Hack The Box is an online platform allowing you to test your penetration testing skills and exchange ideas and methodologies with thousands of people in the security field. Buff is an Easy level Windows machine. The box statistics show us... Read more about HackTheBox - Buff Writeup
In our previous post, we created a database to store all our information and added a config file to read variables from. In this post, we’ll build off that config file while incorporating email alerts when changes are detected. Update... Read more about Building a File Integrity Monitor - Part 4
Simple Cloud Formation Introduction Today I’d like to talk a little bit about infrastructure as code. Infrastructure as code is when you write code to manage your cloud infrastructure. Having your infrastructure set up as code does wonders for your... Read more about Simple Cloud Formation
Hopefully you’re caught up with our previous post, where we upgraded the hashing and added a way to collect the bytes of our files. In this post, we’ll be starting to clean up the code, as well as implementing a... Read more about Building a File Integrity Monitor - Part 3
Windows Development on a Mac I recently took the plunge into becoming a contracting developer. One of the most difficult things to decide is, what kind of hardware do I use? What kind of work should I focus on? How... Read more about Windows Development on a Mac
Cross-Site Scriptng (XSS) is commonly used to steal credentials and session cookie information, but what good are credentials when the targetted application can’t be accessed from the outside? Or perhaps we’ve found XSS in a target where entire areas of... Read more about Tool Release: XSSpider
TLDR: I fixed the Svelte JS template to use Docker and offer live reloading. Check it out here. So I wanted to try out this slick new JS framework called Svelte. Everything about it looks totally awesome, except the weird... Read more about Developing Svelte in Docker
I’ve been working on yet another app for a personal project that I plan on releasing for Android and iOS. I found myself in a pickle when it came to actually building the artifacts for the Apple App Store. I... Read more about Building a Cordova project in Azure DevOps
To build an app for the App Store, you need a few things. An identifier and a signing certificate are the main ones. If you’re using something like Azure DevOps to build an app for iOS, you may not have... Read more about Getting an Apple certificate from Windows
Although I love software and write it for fun and profit, I have also started to fall in love with electronics. I’ve mostly only fiddled around with PIC chips and 555 timers on a breadboard, but this time I went... Read more about Making an ATX Breakout Board
In an earlier post I spoke about talking to NodeJS processes using good old standard in and standard out streams. I did mention I was using it for a project, but I didn’t go into too many details about it.... Read more about Extracting Windows Icons with NodeJS
Welcome back for part two in this six part series of building your own File Integrity Monitor. In this post, we’ll be upgrading the MD5 hashing to SHA-256, as well as grabbing the Base64 encoded bytes of our files. There... Read more about Building a File Integrity Monitor - Part 2
I’m currently working on a project that is being written using GitHub’s Electron. It’s great because it allows me to write desktop applications using HTML5, Javascript and CSS for the view. It allows me to use NodeJS to do the... Read more about Talking to Processes with Node
Last month, we posted a guide on how to make your very own Basic File Integrity Monitor. In this six-part series, you’ll be taking what you learned and replacing simple components with more advanced, realistic counterparts. This first post is... Read more about Building a File Integrity Monitor - Part 1
Have you ever thought it would be neat to be able to control your browser from another application? Me too. In fact, I think we should be able to control all our applications from other applications. In this post I’m... Read more about Remote Control Firefox
Unit testing! The wonderful thing everyone wants to do but never does. In this post I’ll show you how to do it so you don’t have an excuse not to. Now, I’m not going to go in depth about unit... Read more about Setting Up Karma for Ionic
Cordova is extremely powerful, but it’s not always obvious. Hooks are a good example of this. Hooks let you attach to specific steps in Cordovas processes and run scripts before and after certain things occur. In this post, we’ll go... Read more about Cordova Hooks
File Integrity Monitoring systems are great for notifying users when important files are being changed, and can even prevent the changes from sticking. In this post, I’ll show you how to build your own basic FIM using Python, alerting on... Read more about Building a basic File Integrity Monitor
I had this idea that it would be really cool to replicate the popout buttons that the Pinterest app has for use with Ionic. Below is a sample picture of the Pinterest app and it’s buttons. Check out the code... Read more about Creating Popout Buttons for Ionic
Ionic has an awesome control called the Slide Box. Let’s make a wizard out of it. I’m also taking this opportunity to show off some of the other form controls Ionic has to offer. You can get all the code... Read more about Creating a Slidebox Wizard with Ionic
Sometimes Cordova just doesn’t have access to some libraries you’d have access to if you were writing a native application. Maybe you need to do some heavy processing, but don’t want to bog down the thread that the Web View... Read more about Writing Ionic Plugins with Android
I’m working on an Android app using Ionic that sends URLs from your PC to your device, and visa versa with a single click/tap. I figured an easy way to send the URL from the device to the PC would... Read more about Capturing Android Intents with Cordova
The Install Getting everything properly installed for Cordova to run on Android can be a pain. You need NodeJS, the Java JDK, ANT and then the Android SDK. If you haven’t done any of that, you can follow this previous... Read more about Ionic Getting Started
So you have a sweet Ionic app ready, but want to be able to push notifications to your users. The guys over at Drifty feel you and setup Ionic Push just for you! While the documentation is well done, there... Read more about Ionic Push Notifications
Cordova Platform Cordova is a system that allows you to write native mobile applications using HTML, Javascript and CSS. It nicely wraps a web view control and acts as a server for your page or pages. This allows app creators... Read more about Cordova Getting Started
Why Vagrant? Remember all those other projects you wanted to work on, but you had to install about a thousand things, have exactly the right path variables setup and had to perform some voodoo ritual to get started and your... Read more about Vagrant Getting Started
Welcome to Science Viking Labs! We are a group of bearded men out to make life easier through automation. We currently have a couple of projects in the planning phase and plan to use this blog to show our progress... Read more about Science Viking Labs
