To secure your WIFI from attack, the best way, apart from a very secure Pre Shared Key is to disable WPS. This will really ensure that your network is safe from automated cracking tools. The WPS pixie attack is very effective at retrieving the PSK of a network that you would think was safe from … Read more
How to use noclobber with the tcsh shell on UNIX and Linux This example using the set noclobber command prevents existing files from being overwritten. 2:04am ubuntu /home/ubuntu ~> set noclobber2:04am ubuntu /home/ubuntu ~> set noclobber Now if I try to redirect to the file, this happens. 2:04am ubuntu /home/ubuntu ~> echo "" > chan.c … Read more
To start a Wireless interface in monitor mode, use this command. This will create a new interface that we may use to attempt to crack a wireless WPA2 network. ┌─[root@parrot]─[/home/user] └──╼ #airmon-ng start wlan1 Found 2 processes that could cause trouble. If airodump-ng, aireplay-ng or airtun-ng stops working after a short period of time, … Read more
To setup an SSH login on your Linux machine that does not require a password and uses SSH host keys instead, follow this simple guide. Firstly, generate a set of keys for your SSH login. ubuntu ~/Documents $ ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_rsa): /home/ubuntu/Documents/id_rsa Enter … Read more
The wpscan utility may be used to brute force a WordPress password very easily. But firstly, we need the WordPress username. Get it like this. Using Nmap. As Nmap supports user enumeration for WordPress, this is easy. ubuntu ~ $ nmap -sV –script http-wordpress-enum –script-args limit=195 somewordpresssite.com Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at … Read more
The nmap -A -P0 command line will scan a host and get information about the host and what is running on it. Press j whilst the scan is running to print statistics about the progress of the scan. Press it again to update it. ┌─[root@parrot]─[/home/user] └──╼ #nmap -A -P0 202.146.215.17 Starting Nmap 7.50 ( … Read more
There is a good version of Ubuntu for Chinese customers. Ubuntu Kylin is customized especially for China with custom applications installed that are specifically designed for use in China. Give this a try if you wish to have an alternative to Windows on your desktop or laptop machine. Download Ubuntu Kylin: https://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-kylin. Ubuntu Kylin website: … Read more
How to capture packets from a network with tcpdump and get an FTP login password. I used this tcpdump command line to capture packets traveling over my network, this was intended to capture an FTP login. I am using an Anonymous login as a example, but there is still a password involved. This way, I … Read more
How I fixed an external hard drive that was not cleanly unmounted in Windows. This simple Linux utility is very good to fix filesystem problems.
Very nice Linux Mint MATE themes. There are some nice MATE themes in this archive for Ubuntu, that will work with any Linux distribution using the MATE desktop. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/ubuntu-mate-artwork_16.04.7.tar.xz. This is a very nice theme for your desktop indeed. Just extract the themes in the archive to your ~/.themes directory. Macbuntu theme for Linux Mint … Read more
Listing of current 4chan /g/ threads I have developed a simple PHP script. This one will list all current threads on the 4chan /g/ technology board. I guess this could be interesting to someone who wants to know what current threads are up, but does not have the time to go and browse the whole … Read more