Damn Vulnerable Web App is a PHP web application that is deliberately vulnerable. This is used to learn how to attack websites by exploiting various vulnerabilities in the software. In this example, I am showing you how to use an SQL injection attack to get information out of the database. This line of code will … Read more
How to build a kernel on Linux from a vanilla tarball Further reading, how to compile a vanilla kernel on Debian Linux. http://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/how-to-build-a-4-8-4-linux-kernel-on-ubuntu-16-10/. This guide will really help out a Linux user to install a kernel from source.
The loopback address of the network interface, usually 127.0.0.1, is the address used by the operating system to access the network interface itself. This is represented in IPv6 as 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:/128 or ::1/128 when compressed. This gives the computer user a way to ping a network interface and verify that it is actually working. The ping6 … Read more
The find command is very useful for locating files on your Linux filesystem. Below is an example of wildcards to locate files in the /boot directory. ubuntu@ip-172-31-20-16:~$ sudo find /boot -name "vm*" /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-44-genericubuntu@ip-172-31-20-16:~$ sudo find /boot -name "vm*" /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-44-generic Here I am searching the whole / filesystem for a set of files that end in … Read more
Below is a snippet of output from my Kali Linux session. I am trying to recover files from a USB thumb drive and I am having some success. root@kali:/home/root/Desktop/files# foremost /dev/sdb1 -v -o /home/root/Desktop/files/ Foremost version 1.5.7 by Jesse Kornblum, Kris Kendall, and Nick Mikus Audit File Foremost started at Thu Mar 12 11:12:06 … Read more
Firstly, for the purposes of this exercise, we are creating a new user with a simple password. I used a user named “vaas” and gave him the simple password “password”. Then run this command to create the file that john the ripper will be using. ubuntu@ip-172-31-20-16:~$ sudo unshadow /etc/passwd /etc/shadow > pass.outubuntu@ip-172-31-20-16:~$ sudo unshadow /etc/passwd … Read more
I wanted to update my Ubuntu 14.04 server and I saw this output. I needed to remove these unwanted packages on my system. ubuntu@ip-172-31-20-16:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Calculating upgrade… Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libdigest-hmac-perl libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 … Read more
The jp2a package for Ubuntu will convert a jpeg image into an ascii text representation. This is useful for creating useful ascii images to post on the Internet. Install it by typing: sudo apt-get install jp2a and then convert an image this way. ~$ jp2a myimage.jpg~$ jp2a myimage.jpg This will output ascii text to the … Read more
The sudo lastb command will list all recently logged in users on your Linux system. This is a useful tool on a server. jason@eyjafjallajkull:~$ sudo lastb jason :0 :0 Thu Jan 8 12:41 – 12:41 (00:00) jason :0 :0 Mon Jan 5 11:42 – 11:42 (00:00) jason :0 :0 Mon Jan 5 11:42 – 11:42 … Read more
This command will print out the model and make of your graphics card. This is another command to run on an unknown computer to see what hardware is in it. jason@eyjafjallajkull:~$ lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12 | head -n 1 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon … Read more
This code will pick a random word from the x[] array and include it in the printed string. This program will also get your current Linux username to customize the output. I am sure this code would be very useful to someone who wants to know how to handle arrays in C. #include <stdio.h> #include … Read more
Formatting a partition in Linux is very easy when you use the mkfs command. In this example I am formatting a 35 gigabyte partition with an EXT4 file-system. I am intending to try out a Linux From Scratch build and I want to have a dedicated partition to build this on. jason@eyjafjallajkull:~/Documents$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2 … Read more
This is a laptop in Arma 3 that can be placed as an in-game decoration. This is running Linux! Apparently the military dumped Windows after the collapse of Microsoft in 2035. This is a good sign. Linux would be better and more reliable in the field compared to Windows anyway. I wonder what kernel version … Read more
This code will print the contents of a file to the terminal. Feel free to use this in your own projects if you wish. #include <stdio.h> #define MEM "/proc/diskstats" int main (void) { FILE *g; char Meminfo[40]; g = fopen(MEM, "r"); if(!g) { printf ("Sorry, I cannot open: %s.\n", MEM); } else … Read more
Deleting a directory on Linux is very easy indeed. The rmdir command will perform this task adequately. You could also use the rm -rf abc/ command to delete a directory, but rmdir is easier to remember. eyjafjallajkull% rmdir abceyjafjallajkull% rmdir abc The rmdir command will not be able to delete a directory that is not … Read more
This code that I found: http://paste.scratchbook.ch/view/6f74b58f can run on a Linux machine and open a port invisibly. This allows access to a Linux server without the process showing in process manager and on a port scan of the machine. This might be controversial thing to post on a Linux focused website, but this might be … Read more
This function will allow your computer to speak. function shellspeak() { mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$(echo $@ | sed ‘s/\s/+/’)" > /dev/null 2>&1; }function shellspeak() { mplayer "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$(echo $@ | sed ‘s/\s/+/’)" > /dev/null 2>&1; } A script that will change all files in a directory to lowercase filenames. function lowercase() # move filenames to lowercase. { for … Read more
The shutdown command for Linux and UNIX is used to shutdown your Linux system properly. This command will bring down the system immediately. shutdown -h nowshutdown -h now This will shut down the system in 60 minutes. shutdown -h +60shutdown -h +60 Use this command to reboot the computer immediately. shutdown -r nowshutdown -r now … Read more
This is a sighting of Ubuntu on American ABC news in a sensationalist segment about “terrorist hackers on steroids.” They are showing the Ubuntu Ambience theme to show that all terrorist hackers use Linux. This is sensationalist journalism, like all mainstream news, but is an interesting screenshot though.
To open a new virtual terminal to enter commands, use the Ctrl-Alt-F2 key combination and enter your username and password. This is a virtual terminal where you can control your system with a distraction free full-screen terminal. There are key combinations to switch between virtual terminals, read more here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/virtual-terminals.html. To get a version of … Read more