My Top 10 Handy CLI Networking Tools
MTR MTR (My Traceroute) is a fantastic diagnostic tool that can outright replace the more common ping and traceroute verification wherever…
The Top 13 Essential Browser Extensions for Techies
This post will be a departure from my usual specialised deep-dive tutorials, and instead I will be listing some of my favourite browser…
Automating ASR9K Software Upgrades with Cisco CSM
Cisco Software Manager (CSM) is an orchestration and management platform for Cisco ASR9K IOS-XR devices that provides a framework for the…
SSH Login Push Notifications with IFTTT
I recently set out to find a solution for receiving push notifications on my mobile device for important events on my servers. There are…
Managing Network ACL's With Ansible
This is a quick glimpse at a production application of Ansible to automate your infrastructure Access-Control-Lists. Access-Control-Lists…
Cracking Linux User Passwords with John the Ripper
Just a quick one today, here is a look at cracking Linux user passwords using John the Ripper. John was designed in an age of central…
Automated SNMPv3 Configuration
This blog post is about SNMPv3. As many Engineers familiar with SNMP will know, SNMP is a powerful protocol that can divulge a lot of…
Managing a Traefik web-server with Docker
A few months back I moved away from NGINX and made the switch to Traefik as my SkyeNet.tech reverse proxy. A colleague had recently made the…
Outline VPN: Setup Guide
Today I will be looking at Outline VPN: one of the simplest VPN solutions yet, straight from the Google family! Created by Jigsaw, a younger…
SkyeNet-Setup: My Personal Toolbox
Of late, I have found myself distro-hopping very frequently on my various personal machines (not to mention breaking my installs way too…
Fun with WiFi: Cracking WPA Keys
Securing a WiFi network is no easy feat, especially when the client authentication happens literally through the air. Several standards have…
Password Security 101
You use passwords? Yeah, they're important, ay. I have a few different ones on the go, a bunch of password managers and vaults, but we all…
Fun with WiFi: De-Authentication Attacks!
Here I will be discussing another WiFi attack vector; deauthentication attacks. Within the IEEE 802.11 standard, forever branded unoffically…
Fun with WiFi: SSID-Overload!
For this post we will be looking at how the WiFi protocol (IEEE 802.11) allows alien devices to view network paramaters prior to connecting,…
NMAP, NCAT and NGREP: The Networking Toolbox
Nmap is a highly popular, and very powerful network security tool. Nmap is used for network mapping and port scanning in the discovery of…
Exploiting Cron-Jobs
In this post, I would like to run through another one of OverTheWire's hacking challenges. To preserve the integrity of the challenges, all…
Brute-Force Password Attacking
In this post, I would like to run through another one of OverTheWire's hacking challenges. To preserve the integrity of the challenges, all…