Tag Archives: LinkedIn
Kill paste-with-formatting to death
Being a Security Consultant (not a fan of the word consultant, but alas) is pretty much synonym to being a technical writer, which means I spend a lot of my time in a word processor. One of my (many) annoyances … Continue reading
Nmap5 cheatsheet
A. Ramos from the Spanish security blog www.securitybydefault.com posted a nice Nmap5 cheatsheet on the SecurityFocus pen-test mailing list. Webbased version of his email can be found here. Or go straight to his blog article. You can download the PDF … Continue reading
Call for Papers BruCON.v2 2010: Hacking for B33r
Another year a second interation of the BruCon event. A call for papers has been issued as can be read below. Check out the slides and video for the 2009 event here for inspiration —- Brussels, Belgium — This is … Continue reading
Speedtest.edpnet.be Bash script
This script is for people using the Belgium provider EDPnet. I wrote it to get a couple of weeks worth of download speed data, because my download speed regulary drops dramatically. The script is meant to be run in the … Continue reading
Skimming magnetic strip debit cards in the Netherlands
Last night I watched the Dutch crime show “Opsporing Verzocht” (rough translation: wanted). They showed how easy it watch to skim debit cards by placing a magnetic card copier to copy the card and a little camera to capture the … Continue reading
Script for scanning Windows Vista to determine which Service Packs have been installed
I needed a way to check which Security patches were installed on Windows Vista machines. Now on XP I used to use the command wmic qfe list , but the problem with this command is that it was never any … Continue reading
Bash script to find the occurrences of MS KB patch# in a file
The script below can be used to check if certain patches, listed in one column in a file “B” occur in file “A”. This script can be used to process the output of the script in the previous post: Script … Continue reading
Scanning for SSL-hosts and automatic downloading of SSL-certificates
Save the below script, for instance as get-cert-info.sh, make it executable and do: $ ./get-cert-info.sh ips-domains.txt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 … Continue reading
Create encrypted and password protected zip archives on Mac OS X
Today I wanted to sent a password encrypted file to a Windows user and obviously the first thing that comes to mind is a password protected zip file. So I set out to create such an archive only to discover … Continue reading
Funny Security Frameworks
I did a [Google search on Security Frameworks](http://www.google.com/search?ls=en-us&q=Security+Frameworks&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 “Security Frameworks”). The first hit I got was to this PDF: [Security Frameworks](http://www.hackerz.ir/e-books/127%20Security%20Frameworks.pdf “Security Frameworks”). And since I linked to it here, I’m helping to keep it high on the search list. … Continue reading