Month: October 2015

How to crack a SHA512 Linux password hash with oclHashcat on Linux.

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Cracking a SHA512 Debian password hash with oclhashcat on Debian 8.0. I am using a Radeon HD6670 card and I created a user with the crappy password of “password”. Then I downloaded oclHashcat 1.37 and used this to crack the password using the GPU. This is the password hash in the /etc/shadow file. fred:$6$5l70Gupv$xBTxhCSexudn5jJ9hampIfTK0KIR3nqK1K1Rxye.OA5obtKArO7jgftjJtVSdp31MPxItEPmOuWhbgBvp0wqn.:16737:0:99999:7:::fred:$6$5l70Gupv$xBTxhCSexudn5jJ9hampIfTK0KIR3nqK1K1Rxye.OA5obtKArO7jgftjJtVSdp31MPxItEPmOuWhbgBvp0wqn.:16737:0:99999:7::: The … Read more

Mandatory data retention laws passed the senate this week.

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Mandatory data retention laws passed the senate this week. The premise is to fight against Islamic terrorist attacks by retention of ISP customer data. But this will not work out right from the start. ISP`s are confused by the 400 page document that outlines what they must retain, and they are not ready to capture … Read more

Search for a specific package with dnf on Fedora 22.

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To find a specific package that offers a certain file, the whatprovides parameter to dnf will do what you wish. Here is an example, I am looking for all packages that provide the vim command. [jason@hackerbox Documents]$ dnf whatprovides "*/vim" Last metadata expiration check performed 26 days, 19:55:19 ago on Tue Sep 15 12:49:19 2015. … Read more

Adding a default route in Linux. How to define the default gateway.

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Adding a default route in Linux is easy. The route command is the best way to do this. ~# route add default gw 172.18.31.1~# route add default gw 172.18.31.1 I used this command on a machine that previously had an IP address in the 192.168.0.xx range and the default gateway was 192.168.0.1. So I had … Read more

How to scan a network for responsive hosts using Kali Linux.

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To scan a network for hosts using Kali Linux, the netdiscover command will come in handy. Just give it an IP address and it will find all hosts within that range. I am scanning for all hosts within the range of 172.29.59.1 to 172.29.59.254. root@kali:~/Documents# netdiscover -r 172.29.59.0/24   Currently scanning: Finished! | Screen View: … Read more

How I got the Internet connection working in Ubuntu server 14.03.

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I installed Ubuntu server 14.03 in a Virtual Machine and after installation the Internet connection was not working. To fix this I added the nameservers to the /etc/resolv.conf file like this. nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 After saving this file, I ran this command. sudo service resolveconf restartsudo service resolveconf restart This fixed … Read more

Enable copy and paste to and from a VMware Kali Linux instance.

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Kali Linux runs very well in a VM, but having copy and paste to and from the Virtual Machine is very helpful. To get this working in VMware Pro 12, install these packages. Firstly, this one. root@kali:~# apt-get install open-vm-toolsroot@kali:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools Then this one. root@kali:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktoproot@kali:~# apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop Then copy … Read more