Wilk's Notes

Malwarebytes released a report on GrayKey - a device capable of breaking 4 and 6 digits long PINs on iPhones. After the iPhone is unlocked, the full contents of the filesystem are downloaded to the GrayKey. From there, they can be accessed through a web-based interface on a connected computer, and downloaded for analysis. The full, unencrypted contents of the keychain are also available for download. The full report is available here:  Malwarebytes Blog

Here's another annoying thing - stuck VMware Tools installation. You never know when it's gonna hit you, but oh boy - we gonna hit it back fast.

The story how Linux failed me or how I failed to understand Linux. This is probably gonna be the quickest Quickie ever (pun intended).

Hello Everybody, As you've probably noticed, this blog was quite dead for the last few months. The reason behind it was me changing jobs and getting involved in Ireland's VMUG Meeting in February ( click! ).

Admit it. This can happen to all of us. Somebody was changing the root password while intoxicated, without a notepad at hand or had a sudden memory loss. Whatever's the reason, you're now locked out of your own host. What now?

1. Intro & prerequisites - AUR & yaourt The easiest way to install a fingerprint scanner software on Arch and Arch-based distros is using AUR (Arch User Repository). AUR is a repository of packages submitted by Arch users community. The package we'll be using in this tutorial is called fingerprint-gui

Quickie (noun): 1.  a rapidly consumed alcoholic drink. 2.  a brief act of sexual intercourse . Today we're going to add a third definition to that list: 3. a low effort (but still informative) blog post.     Without dragging this (brief) introduction any further - let's get started.  

Here's the second part of my previous post . In this tutorial, we're going to finish up the OpenVPN setup. What's left to do is creating client configuration file (.ovpn), which is going to contain all the info required by the OpenVPN client for establishing a VPN connection. We're also going to look into the actual client software setup on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and OSX. The final part of the tutorial is probably going to be released sometime later this month - it's going to cover more advanced OpenVPN features such as password protected client certificates, adding SSL from a Top-Level CA as well as how to configure a side-to-side VPN connection between two networks. Welcome, to OpenVPN Server Setup Part II

We’re all lazy, aren’t we? If you think about it for a second, everything you do is more or less aimed at making your life easier, simpler and less-time consuming. Think about your last project. What were you more concerned about: polishing every little detail or maybe getting some stuff done as soon as possible due to an incoming deadline?

Essential network components are sometimes the hardest to configure without knowing the basics. When I first started working on a virtual environment, I didn't even know I had to setup networking! It took me weeks to understand fully how all the VMware "parts" speak to each other. The vKernels, vSwitches, vLANs versus VLANs... yeah, that's a story for another time.  For now, let's talk about the basics. In this post I'll quickly walk you through the process of setting up a virtual router (vRouter) - a Linux VM responsible for most of your internal virtual networking. Once we have that up and going, we can continue our journey through the exciting world of virtual networking inside both VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.

Well, here goes nothing. After having been told multiple times by my colleagues to finally enter the blogging world - here I am.