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Disable SELinux For the sake of simplicity and saving time, we will be disabling SELinux, which isn’t recommended. We urge you to learn how SELinux works and to set it up accordingly after getting samba working successfully. This will disable SELinux from being enabled on boot: vi /etc/selinux/configChange “SELINUX=enforcing” to “SELINUX=disabled” Run this to immediately ...

I am sure many people that use OSINT are aware of these tools and links; however, information, and acquiring that information from all sources, is relevant and should never be overlooked. Hopefully, this will come in handy for OSINT investigations.I have listed some resources that are known within the hacker community in acquiring information on many entities, this includes ...

This is a Python script I wrote to send emails to email accounts or cellular devices. It can be used to send a single message or multiple copies of the message to the recipient. It is a very crude and my first python script I work. The script uses the send email terminal command and prompts for the address of the ...

Do you remember the Geico marketing campaign from a few years ago featuring cavemen with the slogan, “So easy a caveman could do it”? The driving message of this snarky humored campaign was that getting insurance is so, so easy, why wouldn’t you do it?My message is the same.And while I’m not calling you a caveman, I am saying that ...

Let me start with a basic introduction. I go by "Bigcode"  as you see on my profile, and I am a newbie to Cybrary; however, as a curious and ambitious kid, I learned by my mistakes (3 crashed computers).Anyway, on to the reason we're here! Data Recovery & Computer Repair: Tools & Applications The most important step for any ...

Most of the applications these days are on  Cloud . Cloud is ubiquitous with many service providers in the market. Since it has many benefits such as cost reduction, software updates, remote access, disaster recovery and much more. But most of the organizations are in a notion that security is a service providers job. Yea, I ...

Not long after the Internet and World Wide Web were unleashed on the public, plans were already underway to increase the potential pool of IP addresses available for allocation. The version of the IP protocol standard most in use today, IPv4, was released way back in 1981 and deployed in 1982. This version is a 32-bit protocol ...

Have you ever wanted to calculate an MD5 Hash of a web page? Well, now you can.Before we begin, you might be asking why would I ever need to use an MD5 Hash on a web page? The reason is simple: Check to see if a web page changes. Why can't I just compare two files? You ...

Introduction Socat is a multi-purpose networking tool which can be used to accomplish various networking tasks (refer to SOCAT as a Polymorphic Networking Tool which gives an overview on the many uses of Socat). In this article, Socat will be used to setup an SSL VPN tunnel between two endpoints, which could be separated over a large ...

These days, all we hear about  hacktivists  took down a website and retrieved thousands of user’s data. One of the techniques to get unauthorized access to a database is by performing SQL injection . SQL injection is a basic technique a hacker might use to take over unauthorized access to the database or maybe to enumerate the ...