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

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Ahmed Tawfik

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

Posted on April 6, 2024 by Ahmed Tawfik

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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Fix Clipboard Copy/Paste Functionality with Windows 11 Pro Host, VMWare Workstation 16 Pro and Ubuntu 16.04 32-bit Guest

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Ahmed Tawfik

#!/bin/bashprocessString=$(ps -ef | grep ‘[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9] /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr’) # get process info for vmtoolsdtokens=( $processString ) # tokenizekill “${tokens[1]}” # grab pid and kill it/usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr & > /dev/null 2>&1 # restart vmtoolsd That’s it, Enjoy! Source: https://superuser.com/questions/587767/clipboard-operations-copy-paste-often-stop-working-on-vmware-workstation/1323289#1323289?newreg=6f4bb599af1c44edb3f818c50d344fea

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Installing latest version of gef on Ubuntu 16.04 32-bit

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Ahmed Tawfik

If you are having trouble installing gef on Ubuntu 16.04 32-bit, you may follow these steps: Install python3.6 and python3.6-dev: sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:jblgf0/python sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3.6 python3.6-dev Install texinfo package (since you would the makeinfo … Continue reading →

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Hack The Box Write-up: BLUE

Posted on November 29, 2023 by Ahmed Tawfik

This article is a writeup of how the HTB machine “Blue” was pawned and its root flag captured and eventually model this path using the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. Recon Introduction The reconnaissance phase, often referred to as the “recon phase,” … Continue reading →

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