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Log Parsing Script for Shell Shock
The released script will take a given log directory, normally your website log directory, and search it for attempts to exploit the server using the recently released GNU Bourne Again Shell (bash)...
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FindMyHash Output Capture Script Hash Brown
FindMyHash is a great utility for checking hashes across various sites for pre-determined hash values, accepting both single hashes and hash files with support for a large variety of hash types (MD4,...
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Check if Linux Needs a Reboot
One of the best parts of a Linux OS is that you can often patch on the fly without a need for reboot afterwards. The only thing that does definitively need a reboot is after a kernel patch. Sometimes,...
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Locate PHP Web Shells on a Linux Web Server
A while ago I had put together a quick script to check files in a web directory for possible web shells. I was in a training class and looking for my information on this last week and it seems I've...
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How To Run A Second Browser in Kali Linux 2.0
In working through some activities inside Kali 2.0 I came up with a bit of a problem. I really needed to have a second browser in addition to the default Iceweasel installation. I searched around the...
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VNC Tunnel to Kali Linux with mRemoteNG
To say that this is a bit of a pain is somewhat understating the problem (though, no worse than formatting a WordPress article). The latest versions of Kali (including the just released kali-rolling)...
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LVM Duplicate of PV exists on unknown device
If you’re arriving at this post, clearly, things are not going well. You’ve booted up your system and wound up with some odd LVM errors (if you’ve determined that they are LVM I suppose). There’s very...
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Debian non-LVM Disk Partition Expansion No Reboot
Anyone who runs Linux servers for an extended time is bound to run into the need to expand disk space once in a while. LVM is a great tool to help with this, but, it’s the new kid on the block for...
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ELK Stack Parsing Apache Log Files
Anyone looking at log management for various reasons has probably heard the name ELK thrown around whenever the conversation turns to open source solutions. This stack is composed of three different...
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VMware Mounting Shared Folder in Linux Guest
Anyone who’s used VMware at a desktop level for a while has likely run into the need to share a file from the guest operating system back to the host operating system. This post will cover options for...
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List Files With Found Contents in Linux
There are so many ways to slice, dice, parse, and of course search through files in Linux. This is but one of those ways. What makes this method fancy is that it we go from finding and printing...
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Resolving Kali (udev/systemd) Boot Failure (part 1)
27 JAN 19 – 13:30 UPDATE: Before going down this road, please consider part duex as a starting point. It is much simpler (in comparison) and will likely work for non LVM encrypted volumes. LVM...
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Resolving Kali (udev/systemd) Boot Failure (part duex), Easiest Method
After several more hours of searching for, and work on, solutions for this problem I’ve found one that seems to work fairly consistently. This mess of a dumpster fire is burning slightly lower this...
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ALFA AWUS036ACH External WiFi Adapter on Kali
Getting wireless units that work properly in Kali with modern feature sets seems to be a continuous challenge. I’ve had mixed results over the years with shoddy support for anything outside of vanilla...
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Ubuntu Linux Unable to Install Packages
There are many different reasons that packages may not install. Perhaps you are out of space, inodes, have permission problems, have network connectivity problems, and so on. An additional challenge...
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Forward Connection to Docker in Linux
Every now and then it is necessary to set up a connection forwarding from external to inside the system perhaps to a docker instance where the internal IP for the docker is a completely separate...
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Linux Script Error: Bad Substitution (change shell from dash to bash)
This is a simple problem in the end that cost me serious troubleshooting time. Hopefully you found this article and it can save you some of what I lost. You may encounter a problem when running a...
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Linux Disable Interface with Netplan (or not)
So, based on everything I’ve found, you can’t. In my opinion this is a shortcoming of using netplan versus the old way of simply using ifupand ifdown. This is in many ways super frustrating as it’s...
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