computers Hack The Box: Precious Initial Enumeration A simple NMAP scan to just get the lay of the land initially. Only two ports appear to be open. SSH appears to allow for password auth, and the web port hosts a page that allegedly converts pages to PDFs. Brute forcing additional pages on the web server
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computers Previse NMAP shows that ports 80 and 22 are open. The site at port 80 is a login page to a File Storage site. Running GoBuster against the site reveals several additional pages that although they redirect back to the main login page, do indeed have content as well. Specifically: * accounts.
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computers Unattended Install: virtualbox-ext-pack On 30 September 2019, Ubuntu updated the virtualbox-ext-pack package to no longer auto-accept the EULA in order to align with legal requirements and their desire to be very clear about non-open-source software installed through their repositories. Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-ext-pack/+bug/1844654 As such, attempting to
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computers pfSense Insights This post will be updated as I find out interesting tidbits while working with my pfSense. Usually this will be getting something in the house to work as expected with out opening up the firewall to everything. Amazon Shopping App UPDATE: The solution listed below no longer works. The Amazon
computers Verifying Slack Slash Commands in Google Cloud Functions Recently Slack moved from using "Validation Tokens" to validate that Slash Command requests were actually from Slack to signing the requests with a "Client Signing Secret". This seems like a simple change but turned out to be a huge pain in the butt to figure out. This problem stumped me
computers SANS Holiday Hack 2018 I have to be honest, life is just too busy this year for me to actually write a full report in the context of the story. Suffice it to say, I really enjoyed this year's challenge, much better than last year in terms of not having to actually play games.
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computers Reducing Image Sizes For Entire Blog I am lazy and when I add photos to this blog I do not do ANY resizing or adjustments. Well, over time, I have realized that having multiple multi-Megabyte size images on a page is not great for load speeds. So I looked for a way to reduce all of
computers theHarvester For Open Source Recon I was using theHarvester the other day and had to do a little extra work to get the data I wanted out of the results. There are plenty of posts out there about how excatly to use theHarvester so I am not covering that. The current version from theHarvester GitHub
computers InsightVM (Nexpose) Slack Bot Link to the repo at the bottom... Precursor to this post: https://ratil.life/slackbots-for-fun-and-profit/ [https://ratil.life/slackbots-for-fun-and-profit/] A few months back I decided to find a way to lighten the load of ad hoc vulnerability scanning requests by our system owners. One of our biggest time sucks was
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computers Testing With Python: First-Timer Perspective Certainly nothing groundbreaking here, just my experience diving into the world of code testing. Code Testing Any book, blog, or article about software development is going to tell you that you should always write tests for your code. Even more so, you should write the tests before you ever even
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