cURL: Using curl to Test Authentication on a Website
cURL is an incredibly useful tool. This article is going to focus on using it to POST authentication data to a website, such as a pfSense or Joomla instance.
Author: Bailey Kasin
I build virtual environments and challenges for Cybersecurity students to complete as a way to gain experience before graduating and entering the workforce.
Ubuntu: Change from 32 Bit to 64 Bit (Mostly)
Tested on Ubuntu 16.04. Here are the commands, life story and explanation is below: echo foreign-architecture amd64 | tee /etc/dpkg/dpkgcfgd/multiarch dpkg --add-architecture amd64 apt update apt install linux-image-4.15.0-50:amd64 apt install gcc-multilib apt upgrade (Reboot, make sure you boot on to the new kernel), and then set sources.list to only have amd64 (Put [ arch=amd64 ]
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Firewalls: How to setup a basic firewall using UFW, iptables, nftables, or firewalld
This article will be covering how to setup a basic firewall using each of the four main methods of doing so. I’ll leave covering advanced stuff to James, as he’s been somewhat obsessed with learning the complicated aspects of firewalls recently, but the basic are also important. UFW I’ll start with the simplest one. UFW
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oVirt: How to Create an Internal Network
By internal network, I mean a network that does not correspond to a physical NIC. It exists purely to allow VMs to communicate with each other. On the oVirt Node With that said, let’s begin. oVirt requires that all networks, even internal ones, correspond to a NIC. So step one is to make the host
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Please for the Love of Whatever Deity You May Believe in, Don’t Use yaourt
yaourt is an AUR helper, which is a short way of saying that it is a tool to help with installation and dependency management when installing packages from the Arch User Repository. It is also commonly recommended in guides about starting out on Arch or Manjaro, since it used to be default on Manjaro before
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How to Setup a Basic ELK Stack on Arch linux
ELK (or Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is a set of three technologies by elastic that can be combined to collect and visualize log data. Think of it as rsyslog on steroids and with pretty colors. First off, this guide is written using examples from an Arch Linux host. Theoretically, you should be able to follow
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Useful Bash One-liners
Below is a collection of useful Bash one-liners that we have come across and use semi-often (or at least often enough to not want to lose them). Honestly we mostly made this just in case we need them again and have lost them elsewhere, but hopefully they end up helping some of you as well!
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Alpine: Installing Filebeat
Filebeat is the tool used to forward logs from a client to an ELK server. It can be seen as equivalent to using rsyslog to forward to a syslog server. I’ve recently finished setting up an ELK server at Rob and I’s apartment, and have been setting VM’s that we run to forward their logs
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Alpine: How to Install ovirt-guest-agent on Alpine Linux
As-simple-as-I-can-manage instructions on how to install the ovirt-guest-agent in an Alpine Linux VM,
Debian: How to Install ovirt-guest-agent on Debian 9
The ovirt-guest-agent package is currently broken on Debian 9, and possibly older versions. The package will install successfully but then fail to start until a few extra steps are taken. I have not confirmed if this will work for Debian 8 and earlier. If you start the tools, and then get a systemctl status like
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