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…
The released script will take a given log directory, normally your website log directory, and search it for attempts to exploit the server using the recently released GNU Bourne Again Shell (bash) vulnerability also known as Shell Shock. Once it identifies these entries, it will output them into a separate Read more…
When you run a removal command in Linux with the recursive and force options enabled (rm -rf *), you don't expect to get back a failure message. After all, YOU FORCED IT! However, it just so happens that even with force, you can encounter a situation where the list of Read more…
Every now and then there arises a need to send e-mail from a command prompt. In this case, the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the desire is to have mailx send e-mail to a 3rd party, external system using a relay server. To do this, you need to Read more…
I needed to create a user, grant them super user sudo privileges, update user account passwords and expire them across a number of different servers so that the actual user could log in and be forced to change their password to a (hopefully) secure one after I was complete. Initially, Read more…
I searched for a while to come up with a method for expanding swap in an online way thinking that it might now be possible given all kinds of disk and file system advances over the past few years. It's been a little bit since I've had to do this Read more…
This set of problems was anything but a fun error to encounter, even though the fix was easy. I troubleshot this problem for the better part of 3 hours before finding the solution. Most importantly noted, is that most of the information currently on the internet was of no help and pointed in Read more…