Our new house has a garage, which I’m going to use as a workshop area (though I wont be changing its actual use from a garage, it will still be a garage, only with nice shelves on either side and some computers and screens) – let the DIY Garage makeover 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…
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 Security 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. Read more…
Vagrant with sshfs. You can use sshfs in vagrant with only a private network. This is fine if you are doing all your devlopment from a single machine and dont need to access the vagrant box from your network, but if you need to run some testing from an external 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…
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, including application integration, 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…
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…
How to root android on a chuwi hi10 Pro First, you need to enable developer mode How to root android on a chuwi hi10 Pro: Enable Developer Mode start android, goto settings > about tablet > click on “build number” 10 times Then you need to allow oem unlocking settings 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…
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…
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…
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…
Oracle forms overview. Oracle internet platform consists of 3 components: oracle application server (forms service + OC4J) oracle developer suite (forms developer + object navigator + form module) oracle database Oracle application server includes forms service – new generation of tools that allow devs to deploy new and existing forms 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…
I have made a simple bash script to convert your xml sitemap to html anchor tags e.g. For importing into Firefox or chrome bookmarks (or for any other use you can think of) It has been tested on linux mint and osx mavericks, but it should work wherever you have Read more…
If you keep backups on time machine you can browse these backups from a different mac. there is a little trick to it, but its simple once you master it :) if you click on the time machine icon in the menu bar then the time machine menu will appear. Read more…
There have been a lot of posts going about the blogosphere in the last few months from people talking about their ios7 wishlist. I thought I’d publish mine. 1) ability to pick default browser and email client. infact, the ability to pick default apps for lots of things would be 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…
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 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…
A rundown on some productivity apps that I use with my iphone first and foremost, I use google a lot. I have my iphone set to sync all my contacts and calendars with google calendar and contacts you can also sync the notes from notes.app with your gmail account evernote Read more…
This will show you how to enable application expose in osx lion goto system preferences > trackpad > more gestures tick ‘application expose’ and pick a gesture from the dropdown list application expose will let you switch between all open windows of whichever application you are using
Imessage does not show contacts list in messages. By default when you open the imessages application it shows the sent / received window. This is ok if you are only going to send and receive to imessages contacts as you can search them from the search bar. It does get Read more…
It took me a while, but I finally jumped on board the evernote bandwagon. i was happy with the built in notes.app for my iphone and I was happy syncing it via gmail to my mail.app on my mac. i got an iphone 4s, and donated my iphone 3gs to Read more…
I have a western digital mybook word NAS. Using the afp protocol file transfers were very slow. I knew there had to be a way to make your AFP NAS more responsive. It seems slow when you try to connect to it from a mac using AFP, but its lightning Read more…
This will show you how to create standalone desktop applications from a website using fluid.app 1) goto fluidapp.com 2) download and install fluid 3) open fluid once fluid is open then simply type the url and a name for your app. it will magically appear in the dock and you Read more…
Here are some cool things I found out about resizing windows in osx lion. you can resize from any side or corner. hold alt and resize from a side and the opposite side moves too. hold alt and resize from a corner and all the corners move hold shift and Read more…
This will show you how to increase the resolution of your netbook or any other X window system screen beyond the maximum capability of its screen. I have an hp mini 210 netbook. it has 1024×600 resolution. i found a nice hack that allows me to get scaled 1600×1200 and Read more…
Linux! Slackware floppies! zip-slack! Redhat 5.2! Tomsrtbt! Downloading zip-slack over modem for a week. Getting a shell and thinking ‘wtf’ trying dos commands. Having to reboot to read documentation! Trying random commands. Learning that xemacs needs x to run. Wtf is x? I was now at university. it was 1998. Read more…
Win 98 era; netscape, a 586 and the internet! By this time I had two computers. I had my own network. I still had the laptop. I had the null modem cable as my friend was disinterested by now, and my mums dad had given me a computer to help Read more…
Networking the laptop to play games with a null modem cable! now that I knew computers could talk to each other I started to find things everywhere, a few years had passed and doom was out. there was now a computer shop in my town, and I had failed at Read more…
A monochrome laptop, hooking up to a 14.4k modem, going on a bbs, learning AT commands It was nineteen ninety something before five, probably two or three. I must have been eleven or twelve years old. My dad had a monochrome laptop. 486 25 MHz, monochrome screen, 4Mb ram, 40Mb Read more…
This is a short nessus tutorial to help you get to grips with nessus. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner. Nessus can scan your assets for network security vulnerabilities. Nessus allows you to be proactive in securing your base so that all your base belongs to you :D Nessus tutorial quick Read more…
Protools shortcut keys select all protools shortcut keys for selection options mac + win alt+click = select all eg, to mute all tracks hold alt + click mute this works on most things – mute, solo, etc – it doesnt work on faders, pressing alt and clicking a fader puts Read more…
Protools group shortcut keys shortcut keys for mac osx: new group: cmd+g suspend/enable groups: cmd+shift+g shortcut keys for windows: new group: ctrl+g suspend/enable groups: ctrl+shift+g Sources for protools group shortcut keys Source: Protools Shortcut keys PDF Source: Protools MAC Shortcut keys PDF Source: Protools WINDOWS Shortcut keys PDF