This article demonstrates how to crack a wireless network using the AirCrack-NG suite. Note that this will only work with WPA/WPA2 PSK wireless networks. That’s the limits of this generation of the AirCrack-NG suite. Only do this on a network that you own or are responsible for and have permission
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This article demonstrates how to install Wireguard on CentOS 7. This is part one, the “Server Side”. Install the packages: yum install epel-release elrepo-release yum install kmod-wireguard wireguard-tools Execute the following commands to generate the keys: cd /etc/wireguard wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey The above
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This article is quick walk-through explaining how to install Bitwarden on Fedora 32 but should work on CentOS 7 and 8 as well as RHEL. Install the docker packages: yum install docker docker-compose systemctl enable docker systemctl restart docker Download the Bitwarden scripts: curl -Lso bitwarden.sh https://go.btwrdn.co/bw-sh chmod +x bitwarden.sh
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This article shows how to install and run Nmap using the Vulscan add-on to do vulnerability assessments. Download Nmap: yum install nmap Install the Vulscan.nse script: /usr/share/nmap git clone https://github.com/scipag/vulscan vulscan Run a scan targeting the machine (in this example) “192.168.4.250”: nmap -sV –script vulscan/vulscan.nse 192.168.4.250 My output looks like
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This article shows how to install and run Nmap using the Vulners script to do vulnerability assessments. Download Nmap: yum install nmap Install the Vulners.nse script: /usr/share/nmap wget https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/scripts/vulners.nse Run a scan targetting the machine (in this example) “192.168.4.250”: nmap -sV –script vulners.nse 192.168.4.250 My output looks like this: 22/tcp
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When all goes bad and you can’t get to the web interface of your Netgate pfSense, you’ll have no option but to try using the CLI (command line). This happened to me recently and this article explains what i did to recover. A few worthy points: The pfSense configuration file
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Watch our video tutorial series on setting up your pfSense firewall appliance. We cover VLANs, DHCP, Captive Portals, OpenVPN, IDS/IPS, Transparent Proxy and backups. Watch the introduction video that provides some context to the following series of mini projects. Learn how to create and manage VLAN. We work through
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This article demonstrates how to install and configured FreeRadius for basic authentication. By “basic authentication”, I mean we’re going to configure local users in clear text. This is the simplest way to configure FreeRadius. We’re installing this on CentOS 8. Install the software: yum install freeradius freeradius-utils Add the client
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If you get the error message “sql_exec_internal: sqlite3_step failed: database disk image is malformed” preventing you from starting or logging into OpenVAS, this article should help. The issue may have been caused by an unexpected power-down, but whatever caused it, the DB is corrupt. Not that this is the same
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The article I’ve linked to below wasn’t written by me but is something worth noting for when things go wrong with your pfSense. My only thoughts to complement this article is to use Linux with the “minicom” command line tool to gain access to the pfSense firewall (using a USB
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