Curiosity in Practice
A picture started floating around the internet of Mark Zuckerberg holding an Instagram cutout: People almost instantly started to notice that his webcam and mic were taped over. While Mark Zuckerberg isnt exactly known for having great security practices, all his social media passwords were Dadada. This started a discussion in the office if someone … Read more
While rebuilding my iPad this weekend I noticed that I could name it an emoji. So I named my iPad 📱(U+1F4F1): While I don’t have any problem using the iPad it basically makes it unreachable on the network via hostname. From there I renamed all of my lab machines emojis. Mostly variations of 💩 (U+1F4A9) because I … Read more
While getting ready to teach an “introduction to penetration testing with docker ” class I stumbled across the Shipyard-Project which brings an amazing web based interface to docker. Installing on Debian on DigitalOcean is as simple as starting a droplet and running these two commands: curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh curl -sSL https://shipyard-project.com/deploy | bash -s Update: Running scripts … Read more
Docker containers have become so ubiquitous sometimes respected security professionals tweet ridiculous things like: docker run -u zap -p 8080:8080 -p 8090:8090 -i owasp/zap2docker-stable zap-webswing.sh http://localhost:8080/?anonym=true&app=ZAP — Jerry Gamblin (@JGamblin) June 7, 2016 …but it is 2016 and you should never run code on your machine if you don’t know what it does. These are mini-virtual machines … Read more
I built a simple TOR socks proxy container today to be able to easily use TOR to machines I am working on. Getting it to run is as simple as: docker run –name tor -ti -p 9050:9050 jgamblin/tor This will run it as a daemon: docker run –name tor -ti -p 9050:9050 jgamblin/tor From there all you … Read more