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Kali: Fresh Install Checklist
I have this information over in my GitLab but wanted to replicate it in a blog post here with extended commentary. As of the date this post was published (u...
Struggling with Gitlab Pages and Route 53 Domain Ownership
If you’ve been to Fort Kickass before, you’ll notice a different look. I spent the last couple weeks of nights and weekends migrating off my AWS EC2 and Wo...
How To Bypass xlsx Spreadsheet Protection
The problem you’ve encountered is you have an .xlsx file that has password-protected data inside and you need to get at that information. I encountered this ...
BloodHound: Incompatible Collector
If you’re having problems with your SharpHound output uploading to BloodHound, you may be victim of an old version/new version incompatibility.
windows-exploit-suggester.py Wont Read .xlsx Database
Problem: windows-exploit-suggester.py isn’t reading the database file generated from the --update. It claims it doesn’t support xlsx files even though I ran ...
AutoRecon Broke!
“I used Tib3rius’s AutoRecon successfully, like, a week ago but now it’s broken!” Chances are that you also recently ran an apt update && apt upgrad...
VMware Workstation: “MonitorLoop” power on failed
Are you trying to power on a virtual machine on your ESXi host and VMware Workstation is telling you, “Unable to change virtual machine power state: Module ‘...
A Belated Review of SEC573: Automating Information Security With Python
Over the 20 or so years I’ve been writing code I’d never taken a class in a language. As a web developer (PHP), software engineer (Perl), or SysAdmin (bas...