat I had to wait three weeks for my isp to connect me. here is a list of my essential iphobe apps that kept me connected. mail.app this one is the most important. it let me read my mail. safari.app this one helped me search Read more…
jailbreaking your iphone isnt to everyones liking. but if it is then here are my recomendations for the best jailbreak apps to get: mywi it turns your iphone into a mobile wifi router. excellent if you have a laptop or the like and need some access when you are out Read more…
this one will show you how to share your itunes library over a network [a local network, like your home wifi network =] first thing: authorise all your machines with the same itunes store account. then: open itunes on the machine where your library is [ill call it the main Read more…
This guide will show you the iPhone stop screen rotating trick when you turn the device on it’s side. On an iPhone the feature that you use to stop the screen rotating is Orientation Lock. Orientation lock has been available on the iPhone for years now. In every major version Read more…
I have a little hp mini 210 that I decided to mount an external wifi antenna on. here are some pics of the Hp mini 210 external wifi aerial mod and some little descriptions to go with it. The main aim of the mod was to get an rp-sma connector Read more…
Why canonical urls are not as good as unique content and 301 redirects. I am incharge of a few websites (about 250), they are a mix of corporate sites and e-commerce sites. In october 2009 one of the programmers at work implemented googles canonical url recommendation to our e-commerce platform so Read more…
You probably know this already: turn off push in mail ( settings > mail > fetch new mail ) and set the schedual to hourly or manual – manual will only get mail when you open mail, it will also control the updating of calendars and contacts :) turn off Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your mac osx contacts to gmail contacts. This will allow for a two-way sync – ie when you add a contact to your addressbook, its automatically added to google and when you add a contact to google its automatically added to your Read more…