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...
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hacking
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...
A Tale of Two PoCs or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Honeypot
The proofs of concept advertised a user-interactionless reverse shell, which was was contrary to the Microsoft advisory that clearly stated the vulnerability...
Hacking Windows 7 Professional Edition, SP2
Since taking the SANS SEC560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course earlier this summer, I’ve spent most of my time studying for the GIAC Pen...
Intrusion Detection For Windows
This morning, I was discussing with a colleague the last time I really felt like I had a handle on Windows under the hood: Windows NT. As soon as I had separ...
My “Leaderboard Syndrome” Moment
I zoomed straight in on #1 and found an episode of Shop Talk from three years ago, Special: One on One with a Hacker. About halfway through the episode, I ex...
troubleshooting
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 ...
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 ‘...
PHP Warning: require_once(Mail.php): failed to open stream
This one is pretty simple but sometimes frustrating to troubleshoot because the error below has you hunting for a file called Mail.php somewhere in your docu...
Can’t Connect to Remote MongoDB
If you have a brand new install of MongoDB on a remote server, and you’re trying to connect to it with MongoDB Compass but you keep getting the following err...
professional development
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...
Coming Back to Web Development
Back to basics
certification
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...
Hacking Windows 7 Professional Edition, SP2
Since taking the SANS SEC560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course earlier this summer, I’ve spent most of my time studying for the GIAC Pen...
security
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...
Intrusion Detection For Windows
This morning, I was discussing with a colleague the last time I really felt like I had a handle on Windows under the hood: Windows NT. As soon as I had separ...
My “Leaderboard Syndrome” Moment
I zoomed straight in on #1 and found an episode of Shop Talk from three years ago, Special: One on One with a Hacker. About halfway through the episode, I ex...
beer
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 5
Votes cast for Baltic Trader, Prince of Denmark, Gigesa Guji, and Lavender Honey
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 1
2017 marks the fourth year I have been fortunate enough to attend the Cambridge Beer Festival on Jesus Green in central Cambridge. It is my favorite annual e...
2017 Cambridge Beer Festival: Preview
This week marks my attendance to 4 consecutive Cambridge Beer Festivals on Jesus Green. Last year, 2016, was my high point as I was able to not only attend e...
Cambridge
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 5
Votes cast for Baltic Trader, Prince of Denmark, Gigesa Guji, and Lavender Honey
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 1
2017 marks the fourth year I have been fortunate enough to attend the Cambridge Beer Festival on Jesus Green in central Cambridge. It is my favorite annual e...
2017 Cambridge Beer Festival: Preview
This week marks my attendance to 4 consecutive Cambridge Beer Festivals on Jesus Green. Last year, 2016, was my high point as I was able to not only attend e...
CAMRA
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 5
Votes cast for Baltic Trader, Prince of Denmark, Gigesa Guji, and Lavender Honey
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 1
2017 marks the fourth year I have been fortunate enough to attend the Cambridge Beer Festival on Jesus Green in central Cambridge. It is my favorite annual e...
2017 Cambridge Beer Festival: Preview
This week marks my attendance to 4 consecutive Cambridge Beer Festivals on Jesus Green. Last year, 2016, was my high point as I was able to not only attend e...
festival
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 5
Votes cast for Baltic Trader, Prince of Denmark, Gigesa Guji, and Lavender Honey
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 1
2017 marks the fourth year I have been fortunate enough to attend the Cambridge Beer Festival on Jesus Green in central Cambridge. It is my favorite annual e...
2017 Cambridge Beer Festival: Preview
This week marks my attendance to 4 consecutive Cambridge Beer Festivals on Jesus Green. Last year, 2016, was my high point as I was able to not only attend e...
real ale
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 5
Votes cast for Baltic Trader, Prince of Denmark, Gigesa Guji, and Lavender Honey
The 44th Annual Cambridge Beer Festival, Day 1
2017 marks the fourth year I have been fortunate enough to attend the Cambridge Beer Festival on Jesus Green in central Cambridge. It is my favorite annual e...
2017 Cambridge Beer Festival: Preview
This week marks my attendance to 4 consecutive Cambridge Beer Festivals on Jesus Green. Last year, 2016, was my high point as I was able to not only attend e...
webdev
Trick certbot into auto-configuring Amazon Linux 2
I use Let’s Encrypt to enable SSL/TLS encryption on all my websites. Unfortunately, certbot is not as familiar with the distant relative of the Red Hat famil...
