My name is Jason. This is the stuff that I do.
This past weekend I made my first attempted at smoking a brisket – two of them simultaneously. They both turned out very well, with a small but visible smoke ring. We used them for BBQ brisket tacos with lettuce and onions, as well as BBQ brisket sandwiches on buns with a little BBQ sauce. Each…
The Windows SAM File – A History Note: If you already know what the Windows SAM database is and want to get straight to the good stuff, skip this section (a history lesson) and go on to the next. The Windows SAM file is a database file that’s located in the directory C:\Windows\System32\config. It’s an…
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This post will serve as an ongoing personal notes section as I migrate my daily driver desktop to Debian 9. As I have issues with the OS, I will post fixes here. I hope that if you found this, it helps you out. Add the sudo Command (If it Doesn’t Exist) Upon completing the install,…
Pi Zero W Introduction The Raspberry Pi Zero W is an upgraded version of the old Pi Zero, and now comes with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built in. Unfortunately, the built-in Wi-Fi adapter does not support monitor mode or packet injection (by default – we can fix that!), but all is not lost because external USB…
To complete this project you’ll need the following: Raspberry Pi (preferably model 2 or 3) Power supply for the Raspberry Pi HDMI cable and a monitor USB keyboard and mouse USB gamepad or joystick is highly recommended Micro SD card that’s at least 4GB in size, although 8GB or larger would be preferable USB flash…
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Password Cracking: Pairing Down Wordlists via the Linux Command Line In a couple of previous articles (here and here), we learned several things to consider regarding the collection and combination of password wordlists, and how to use the cat command to combine multiple wordlists in to one. You may have concatenated a bunch of wordlists…
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New Software for a Familiar Board In a previous article, entitled Being a Wi-Fi Jerk with the ESP8266 NodeMCU and esp8266_deauther, I talked about setting up a cheap $4 ESP8266 NodeMCU board with a flash image called esp82666_deauther. Among other things, it’s used to deauthenticate wireless clients from whatever wireless access point they’re connected to. On…
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Introduction to the ESP8266 NodeMCU I generally try to keep the posts on this page constructive, but every once in a while you just need to have some malicious fun. Honestly, this little device could have some legitimate uses as well, but I’ll leave that up to your imagination. The NodeMCU is a small device,…
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Cracking Microsoft Office Document Passwords In this article we’ll look at how to crack password-protected Microsoft Office 97, 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013 files. We’ll learn about a nice Python script called office2john.py, which pulls a hash from the Office document in a format that is used by John the Ripper (another password cracking utility),…
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Introduction If you haven’t seen the previous two parts in this series, please check out Information Gathering Part I: theHarvester, and Information Gathering Part II: Recon-ng, go check those out before reading this post, as in this post we’ll be picking up right where we left off in Part II. In the last post we…
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