Premise This is a quick and dirty tutorial on how to get set up with the AWS EC2 API. Credentials Go to http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html and follow the instructions to get your access key and secret access key. Install the CLI Component For this to work, you’ll need python and pip. Once you’ve ensured both are installed, run this command: pip3 install awscli Generate your config and credentials file Now that you have your credentials, go ahead and run this command:...

This will be a quickie. Basically, the UNM CS machines have the sl (steam locomotive) command set up, which is incredibly annoying if you happen to accidentally type “ls” incorrectly - something I manage to do quite regularly. Let’s replace this with ls. Open ~/.bash_profile with your favorite text editor, and toss this in there (if it’s not already there): source ~/.bashrc Next, open ~/.bashrc and throw this up: alias sl='ls' alias LS='ls' alias l='ls' If there’s something already in there, do not overwrite it, unless you know what you’re doing....

This will help you set up vnc for the cs machines for UNM Obviously, if you’re not a computer science student at UNM, this will not be very interesting to you. However, since I have been asked this question on multiple occasions, I figured it would be good to get the process documented and easily accessible. Here goes: Log into your CS account. Run this command: touch ~/.vnc/xstartup Throw this into that file with your favorite text editor:...

Reverse Engineering Methodology Use jadx (used to analyze java bytecode) to disassemble an APK. Another great tool is Apktool Terminology Activity Something a user “touches” What launches when you tap the application icon Service Long running process that runs in the background An example of this is spotify - you listen to music while doing stuff on other apps Intent Used to facilitate communications between different Android objects A message that states that you did or want something to happen For example, this could be something like the phone ringing, or receiving an SMS message Intents are used to start activities and services or deliver a broadcast message Intent Receiver Respond to input, which could be something like an SMS message, losing WiFi, etc....

Installation on Centos 8 sudo dnf makecache sudo dnf install -y epel-releasesudo dnf makecache sudo dnf install -y ansible Resource: https://linuxhint.com/install_ansible_centos8 Build Control Node I used an Ubuntu 20.04 instance for this. While I do provide installation instructions for Red Hat, everything is focused around Ubuntu. If you want to use another OS, you’ll just need to change the commands for installing and the username (ubuntu). Create SSH key for management ssh-keygen -b 4096 -f ~/....

Keyboard Shortcuts There are many useful keyboard shortcuts that I’ve come across over time, and I try to include them here so they don’t get forgotten. DevTools keyboard shortcut COMMAND+SHIFT+I Resource: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/shortcuts/ Open Finder OPTION + COMMAND + SPACE Resource: https://www.howtogeek.com/661251/how-to-open-finder-with-a-keyboard-shortcut-on-mac/#:~:text=Luckily%2C%20you%20can%20open%20Finder,window%20for%20quick%20file%20searches. Open Spotlight COMMAND + SPACE Maximize window COMMAND + TAB to highlight the minimized window you want to maximize. Before releasing the COMMAND button, hit the OPTION button (ALT on a windows keyboard)....

This contains various commands and information that I find useful for AWS work. Install latest version of AWS CLI on linux curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" \ -o "awscliv2.zip" unzip awscliv2.zip sudo ./aws/install Resource: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2-linux.html Credentials Use env vars Create the following env vars with your AWS credentials: export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY Set up named profiles You can run aws configure for guided setup. Alternatively, you can add the following to ~/.aws/credentials: [myenv] export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY If you don’t opt for the guided setup, don’t forget to set the region in ~/....

Automated Scanning Tools These are tools that can be run by attackers or defenders to get a sense for all of the assets in an environment. Create audit user to use for running tools export AUDIT_IAM_USER="usr-security-audit" aws iam create-user --user-name "${AUDIT_IAM_USER}" aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name "${AUDIT_IAM_USER}" --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/ReadOnlyAccess aws iam attach-user-policy --user-name "${AUDIT_IAM_USER}" --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/SecurityAudit aws iam create-access-key --user-name "${AUDIT_IAM_USER}" Be sure to create a profile in your ~/.aws/config and ~/....

I’ve gotten tired of googling the same things over and over again. While loops Run for period of time #!/bin/bash runtime="5 minute" endtime=$(date -ud "$runtime" +%s) while [[ $(date -u +%s) -le $endtime ]] do echo "Time Now: `date +%H:%M:%S`" echo "Sleeping for 10 seconds" sleep 10 done Resource: https://www.golinuxcloud.com/run-while-loop-until-specific-time-shell-bash/ Infinite loop item=true while [ $item = true ]; do echo 'bla'; done While value is an empty string value="" while [[ -z "$value" ]]; do echo "value is empty" # here's where we break out if [[ "$value" ]]; then echo "exiting loop because value has been set to $value" break fi done Read each line of a file while read p; do echo "$p" done <file....

Chef Server Download and Install On Centos 8: CHEF_SERVER_DL=https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chef-server/14.1.0/el/8/chef-server-core-14.1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm INSTALL_DIR=/home/admin wget $CHEF_SERVER_DL -P $INSTALL_DIR Installation: sudo dnf localinstall -y $INSTALL_DIR/chef-server-core-14.1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm Configuration Start by setting the following variables to correspond with the commands below: USERNAME="chefadmin" FIRST_NAME="Chef" LAST_NAME="Administrator" EMAIL="chefadmin@myorg.com" KEY_PATH="${HOME}/chefadmin.pem" ORG_NAME="myorg" ORG_FULL_NAME="Organization Inc." VALIDATION_KEY_PATH="/etc/chef/myorg-validator.pem" Install Chef server and automatically accept the license: sudo chef-server-ctl reconfigure --chef-license=accept Show status of server sudo chef-server-ctl status Create new user The key at ${KEY_PATH} will be used by a workstation at a later time....