The following, originally written 2019-07-24, was updated on 2020-04-20 to reflect more recent security requirements. OpenSSH is one of the host heavily-trafficked tools that there is among Linux systems engineers. It is used to hop around, onto and off of […]
There are some unofficial sources of DefCon information that I have found to be super useful. For details on what is where, this one is great: DEF CON 27 – Mega Thread If you are into the badges, here’s a […]
For anyone who does patching, you know this can be ultra-tedious, especially if you have large numbers of servers. However, I have put together a script that will roll through a list of CentOS/RHEL/Fedora servers, patch them, reboot them, and […]
What can be done with data breaches? People can just change their password, and the breach becomes useless, right? Is there really any concern? First off, not every data breach contains credentials. Some, like the Experian hack, contain personally identifiable […]
While certainly not a new concept, I was thinking about the “Fork Bomb.” There are quite a few examples of doing this in different languages. This one takes all the CPUs to 100% and will essentially run the system out […]
Torrent file => 600 Million Passwords – Pre-computed Hash Table This is a list of 600 Million unique plain-text passwords collected from about 100 of the largest database dumps from about a decade ending in the summer of 2018. I […]
As you may know, I’ve been working on collecting the biggest leaked databases that I can find. Well, I stumbled upon one called “Collection #1 Leaked.” Finding the torrent, I put it into the client and began downloading it. When […]
At first, the Exploit.in dump was giving me trouble because I generated all of the SQL with Bash. Do not do this. It’s way harder to escape database-unfriendly characters. So, I just did it with PHP really quick and started […]
I’ve been doing some other things for the past year or so, but I think I’m ready to pick this back up. I have downloaded and imported all database dumps of which I am aware that have 1M or more […]
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 […]