Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Blackweb component for Squid

Blackweb is a project that collects and unifies public blocklists of domains (porn, downloads, drugs, malware, spyware, trackers, bots, social networks, warez, weapons, etc.) to make them compatible with Squid.

OpenCanary

OpenCanary is a daemon that runs canary services, which trigger alerts when (ab)used. The alerts can be sent to a variety of sources, including syslog, emails and a companion daemon opencanary-correlator.

lsof command within Linux

The lsof command within Linux by default lists open files.  But the command can also show open network ports.  The example below returns any process with the name "team":

sudo lsof -i | grep "team"



Below is an example to show any process using the TCP port 5939:

sudo lsof -i TCP:5939


The next example shows processes that have listening ports:

sudo lsof -i | grep "LISTEN"


Additional examples can be found at https://www.linuxtechi.com/lsof-command-examples-linux-geeks/.

Bloatbox

Bloatbox is an utility to remove pre-installed apps from Windows 10.


Netenum

Netenum passively monitors the ARP traffic on the network. It extracts basic data about each active host, such as IP address, MAC address and manufacturer. The main objective of this tool is to find active machines without generating too much noise.

WuMgr

Update Manager for Windows, also known as WuMgr, is a free open-source tool for Windows 10 that allows you to manage Windows Updates without using the first-party tools such as Settings and Control Panel.

https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr/releases/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/install-windows-10-updates-manually-with-this-open-source-tool/


Saturday, August 1, 2020

Color within grep output

Below is an example of how to include color within the grep command output.

grep --color=always -E 'text|$' filename


Tsunami

Tsunami is a general purpose network security scanner with an extensible plugin system for detecting high severity vulnerabilities.  This project was open-sourced via Google in 2020.


DesktopComposer

DesktopComposer is an open source tool that simplifies Start Menu and Desktop shortcut deployment in Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019 with Group Policy.


DevNodeClean

On a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 or a later version, a storage device that is connected by using a fiber channel or by using the iSCSI protocol may be connected for only a short time. When a storage device is connected, Windows creates registry information for the device. Over time, the registry may contain many entries for devices that will never be used again. This utility can be used to remove this information from the registry.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42286

https://blog.workinghardinit.work/2020/05/25/use-cases-for-devnodeclean-exe/