To say that this is a bit of a pain is somewhat understating the problem (though, no worse than formatting a WordPress article). The latest versions of Kali (including the just released kali-rolling) do not have functionality with gnome over VNC. Given this, you’ll have to install an alternate window Read more…
In working through some activities inside Kali 2.0 I came up with a bit of a problem. I really needed to have a second browser in addition to the default Iceweasel installation. I searched around the net for a while attempting to find ways to do this. In general, they Read more…
One thing has remained consistent over the past several years with respect to passwords: insecurity. Statistically, they're liable to be guessed, stolen, or cracked, sometimes with shocking speed. The advent of what could be termed as digital cryptographic dictionaries like rainbow tables and other tools, like hashcat, have made passwords less Read more…
Final Update: I thought I would post one more update to this, as of the middle of April 2015 an analysis of the same malware indicated almost all AV instances picking it up and identifying it as a Cryptowall variant. In addition, it should be noted that after I contact Read more…
Let me start of by defining what TrueCrypt is. TrueCrypt is a piece of software that has been developed to allow fairly advanced file and disk encryption operations across a wide variety of systems and media. The beauty of TrueCrypt is that it could go, and be used, almost anywhere. Read more…
A while ago I had put together a quick script to check files in a web directory for possible web shells. I was in a training class and looking for my information on this last week and it seems I've lost it. As such, it's time to put it up again Read more…
FindMyHash is a great utility for checking hashes across various sites for pre-determined hash values, accepting both single hashes and hash files with support for a large variety of hash types (MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, RMD160, LM, NTLM, MYSQL, CISCO7 or JUNIPER). Unfortunately, the native tool doesn't currently offer the Read more…