Hackthissite.org – Basic 2 and 3
In this video, I go over the Basic mission series: Challenge 2 and 3. A basic understanding on HTML is required to complete these missions. My video below shows how to complete challenge 2 and 3.
Ethical Hacking Midterm – Fall 2018 (Mission College)
I am currently taking an Ethical Hacking course at Mission College (CIT016), taught by Micky Pandit. For our mid-term project, we had to create videos on a product and showcase how to install, configure and use it. Upon learning how easy it is to find vulnerabilities and pwn devices, our paranoia got dialed up to … Read more
Windows Subsystem for Linux – Ubuntu GUI with xfce
I’ve finally moved on from my Macbook Pro, late 2013 model and onto a Dell XPS13. I have a work-issued MBP with the touch-bar gimmick and absolutely dislike the keyboard. I decided to dual boot the device with Ubuntu 18.04 but what to do so many workarounds due to the NVMe disk in my XPS13 … Read more
HTML5 GUI management for KVM hosts
I came across this cool HTML5-based management interface for KVM hosts. Its called kimchi-project (https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/). In this guide, i’ll show you how to install it on an Ubuntu 16.04 host and manage your guest VMs. Pre-installation steps If you haven’t installed quemu, go ahead and do that now. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y … Read more
verify dhcpd.conf for syntax errors
In CentOS you can check to see if your dhcpd.conf file has any syntax errors before you restart DHCP and it fails to come up. You’ll need to run a command called dhcpd and point it to your configuration file like this: [root@dhcp-server ~]# dhcpd -t -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf If you run into any syntax … Read more
Enabling VNC for ESXi
Sometimes in home lab environments you don’t have access to resources like vCenter to look at the guest VM status via console. Fortunately, you can modify ESX to enable VNC to a guest VM and use any computer to get KVM access. Pre-requisites: Network connectivity from your client to the ESXi host Root SSH access … Read more
PI-HOLE: Adblocking for home
I’ve came across a yet another easy and cool home project that is intended for Rapsberry Pis, but can run on any flavor of Linux (Requirements here). Its called Pi-Hole and you can set it up in 5 minutes or less. Website: https://pi-hole.net/ The idea is simple: it blocks all add traffic in your network … Read more
Ubuntu ZFS Samba share
In my previous posts regarding setting up ZFS on Ubuntu 16.04, I had referred to Aaron Toponce’s website on doing additional configuration to ZFS such as sharing via NFS or SMB. In the portion for SMB here: https://pthree.org/2012/12/31/zfs-administration-part-xv-iscsi-nfs-and-samba/, it seems that there is a couple more things to do. After running zfs set sharesmb=on pool/srv and zfs share … Read more
ZFS on ubuntu 16.04
On my previous post, ZFS on Ubuntu Linux, I had setup ZFS on Ubuntu 14.04 by adding a ZFS repository, installing multiple packages and such. Now on 16.04 and 16.10, it is available by simply typing: sudo apt-get install zfs My previous post covers how to setup a ZFS Pool, creating ZIL, and sharing the … Read more
Bluetooth mystery
For quite some time i’ve been told that peoples bluetooth Mac keyboard and mouse gets disconnected intermittently. I’ve done the usual, make sure the battery is good, reset the PRAM, Reset the Bluetooth adapter via the hidden menu, but no luck. We kind of brushed it off as there is too many Macs in the … Read more