Every now and then you run into a new file format and you find that you may not have a tool to parse that file. Or you are looking for an easy to use solution for you mom to access the photo’s you sent her in a .tar archive. This is where file conversion services come in, a quick Google for “online file converter” will yield multiple results. One thing to keep in mind when converting files, is that different file formats may support different features....
In the past our favourite hardware vendor to pick on was Cisco these days however, there is a new kid on the block - Huawei. We all know about the dangers of SNMP and default community strings, think Cisco and tftp. Seems like Huawei suffers from similar fail. Like all routers, switches, servers, ect out there, Huawei devices can be managed through SNMP. And just like other devices in the wild, SNMP is mostly configured with the community strings public and private as defaults....
Mongo provides a native shell for interacting with local and remote MongoDB instances. In rare cases you may find that a user’s logon shell has been replaced with this Mongo shell, this could happen when there is a shared machine where you want developers/admins to access the database but not have native access to the host. Everytime the user logs in, they hit the mongo shell, can execute mongo db commands and thats it....
A while back I spent some time playing with the “modern” database implementations, more affectionately known as hipster tech. These are mostly your so-called NoSQL, big-data, ect databases. Trying to interact with these databases required numerous scripts to be written, one for each database implementation. After chatting to @PaulWebSec I decided to merge these into a single tool. Thus HippyDB Tool was born. The following databases are supported: Aerospike Cassandra Hbase Hive Memcached Mongodb Redis Riak A quick scan of AWS and Google Cloud hosting showed that the vast majority of these databases are deployed on default ports, listening on all interfaces and most critically, without any authentication....