Social engineering attacks are one of the top techniques used against networks today. Why spend days, weeks or even months trying to penetrate layers of network security when you can just trick a user into running a file that allows you full access to their machine and bypasses anti-virus, firewalls and many intrusion detection systems? [...]
A quick step by step on installing the Metasploit 4 framework
DavMail is a free app that creates a reverse proxy connection to Outlook Exchange 2003 OWA webmail. You can then use the app’s local IMAP and SMTP settings to send and receive mail from Exchange 2003. DavMail works with POP, IMAP, SMTP, Caldav, Cardav and LDAP.
For some reason, changing the Mac OSX hostname isn’t as simple as changing the name in the share settings. Here is quick guide on manually changing the hostname in terminal.
An important component of preparing for a potential HIPAA compliance audit is to complete a “walk through” to make sure privacy and security policies and procedures are practical and effective.” Here is a short HIPAA Compliance Check List:
I manage several client domains and I wanted a way to centrally manage their DNS while pointing their DNS records to my custom vanity name servers: ns1.curvve.net and ns2.curvve.net. This isn’t a straight forward solution that godaddy offers, but it does work. WHOIS my domain and see for yourself.
A script to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features – Backup mutiple databases – Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB – Compress backup files – Backup remote servers – E-mail logs -
Since the G2700 ISO 27001 / 27002 certification was an open book exam, I needed a way to quickly find the material I was looking for without having to go through mounds of papers during the exam. Having a printed Index seemed like a logical solution. I tested several applications and was extremely happy with PDF Index Generator.
Great tutorial on how to spoof your mac address in Mac OSX. This works in Lion.
This guide will provide a set of links and terms to help you gather the correct information needed to pass the G2700 ISO 27001 certification exam.
A quick step-by-step guide on burning an ISO to a bootable USB drive using the native Diskutil (via the command line).
Great article which talks about getting Postgres server up and running. I installed Postgres using MacPorts, but wasn’t able to get the service up and running. There are a lot of different methods floating around the web, but this one worked and is the simplest.
You’ve probably noticed by default that all scroll bars in Lion are now invisible until required. For some this might be confusing. If you want scrollbars turned on by default, all it takes it to change a single setting.
With the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this month, Apple will no longer offer a bootable installer DVD and is making 10.7 Lion available only through the App Store. This guide provides quick instructions on how to use the OS X 10.7 Lion installer to create a bootable flash drive (instructions for making a bootable DVD are also included on the blog).
This is a great tutorial on using AJAX with jQuery. I haven’t used AJAX in a few months and this was a great all-in-one refresher.
A quick (temporary) system hack to get Panic’s Candybar working in the current OSX Lion betas.
I spent some time trying to figure out how to fix the Suexec Policy Violation error under Plesk in Centos.
I had a hard time getting Parallels 6 to load a Parallels virtual Machine in OSX Lion Beta. These few simple shell commands made everything run great.
You’ve probably got the basics of the Application Switcher down pat by now: press Command-Tab .. But, as with everything on the Mac, the Application Switcher can do more than you might guess.
This is a great tutorial on automating server to server backups using RSYNC and SSH.
Tired of trying to find out your app bundle identifiers? Here’s a quick way to find the bundle IDs and icons in iOS 4.2.1
Greenpois0n, the tool for jailbreaking your iOS devices on version 4.2.1, has been updated again, and now supports jailbreaking the second generation Apple TV. By jailbreaking the second generation Apple TV you will be able to install NitoTV without all the hassle and difficulty of using SSH and entering lines of code into terminal as [...]
I kept coming across this error when trying to update my word press blog with Mars Edit
“XML-RPC Response Parsing Failed: The operation couldn’t be completed. expected ‘>’.”
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