If you’re in a situation where you can’t log into Confluence because you messed up your User Directories, try these two steps. First, attempt to log in locally. If that doesn’t work, diddle with the database and reset the state of your User Directories. In this article, we’re assuming the
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IPSec Site-to-Site VPN between Unifi and pfSense
In this article, we’re assuming we have multiple sites (remote offices) using Unifi networking gear, and a central network (in Azure or AWS for example) running pfSense as the firewall. We want an IPSec site-to-site VPN between them in a spoke topology. The Unifi networks will connect to the pfSense
Read moreUpgrade MariaDB to 10.3 on CentOS 7
Everything you see here is found more formally at “https://mariadb.com/docs/operations/upgrades/upgrade-community-server-cs103-centos7/”. This page is basically just my notes in case I can’t find the other site when I need it in future. We’re using CentOS 7 and upgrading from “MariaDB 5.5” to “MariaDB 10.3”. Backup your DB and config files first.
Read morePen Testing Tools – Stuff we all need
This article is mostly a cheat sheet for things pen-testers need. Obviously there’s a little picking and choosing depending on the need. Nmap: Ubuntu: apt install nmap CentOS: yum install nmap Nikto: Ubuntu: apt install nikto CentOS: yum install nikto Mimikatz: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mimikatz.mirror/files/latest/download Unzip: Ubuntu: apt install unzip CentOS: yum install
Read moreCreate, List, Copy and Delete Windows Shadow Copy (VSS) on Windows 10
This article lists the PowerShell (and other) commands to create, list, copy from, and delete Windows Shadow Copies, also known as VSS. See Microsoft’s doco here “https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/vssadmin”. Enable: Enable-ComputerRestore -Drive “C:\” Create: wmic shadowcopy call create Volume=”C:\” List: vssadmin list shadows Copy from: Windows Explorer: Right Click a folder, Select
Read moreYou Don’t Need a Vulnerability Scanner, Use Nmap & Metasploit
This article walks you through the process of installing, configuring and running scans using Metasploit and Nmap. Both CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 20.04 are discussed. Our objective is to be able to run nmap scans and have the results go into a database so we can filter the results later
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Create Your Own Public Half-Life 2 DM Server on CentOS 7/8
This article walks you through the process of building your own publicly accessible Half-Life 2 Death Match server on CentOS 7 and should work with 8 too but that’s untested. There’s plenty that can go wrong in this process. See the bottom of this article for common problems and solutions.
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Get and Crack Windows Cached Credentials
This article explains how to extract various Windows dumps of passwords from a target system. To follow along with this article, you’ll need to have administrative access to the target Windows machine, and any endpoint security will need to be tolerant of your activities. Any good AV will likely prevent
Read moreOpen letter in response to Strengthening Australia’s cyber security regulations and incentives.
Recently the Australian Government, through the Minister for Home Affairs and the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology put out a request for participation in an open discussion relating to “strengthening Australia’s cyber security regulations and incentives”. This article is my view on how we can respond effectively. You can
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Windows 10 Post Install Setup
We don’t tend to install Windows very often these days. It seems to be far more stable than the old days and it mostly just works. But from time to time we do need to install it fresh and there’s a list of things we need to do to make
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