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A long time ago, I created a database to hold passwords and their respective hashes for some 16 various hash types. It has approximately 310,261,848 passwords for each type and is growing nearly every day as more password lists become available. I found a pretty quick way to generate the hashes for these wordlists and […]
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Some of the posts I am seeing on the internet regarding the wordpress password crack via botnet is pretty funny as various people offer suggestions to fix the problem. The quickest fix is simple and although it protects the wp-admin page, it wont protect you from the inbound traffic or sql injection.
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I am all about performance and speed. I even go so far as to test various ways of doing things in bash (or other programming languages) to optimize the code so it runs faster or more efficiently. I optimize services in the same matter. With my fairly new laptop, it has one of the hybrid […]
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bbswitch is not compatible with the kernel included with kali linux. The easiest fix is simply to upgrade to kernel 3.8.5 from debian experimental to fix this issue: Basically I downloaded these packages manually: [codesyntax lang=”bash”] initramfs-tools_0.110_all.deb linux-headers-3.8-trunk-all-amd64_3.8.5-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb linux-headers-3.8-trunk-amd64_3.8.5-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb linux-headers-3.8-trunk-common_3.8.5-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb linux-headers-3.8-trunk-common-rt_3.8.5-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb linux-headers-3.8-trunk-rt-amd64_3.8.5-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb linux-image-3.8-trunk-amd64_3.8.5-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb linux-kbuild-3.8_3.8.2-1~experimental.1_amd64.deb [/codesyntax] Then installed them: [codesyntax lang=”bash”] sudo dpkg -i *.deb [/codesyntax] […]
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So one thing you learn pretty quick once you move into the cloud, is that what you normally would do to stop bots, rogue traffic, hackers, etc doesn’t quit work…even at the packet level. What I mean is this, you have a web server sitting behind an aws load balancer and its under attack. You […]
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As I use nginx more and more, one of the things I miss is being able to see who is connecting to the server and the request they are making. This is often helpful in determining attacks. So, I basically wrote this script which does it. [codesyntax lang=”bash”] #!/bin/bash # By Ed Wiget # This […]
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This was tested on centos 6.3. It is running at approx 900 – 3,000+ log events per second from approx 30 hosts. Current load is about 900 messages per second: load average: 1.57, 1.35, 1.29 with 8GB memory. With the above in mind, there was approx 165GB of log data after running for 4 days. […]
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My desktop computer is a couple of years old. It serves me well for what I do. I just got a new laptop. In terms of hardware, the laptop is much different. The desktop is a quad-core AMD 900 series with an ATI 4500 series gpu running backtrack 5r3. It has 8GB of memory and […]
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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 […]
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I spent a considerable amount of time getting this to work. None of the tutorials online worked. What I found was so simple….but this had happened a long time ago and I just tried it. For cuda to work, you have to have the /dev/nvidia* devices. However, just because you have 1 nvidia card doesn’t […]