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Cyber 25 Jan 2023 👁 33 views

Scan Your Local Network With Nikto and Nmap on macOS

Nikto is becoming one of my favourite tools. I like it because of its wide ranging use cases and its simplicity. So whats an example use case for Nikto? When I am bored right now and so I am going to hunt around my local network and see what I can find… Now lets pop […]

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Macbooks 14 Jan 2023 👁 36 views

How to Customize the Zsh Prompt in macOS Terminal

When you open terminal you will see that it defaults the information that you see on the prompt, which can use up quite a bit of the screen real estate. Customize the zsh Prompt in Terminal Typically, the default zsh prompt carries information like the username, machine name, and location starting in the user’s home […]

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Cyber 21 Nov 2022 👁 56 views

Mac Terminal: Scan TLS Certificates with NMAP and SSLScan

The below script will give you basic information on a websites certificate: NMAP is provides a simple way to get a list of available ciphers from a host website / server. Additionally, nmap provides a strength rating of strong, weak, or unknown for each available cipher. First, download the ssl-enum-ciphers.nse nmap script (explanation here). Then from the same […]

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Open Source 21 Nov 2022 👁 15 views

Auto-Renew Let’s Encrypt Certs on Linux with Cron

If you want to automatically renew your certs then the easiest way is to setup a cron just to call letsencrypt periodically. Below is an example cron job: First create the bash script to renew the certificate Now enter the script in the following format into nano: Now edit the crontab to run the renew […]

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Macbooks 21 Nov 2022 👁 42 views

Fix DNS Issues Using dig and whois on Mac OS X

When debugging DNS issues its important to verify the local DNS response with the authoritive DNS nameserver. With dig we can directly query the authoritative name servers for a domain, these are the DNS servers that hold the authoritative records for the domains DNS zone; the source of truth. If a correct response is received […]

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