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Python – Print Examples

Below is a small example to show some of the various way in which print can be called within Python. quote = “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”print(“ORIGINAL”)print(quote)print(“\nUPPERCASE”)print(quote.upper())print(“\nLOWERCASE”)print(quote.lower())print(“\nTITLE”)print(quote.title())print(“\nREPLACE”)print(quote.replace(“person”, “banana”)) Output [root@linux]# python print_example.py ORIGINALA person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.UPPERCASEA PERSON WHO NEVER MADE A MISTAKE … Read more

Solaris BART (Basic Auditing and Reporting Tool)

BART (Basic Auditing and Reporting Tool) provides the ability to determine file-level changes at a granular level within the Solaris 10 operating system. This is achieved via the creation of 2 manifest files (a control-manifest and test-manifest), each manifest catalogs the attributes of each file and then a comparison is run between the files and … Read more

Cisco ASA MPF URL Filtering

Within this tutorial will will look at 2 configuration examples in which we will use HTTP inspection within the Cisco ASA to allow access for certain hosts based on specific URL headers. EXAMPLE 1 This example will show the required syntax to allow access to yahoo.com for any host within the network 10.1.1.0 255.255.0.0. HTTP … Read more

Python – Basic FTP Downloader

This python script will connect to a designated FTP server. Obtain a list of all files, then sort all files with a .jpa extension and then download the latest one. In order to do this regular expressions are used to build a list of files only containing .jpa file extensions. This list is then sorted … Read more

Windows 2008 System Files

Below lists the core Windows 2008 system files. The list “Core System Files” was derived from the “System Files” list (found here). The “System Files” list was obtained using the “file name” XML tags within %WinDir%\WinSxS\Backup\*.manifest. The %WinDir%\WinSxS\Backup is a cache storage for backing up critical system files that are needed to start Windows, as … Read more

Wget – 403 Forbidden Error

Issue When trying to download a file using wget you recieve a 403 forbidden error. root@Fileserver html# wget [website] –2010-12-20 20:40:40– [website] Resolving www.maani.us… 75.125.128.242Connecting to www.maani.us|75.125.128.242|:80… connected.HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 403 Forbidden2010-12-20 20:40:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden. Solution wget -U firefox [website]

Cisco IPS v6 Risk Ratings

The Cisco IPS Sensor generates risk ratings that are assigned to alerts which provides the administrator with an indication to the severity of the alert. There are  six values which are used in the calculation of the Risk Rating : ASR (Attack severity rating) TVR (Target Value Rating) SFR (Signature fidelity Rating) ARR (Attack relevancy rating) … Read more

IP Version 6 (IPv6)

IPv4 is the current protocol used for sending data over the internet. The main issue with IPv4 is its limited address space. With the amount of available IPv4 address rapidly shrinking IPv6 overcomes this by introducing 128 bit addresses and a much larger address space to that of IPv4. 1. Changes Introduced by IPv6 Summary … Read more