PHP Warning: require_once(Mail.php): failed to open stream
This one is pretty simple but sometimes frustrating to troubleshoot because the error below has you hunting for a file called Mail.php somewhere in your docu...
Protip: XHTML to HTML5 Inexplicable Vertical Space
If you’ve changed the DOCTYPE of an older site using XHTML to HTML5 and now your images have an inexplicable space beneath them, it’s not just you.
https
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...
Trick certbot into auto-configuring Amazon Linux 2
I use Let’s Encrypt to enable SSL/TLS encryption on all my websites. Unfortunately, certbot is not as familiar with the distant relative of the Red Hat famil...
linux
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...
Steam Crashes When Launching in Linux Mint
I recently tried to launch Steam on my Linux Mint daily driver. A window popped up to check for updates and seemed to progress normally until it crashed. The...
How to Copy a Lot of Files With rsync
In order to add a new drive to my Linux desktop for a new /home partition, I needed to copy a lot of files to an external USB drive. The directory was large ...
education
Back to top ↑prodev
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...
Coming Back to Web Development
Back to basics
firewall
Back to top ↑VMWare
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 ‘...
VMWare Workstation Isn’t Working With My Keyboard
“Further, when it does capture my keyboard it keeps repeating the same key infinitellllllllllllllllll….”
gaming
Steam Crashes When Launching in Linux Mint
I recently tried to launch Steam on my Linux Mint daily driver. A window popped up to check for updates and seemed to progress normally until it crashed. The...
information security
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...
A Tale of Two PoCs or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Honeypot
The proofs of concept advertised a user-interactionless reverse shell, which was was contrary to the Microsoft advisory that clearly stated the vulnerability...
duh
Read-Only Friday
The law of the land
development
Coming Back to Web Development
Back to basics
hiatus
Coming Back to Web Development
Back to basics
pfSense
Back to top ↑e-mail vault
Back to top ↑holiday
Back to top ↑Iceland
Back to top ↑vacation
Back to top ↑encryption
Back to top ↑iptables
Back to top ↑mistakes were made
Back to top ↑SSL
Back to top ↑TLS
Back to top ↑Synergy
VMWare Workstation Isn’t Working With My Keyboard
“Further, when it does capture my keyboard it keeps repeating the same key infinitellllllllllllllllll….”
tech
VMWare Workstation Isn’t Working With My Keyboard
“Further, when it does capture my keyboard it keeps repeating the same key infinitellllllllllllllllll….”
CEH
Back to top ↑certified ethical hacker
Back to top ↑overwatch
Back to top ↑humor
Pay No Attention to That Laughing Man Behind the Curtain
One thing I’ve always loved about the Internet are the odd bits of humanity that periodically emerge from behind the digital curtains.
stackoverflow
Pay No Attention to That Laughing Man Behind the Curtain
One thing I’ve always loved about the Internet are the odd bits of humanity that periodically emerge from behind the digital curtains.
agile
Back to top ↑certup
Back to top ↑goals
Back to top ↑self improvement
Back to top ↑leaderboard syndrome
My “Leaderboard Syndrome” Moment
I zoomed straight in on #1 and found an episode of Shop Talk from three years ago, Special: One on One with a Hacker. About halfway through the episode, I ex...
intrusion detection
Intrusion Detection For Windows
This morning, I was discussing with a colleague the last time I really felt like I had a handle on Windows under the hood: Windows NT. As soon as I had separ...
Windows
Intrusion Detection For Windows
This morning, I was discussing with a colleague the last time I really felt like I had a handle on Windows under the hood: Windows NT. As soon as I had separ...
GPEN
Hacking Windows 7 Professional Edition, SP2
Since taking the SANS SEC560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course earlier this summer, I’ve spent most of my time studying for the GIAC Pen...
penetration testing
Hacking Windows 7 Professional Edition, SP2
Since taking the SANS SEC560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course earlier this summer, I’ve spent most of my time studying for the GIAC Pen...
pentest
Hacking Windows 7 Professional Edition, SP2
Since taking the SANS SEC560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course earlier this summer, I’ve spent most of my time studying for the GIAC Pen...
