Sometimes, it’s a bit of a pain to work with RedHat Enterprise Linux. I’ve been developing a solution with a co-worker that will allow you to convert a RHEL 6.9 box to a CentOS 6.9 box. So here you have […]
I have a script that I use to determine some quick stats on a server. The script is called ‘sup.sh’. I’ll post it here for your enjoyment, entertainment, and possible usage. #!/bin/bash { IFS=$’\n’ ### PULL THE SYSTEM INFORMATION ### […]
Over the past few months, I’ve been collecting databases of hacked accounts. I’ve already gone into some depth as to why (password audits), so I won’t go over that here. But it’s been interesting carefully working through how to pull […]
This past week was our first HackWest conference. On Wednesday and Thursday, there were a number of all-day events, some of which went both days. Friday, we had the keynotes and talks throughout the day, along with villages and other […]
One way to mitigate man-in-the-middle (or mitm for short) attacks is to set up static arp tables. I’d like to show you how this is done both in CentOS and Ubuntu. Adding By Hand (CentOS & Ubuntu) To add a […]
First off, take a look at my post from yesterday. I was given to understand that DISTINCT is not case-sensitive. The issue at hand actually has less to do with DISTINCT itself, and more to do with the character set […]
If you’ve ever used DISTINCT in a mysql query, you’ll want to pay very close attention to what I am going to say next. It is not case-sensitive. “This” and “this” are equal, and it will only return one of […]
Man, this server screams. I’ve been able to do in a week on the new server what it took two months to do on the old one. In the old server, I had about 1.7 Billion records. I’ve moved those […]
Wow, there have been a lot of breaches. I’ve been processing data from the Breach Compilation database. As I’ve been doing that, I have also been finding, researching, and downloading others. 320 Million here, 100 Million there. So far, I […]
