Apparently, the Linux bash shell is coming to Windows 10. This will offer a fully functional Linux bash prompt in the Windows app store, a good alternative to Powershell. This is in partnership with Canonical who work on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. As long as this offers tools such as dig, wget, and whois, it … Read more
Firstly, download a kernel tarball from kernel.org. jason@jason-desktop:~$ wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz –2016-03-29 10:22:34– https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz Resolving cdn.kernel.org (cdn.kernel.org)… 103.245.222.69 Connecting to cdn.kernel.org (cdn.kernel.org)|103.245.222.69|:443… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK Length: 89423304 (85M) [application/x-xz] Saving to: ‘linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz’ linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz 100%[======================================================================>] 85.28M 1.29MB/s in 66s 2016-03-29 10:23:54 (1.28 MB/s) – ‘linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz’ saved [89423304/89423304]jason@jason-desktop:~$ wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/linux-4.6-rc1.tar.xz –2016-03-29 … Read more
Some very useful Linux tricks and tips. Convert a Linux text file to DOS format with AWK. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ awk ‘{sub(/$/,"\r")};1’ hello.txt > dodo2.txt┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ awk ‘{sub(/$/,"\r")};1’ hello.txt > dodo2.txt Convert a DOS text file to UNIX format. [jason@darknet:~] awk ‘{sub(/\r$/,"")};1’ dodo2.txt > dodo3.txt[jason@darknet:~] awk ‘{sub(/\r$/,"")};1’ dodo2.txt > dodo3.txt Get your Internet-facing IP address from … Read more
The new Ubuntu 16.04 release allows moving the Unity launcher to the bottom of the screen. This does make sense, screens are wider than they are tall, and I like having the bar on the bottom of the screen. Use the command below to move the bar to the bottom. jason@jason-desktop:~$ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position … Read more
This is how to format a hard disk partition that will hold data for your Linux system. The partition must be unmounted before formatting, but this is the ideal way to create a file-system on a new partition that has been created with fdisk. root@jason-desktop:~# mkfs.ext4 mkfs.ext4 mkfs.ext4dev root@jason-desktop:~# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd3 mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) /dev/sdd3 … Read more
I recently needed to crack a pin number hash that was four digits and used the numbers 2490. This sounds easy, but hard until you realise that it is a relatively simple PIN. I used the command below to generate a 60 Gigabyte wordlist, containing all possible combinations of the numbers in the PIN. crunch … Read more
Break Windows 10 password hashes with Kali Linux and John the Ripper Cracking the SAM file in Windows 10 is easy with Kali Linux. Use a Live Kali Linux DVD and mount the Windows 10 partition. Firstly, get the SAM and SYSTEM files from the C:\Windows\System32\config folder. Copy these to your desktop directory. Then dump … Read more
Richard Stallman, interviewed by Matthias Schüssler, in Zurich on February, 9th, of 2016. This is an interesting interview regarding information security and free software versus closed source proprietary software.
I was getting the read time-out error on Me TV on Ubuntu 16.04 and this is how I fixed it. Just run the application with this command line. ~$ me-tv –read-timeout 60~$ me-tv –read-timeout 60 This fixed the error. My ASUS My Cinema-U3100Mini Plus V2 device is now working and I am happy again. So … Read more
This Cisco command will list all passwords on a switch. mrrobot#sh ru | inc password service password-encryption password 7 00141215174C04140B70 password 7 00141215174C04140B70mrrobot#sh ru | inc password service password-encryption password 7 00141215174C04140B70 password 7 00141215174C04140B70 The inc command looks for any text that matches the argument. Like this: mrrobot#sh ru | inc line line con … Read more
This command will add an IP route to the 172.29.59.1 router using the wlan0 wireless interface card on my laptop. jason@darknet:~$ sudo ip route add 0/0 via 172.29.59.1 dev wlan0jason@darknet:~$ sudo ip route add 0/0 via 172.29.59.1 dev wlan0 This is part of the process of creating a network connection from your machine to a … Read more
This photograph shows an elevator display screen that is displaying an Ubuntu Unity desktop environment with the updates manager prompting for updates to be installed. This is strange, this is not necessarily the most reliable desktop environment and running this on a computer in an elevator seems like a very dumb idea. But whoever designed … Read more