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This article demonstrates how to mount “https://live.sysinternals.com/tools” on Linux so that it’s accessible at “/mnt/sysinternals”, for example. On CentOS: yum install davfs2 On Ubuntu: apt install davfs2 Mount it: mount -t davfs https://live.sysinternals.com/tools /mnt/sysinternals Now you can access it at: # ls /mnt/sysinternals/ accesschk64.exe diskext.exe pipelist.exe RegDelNull.exe accesschk.exe Diskmon.exe PORTMON.CNT
Read moreEverything 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 moreThis 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 Hydra: Ubuntu: apt install hydra Cewl: Ubuntu: apt
Read moreThis 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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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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This article demonstrates how to configure Fail2Ban to use a MySQL (or MariaDB, etc) as the storage repository for IP blocking records. This allow multiple Fail2Ban services (running on multiple servers) to report and use a central IP blocking repository. A little context. In this article, we’re installing everything on
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This article describes how to protect your Apache web server by restricting which countries can access it. We’re using Apache on CentOS 7 but Ubuntu instructions are included and are very similar. I’ve given two examples; one on whitelisting everything except what we want to block, and blacklisting everything except
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This article explains how to solve the issue of FreeRADIUS certificates expiring. In this example, we’re using CentOS 7 but the same should work on any Linux provided the paths are the same. The following commend errors due to a certificate expiring. systemctl restart freeradius SO we need to re-generate
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Your Git repo doesn’t need to be on Bitbucket or Github. You can very easily host a repository on your own systems. This article demonstrates this. We’re using CentOS here but any Linux OS should work. You just need the “git” package. As always, we’d love to read your comments.
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This article demonstrates how to use Fail2Ban to block IP addresses attempting to compromise a WordPress instance via the login process. In this walk-through, we’re using CentOS 7 and FirewallD. Just be aware that if you’re using a caching service like CloudFlare, you can’t use this method because you’ll block
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