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
stadia Stadia Firewall Rules Google was running a deal that if you bought a game on Stadia you would get a free controller and Chromecast Ultra (what they call the Premier Edition). I was excited for this as this would round out my gaming capabilities to let me game on all of my screens.
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.
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.
computers Hack The Box: Irked Irked: Retired 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. Enumeration My initial enumeration returned a handful of
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.
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
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
computers Hack The Box: DevOops DevOops: Retired 13 October 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. Been a while since I
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
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
computers Hack The Box - Bashed Bashed: Retired 28 April 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. Bashed was one of the
computers SANS SEC660 - Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploit Writing, and Ethical Hacking UPDATE: I took my exam and PASSED! I felt that the actual exam was a bit harder than the practice tests but I also get my best score out of the three. The material covered in class is great but you really have to have read the text in the
computers Hack The Box - Sense Sense: Retired 24 March 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. Sense was an easier box
computers Slackbots for Fun and Profit This is the general process/flow for creating Slack integrations, nothing groundbreaking here, just wanting to consolidate the info that I used when building bots. In the future (once I get approval) I will publish the details of a bot in Ruby and a slash command in Python. Bot/Slash
computers New NAS and Backup Strategy I finally got a NAS (Synology DS216se) for the house to keep our photos and other important files safe. I was starting to get really nervous about losing data both on the home computer and this server as well. The new NAS required a good backup strategy. I really wanted
