Jun 242016
 

I hate when an application gets updated and then you have to remember how to make settings work that already worked previously.  So I am making this post as a reminder since it seems to not be a lot of info about it online.  If you don’t want to send things you delete to trash, which then requires you to go empty trash for it to really be deleted ….. then add a “Delete Permanently” to your right-click menu items.

Pretty simple to do …. just follow these steps:

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Oct 272013
 

This is a really simple fix which will block the user enumeration on a wordpress site (like the method by wpscan).

Before I get into this, I am very well aware of the IfIsEvil page on nginx wiki.  But it also says on this page, “The only 100% safe things which may be done inside if in location context are:  return and rewrite as the last statement in a location block”  With that in mind, we are going to use ONLY rewrite as the last statement in our location block.

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Feb 092013
 

One thing I can’t stand is waiting on software to download.  I mean, I have a blazingly fast internet connection and I expect everything I do to be blazingly fast also.  So, one thing I noticed was my backbox linux installation was taking forever to download updates.  Looking into why, I noticed there were static addresses used in the /etc/apt/sources.list for ubuntu software repositories.

So here is how to fix it so that you always get the mirror closest to you:

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May 212012
 

The error:
svn: /opt/metasploit/common/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by /opt/metasploit/common/lib/libserf-0.so.0)
svn: /opt/metasploit/common/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by /opt/metasploit/common/lib/libserf-0.so.0)

The Fix:
Open terminal and enter these lines:

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Feb 202012
 

If you run fix-splash on a backtrack installation and get:

$ sudo fix-splash
[*] Fixing Initrd
[*] Extracting Initrd
181100 blocks
cpio: File ./initrd grew, 46361600 new bytes not copied
181100 blocks
[*] Reboot and bask in the joys of BootSplash

The fix is really simple…..

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Jan 262012
 
#!/bin/bash
 
# By Ed Wiget
# This fixes dropbox sync issues on linux
 
# get a list of files executable now
find ~/Dropbox -type f -perm -u+x > /tmp/dropbox_files-`date +%Y%m%d`
 
# fix the permissions
sudo chown -R $USER ~/Dropbox
sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.dropbox
sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/.dropbox
 
# remove any conflicting files from the file list above step 1
grep -v -e "conflicted copy" -e "Case Conflict" /tmp/dropbox_files-`date +%Y%m%d` > /tmp/dropbox_files-`date +%Y%m%d`.txt
# set the executable permissions back
for files in `echo /tmp/dropbox_files-\`date +%Y%m%d\`.txt` ; do chmod u+x "${files}" ; done
 
# remove any files that are in conflict
find ~/Dropbox -type f -name \*"conflicted copy"\* -exec rm -f "{}" \;
find ~/Dropbox -type f -name \*"Case Conflict"\* -exec rm -f "{}" \;
 
# remove temp files
rm -f /tmp/dropbox_files-`date +%Y%m%d`
rm -f /tmp/dropbox_files-`date +%Y%m%d`.txt
Sometimes you will run into an issue where you have multiple computers that mysteriously stop syncing with dropbox. What I have found is it is almost always caused by 1 of 2 things……file permissions, conflicts. I have 8 devices syncing to my dropbox, and every single one of them are linux except for one. It seems as though anytime I use my sole Windows computer to add something to dropbox….the others mess up. I suspect an issue with linux file permissions and windows ntfs drives.

Anyways, this script will fix the problems. Make sure you adjust the path if your linux install does not have dropbox at ~/Dropbox.

Aug 242011
 

Thought I would share this quick fix ref CVE-2011-3192 with the POC available here:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/175

First, if you are an apache admin, get this fixed ASAP. I was able to take down a small test server with 7 http get requests.

Login to the server and run this command to see if you have mod_headers installed:

locate mod_headers

If you see mod_headers.so in that list, you can continue to Configuring Apache.  Otherwise go to Compiling Mod_Headers

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