Scanning websites with Nmap is a lot of fun.
How to brute force credentials on a website server using Nmap.
How to brute force credentials on a website server using Nmap.
How to use a simple one-liner to view the most popular posts on a WordPress blog site.
Some more very useful Google Dorks for finding information in 2023.
How to use AWK to parse Apache server logs.
How to easily parse Apache server logs and get useful information.
Parsing Apache logs is a lot of fun with awk on Linux. This can be very interesting, to see all of the bots and other visitors you get, there are so many crawlers accessing your website and indexing all of your pages. But this can be used to find unwanted leaching of bandwidth as well, … Read more
Google Dorks can be very useful for finding user information posted online. This Google Dork will find logfiles and other things with usernames and passwords posted online. allintext:username filetype:logallintext:username filetype:log This will find putty information including server hostnames as well as usernames. A very good starting point. ext:reg “username=*” puttyext:reg “username=*” putty To find a … Read more
To get proper directory indexing set up in a directory in your Apache webserver configuration, firstly, create a .htaccess file and paste the code below into it. Options +Indexes HeaderName HEADER.html ReadmeName FOOTER.html IndexIgnore .htaccess .??* *~ *# HEADER* FOOTER* README* RCS CVS *,v *,t *.incOptions +Indexes HeaderName HEADER.html ReadmeName FOOTER.html IndexIgnore .htaccess … Read more
I have just installed the Windows 10 15025 build and the bash shell. I have to say that it works way better than earlier versions. The apt update and the apt upgrade commands worked straight away. And ping works now. The networking is greatly improved. This is a good asset to the Windows 10 desktop … Read more
Here I am using the watch ‘tail access.log’ command to watch the access log file for the Apache web server. This will update every two seconds and show changes to the logfile when someone accesses the server. Every 2.0s: tail access.log Tue Jul 2 10:26:04 2013 77.78.106.75 – – [30/Jun/2013:18:03:09 +1000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" … Read more
When managing services on OpenSuse 11.3 the best way is to use the service command. One example is to synchronize the time with an Internet time server. I have NTP setup so I can just type: service ntp restartservice ntp restart That command will restart the NTP daemon and set the time on your machine … Read more