azure Broken Azure I saw this link posted on LinkedIn with a collection of free cloud training resources and decided to try my hand at some of the Azure ones given my relative lack of familiarity with Azure versus GCP and AWS. Kind of going in order, I decided to start with Secura's
computers Hack the Box: Busqueda Initial Recon Conduct typical initial portscan └─$ nmap 10.10.11.208 Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-04-26 11:13 EDT Nmap scan report for 10.10.11.208 Host is up (0.089s latency). Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (conn-refused) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open
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 Bulk Download Photos From Procare Our son's daycare/preschool uses Procare to track attendance and send info about the school including pictures of the kids during the day. As he moved to a new school for Kindergarten, we wanted to make sure that we had all his photos from the app. Too bad the app
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.
computers Return To Hack The Box - BountyHunter After a several year hiatus from Hack The Box, I decided to jump back in and take a look. Here is the write-up for Bounty Hunter BountyHunter Initial nmap scan indicates ports 22 and 80 are open. Browsing the page on port 80, there is a "Portal" section that indicates
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computers Head Against Wall: Odd Bootable USB Behavior So for work, we provision devices to send to clients using a bootable USB Ubuntu installer with a bunch of custom options and additional software. This all happens without hiccups generally...until this week, when I needed to clone the drive for someone else. After much weeping and gnashing of
cloudflare SSH Access With Cloudflare Argo and Access Although Cloudflare generally has pretty good documentation. In this specific case, the documentation is spread over multiple pages and actually just wrong in a couple spots. I am going to try to consolidate this process here. My goal here was to enable programmatic SSH access to an arbitrary number of
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
computers Verizon Wi-Fi Calling Firewall Config UPDATE: wo.vzwwo.com is an additional domain that needs to be allowed. This is short and sweet. If you want to get Verizon Wi-Fi calling enabled on a restrictive network here is what you need. UDP ports 500 & 4500 open to sg.vzwfemto.com and wo.vzwwo.com. The
computers pfSense With CenturyLink 1GB Fiber We just recently moved into a neighborhood that offers CenturyLink 1GB fiber into the house. I mistakenly though the change would be as simple as plugging in my current setup to whatever modem they provided. Turns out that is not the case and that a little more work is required.
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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.
computers Hack The Box: Jerry Jerry: Retired 17 November 2018 If you are interested in learning more about penetration testing, Hack the Box is a great way to get your feet wet in a legal and well built environment. Head over to hackthebox.eu [https://hackthebox.eu] to get started. This box was almost too
computers Holiday Theming Update: Added more to the commandline zsh config to apply specific emoji throughout the year. I have been playing around with a few theme options lately and the holidays got me in the spirit to adjust appropriately. Specifically, my command line theme and my Razer keyboard theme. Command Line After
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computers Server Migration I had a need to migrate this server to a different provider for cost reasons. This was also a good chance to document my process since I did NOT do that last time. I ended up going with Digital Ocean [https://www.digitalocean.com/].Amazon [https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/
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
computers Timestamp Keyboard Shortcut In gedit I do not know why this was such a hard problem to find a solution to given that the solution I arrived at was extremely simple. On multiple teams I work with, we have a need to take timestamped notes of our actions. Often we are operating on locked down
