Tonight I was working on creating some some listeners that run automatically on boot in Ubuntu. Not only should they run automatically but there should be scripts to start, stop, and watch the status of the listeners for incoming traffic. I also decided to add the items to the Ubuntu Applications menu and thought it…
It is very common when obtaining wireless network handshakes to end up with a huge capture(.cap or .pcap typically) file. Previously purehate wrote this article on filtering out SSID specific EAPOL packets from a capture file but if you wanted to keep any and all packets related to a specific SSID including data packets, beacon…
Installing SSLScan on OSX is documented numerous other places as well but you may not find the answer immediately when searching via the error output during an attempted install. Below is the output from attempting to install SSLScan on OSX without using the ports version of OpenSSL. Follow the directions below to get SSLScan working…
While working on a PHP script on a CentOS Linux server that runs from crontab I ran into an issue where PHP was bogging the server down because of memory use. The script has a lot of output that is not necessary to store though when using the exec function within the PHP script it…
Recently I needed to find out information about a Juniper router password which is stored as a hash in the router configuration. The tricky part is while the password hash is technically a MD5 hash it is modified to make it unique and make it harder to crack. Luckily there is a way to crack…
Cisco devices running the Cisco IOS have three types of ways to display passwords in the device configuration which include Type 0, Type 5, and Type 7. Below we describe all three methods of storing passwords in the Cisco IOS device configuration and how to obtain the password from each method either by simply reading…
I spent a lot of time the other night trying to find a perl script that would decode Cisco type 7 password hashes and many of them did not work properly. At first I thought I was doing something wrong however I am pretty sure that most of the scripts were just broken. Anyhow I…
Tonight I needed to console into a old Cisco 2900 switch to test a couple password related items and it was the first time that I would be using USB to Serial adapter on my Macbook. Previously there had been a lot of issues with the adapter I have, which is a PL-2303, and getting…
Earlier tonight I created a little script that will run in cron on a Linux server. The script counts the number of directories and files in a specific directory and if the count is above Y then it deletes directories and files older than X number of days. In the example script below the number…
Earlier I was transferring some configuration files from an application on a Windows 7 computer to an application on a OSX Lion computer. The location of a file referenced in the configuration files had changed so I needed to update about a hundred different INI files with the new location. Doing this on OSX is…