Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

List all files and first level directories arranged by size on Linux

du -sh * | sort -hr Where: Sample: That’s it, Enjoy!

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Mount shared folder inside Kali Linux VM on VMware Workstation

Create a share from your Virtual Machine Settings, let’s call it shared_vm To make it permanent, add it to /etc/fstab as follows: Tested on the following environment: That’s it, Enjoy! Sources: VMware Official Docs

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Script to grab sizes of GCP buckets

Prerequisites: For a simple script that just does the job and gets the sizes of all your buckets: For a more comprehensive script that picks a specific set of buckets and saves the output to a file: That’s it, Enjoy!

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How to enable Python to craft packets and listen to ports less than 1024 without sudo

To be able to craft packets with Scapy, you have to either use sudo or allow setcap for your python environment. I don’t prefer to use sudo when working with my Anaconda environments, so I did the following: sudo setcap … Continue reading

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How to run wireshark/tshark or tcpdump to capture packets inside IPMininet using screen

This has been a bit confusing for some time, but after you run your ipmininet network with Python, you want to capture some packets with wireshark/tshark or tcpdump, here is the way you can do it: Let’s assume we have … Continue reading

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