An issue came up where the output of a terminal window was needed after that terminal was closed. This unfortunate situation can come up during penetration tests or certification tests like the OSCP. Some investigation into options revealed the ancient and reviled script linux-util program. It records input, output, and timings to file that allow the terminal session view to be replayed or grepped at a later time. The program was added to the ~/.

A couple weeks ago I had installed VMWare Player to use the Offensive Security Kali Virtual Machine to go through the OSCP course. Upon installing the VM in VMWare player, I immediately began experiencing a bad issue on both my laptop and my desktop that I did not experience on my previous go-to desktop virtualization application Virtualbox. There was LAG Very bad input lag as seen below. The type of lag that kills productivity in a terminal window.

You probably don’t need a Wordpress blog, or a hosted website on Wix, Squarespace, or Weebly. I need to specify that you in this context is a human person, not a corporate thing with machiavellian corporate needs. Just a human that has a desire to publish musings on this great big thing called the internet. You likely don’t need to have comments. Let the comments be on another platform like Facebook, Twitter, email or wherever else you waste your life away.

You might need to pay for MacOS antivirus in 2022. Yes, your Apple laptop or desktop does need some form of antivirus. Apple products are not immune from spyware, malware, and viruses. The belief that they were immune was the result of millions of dollars in Apple advertising highlighting that Microsoft Windows was the dominant OS in the desktop market. Viruses and malware written for Apple products are less common because Windows is still ~75% of the global market share in operating systems.

Sometimes I like these quick, single vulnerability boxes because I can work on the speed of reporting. Find the flag, then go back and answer the questions required to submit the flag. Plus add a couple notes and modifications to the toolset in the notes, like the different wordlist for enumeration http. Executive Summary The target machine suffered from broken access control vulnerability that allow for the harvesting of active user credentials from FTP.