Quickly Check Domain Computers (Servers) for MS17-010 Patches
A quick PowerShell script hacked together to scan Active Directory computer objects that are Server 2008+ and check for MS17-010 patches.
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Rich
Just another IT guy.
Replacing IBM X3650 (7979-C3U) Planar (FRU: 43W8250/43W0331)
For those of you who may have followed along on my original post of me troubleshooting an IBM X3650, I found a system planar for $20 (lol). Just…
WordPress Unauthorized Password Reset Vulnerability (CVE-2017-8259)
A vulnerability reported to WordPress in July 2016 was publicly released recently and identified as CVE-2017-8259. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a…
grep email regular expression
grep -E -o "[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+.[A-Za-z]{2,6}"
400 Million Records in MySQL
So I'm trying to figure out a way to make searching a VARCHAR in MySQL fast when there are 400 million rows. I tried the UNIQUE approach using…
A start job is running for dev-disk-byuuid-
I recently used GParted to delete a Swap partition on my Linux server so I could extend my primary partition. In doing so, the UUID changed of the…
SMBus Host Controller Not Enabled!
To fix the error message SMBus Host Controller not enabled! message, you can blacklist the module from loading. I use Debian 9; check with your distribution for specifics,…
Dog and Guinea Pig
Compile dynamic nginx modules
My notes for compiling modules in nginx. As of nginx 1.9.11, you can dynamically load modules using load_module in nginx.conf. To compile the module, if not available in…
[FAIL] IBM x3650 7979 Booting the Controller Kernel
I've been experiencing a weird issue with a decommissioned server. I have an IBM x3650 7979 server with a ServeRaid 8k-l controller and during boot it just hangs…
CPU-miner Installed via Windows OS Vulnerability
I have triaged a handful of Windows servers this week that started out being ticketed as high CPU / performance issues. Upon investigation, I have found XMR cryptocurrency…
Fail2ban + fail2sql + Ban Hammer + PHP7
I recently revisited a project from some time ago that I found and modified the code to support PHP7 which dropped support for mysql extension in favor of mysqli.
Chrome on Windows 10 Creators Update Hangs
I was plagued with an annoying problem in Chrome 58, beta and Canary for the past month or two. Actually, it dates back to when I was in…
From Linux Install to WordPress
A typical installation of Debian 8.x (Jessie) precedes this where I only select base system and ssh server options during operating system installation. After installation, this is a…
Powershell logparse regexp to csv
Input line: Thu 2017-03-30 00:00:07: user@domain.com (John Doe) checked mail from 127.0.0.1 using IMAP, 0 msgs collected, 21 remaining Powershell script: $rxp = "([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)|(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3})|(POP|IMAP)|(^[A-Z][a-z]+sd{4}-d{2}-d{2}sd{2}:d{2}:d{2})" gc ".*.log" | select-string…