SEC560
Hacking Windows 7 Professional Edition, SP2
Since taking the SANS SEC560 Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course earlier this summer, I’ve spent most of my time studying for the GIAC Pen...
databases
Can’t Connect to Remote MongoDB
If you have a brand new install of MongoDB on a remote server, and you’re trying to connect to it with MongoDB Compass but you keep getting the following err...
mongodb
Can’t Connect to Remote MongoDB
If you have a brand new install of MongoDB on a remote server, and you’re trying to connect to it with MongoDB Compass but you keep getting the following err...
rsync
How to Copy a Lot of Files With rsync
In order to add a new drive to my Linux desktop for a new /home partition, I needed to copy a lot of files to an external USB drive. The directory was large ...
PHP Warning: require_once(Mail.php): failed to open stream
This one is pretty simple but sometimes frustrating to troubleshoot because the error below has you hunting for a file called Mail.php somewhere in your docu...
php
PHP Warning: require_once(Mail.php): failed to open stream
This one is pretty simple but sometimes frustrating to troubleshoot because the error below has you hunting for a file called Mail.php somewhere in your docu...
Amazon
Trick certbot into auto-configuring Amazon Linux 2
I use Let’s Encrypt to enable SSL/TLS encryption on all my websites. Unfortunately, certbot is not as familiar with the distant relative of the Red Hat famil...
AWS
Trick certbot into auto-configuring Amazon Linux 2
I use Let’s Encrypt to enable SSL/TLS encryption on all my websites. Unfortunately, certbot is not as familiar with the distant relative of the Red Hat famil...
certbot
Trick certbot into auto-configuring Amazon Linux 2
I use Let’s Encrypt to enable SSL/TLS encryption on all my websites. Unfortunately, certbot is not as familiar with the distant relative of the Red Hat famil...
32-bit
Steam Crashes When Launching in Linux Mint
I recently tried to launch Steam on my Linux Mint daily driver. A window popped up to check for updates and seemed to progress normally until it crashed. The...
Mint
Steam Crashes When Launching in Linux Mint
I recently tried to launch Steam on my Linux Mint daily driver. A window popped up to check for updates and seemed to progress normally until it crashed. The...
Steam
Steam Crashes When Launching in Linux Mint
I recently tried to launch Steam on my Linux Mint daily driver. A window popped up to check for updates and seemed to progress normally until it crashed. The...
GPU
Steam Crashes When Launching in Linux Mint
I recently tried to launch Steam on my Linux Mint daily driver. A window popped up to check for updates and seemed to progress normally until it crashed. The...
Cards Against Humanity
“Cards Against Humanity” Remotely
I am typing this for my friends who have responded to my call on social media for a good old fashioned game of (socially distant) Cards Against Humanity. Wha...
COVID-19
“Cards Against Humanity” Remotely
I am typing this for my friends who have responded to my call on social media for a good old fashioned game of (socially distant) Cards Against Humanity. Wha...
Games
“Cards Against Humanity” Remotely
I am typing this for my friends who have responded to my call on social media for a good old fashioned game of (socially distant) Cards Against Humanity. Wha...
honeypot
A Tale of Two PoCs or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Honeypot
The proofs of concept advertised a user-interactionless reverse shell, which was was contrary to the Microsoft advisory that clearly stated the vulnerability...
infosec
A Tale of Two PoCs or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Honeypot
The proofs of concept advertised a user-interactionless reverse shell, which was was contrary to the Microsoft advisory that clearly stated the vulnerability...
proof of concept
A Tale of Two PoCs or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Honeypot
The proofs of concept advertised a user-interactionless reverse shell, which was was contrary to the Microsoft advisory that clearly stated the vulnerability...
poc
A Tale of Two PoCs or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Honeypot
The proofs of concept advertised a user-interactionless reverse shell, which was was contrary to the Microsoft advisory that clearly stated the vulnerability...
GIAC
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...
GPYC
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...
python
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...
SANS
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...
SEC573
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...
bypass
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 ...
passwords
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 ...
spreadsheet
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 ...
xlsx
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 ...
dns
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...
aws
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...
route53
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...
gitlab
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...
ssl-tls
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...
kali
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...
infrastructure
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...
Social Distance
“Cards Against Humanity” Remotely
3 minute read
I am typing this for my friends who have responded to my call on social media for a good old fashioned game of (socially distant) Cards Against Humanity. Wha...