By default a full installation of CentOS 7 will have the graphical user interface (GUI) installed and it will load up at boot, however it is possible that the system has been configured to not boot into the GUI.
In this quick guide we will show you how to swap to the GUI and enable it to start up by default on system boot.
In Windows Server 2016, Windows Firewall is enabled by default. This allows all outgoing traffic to any destination or port, but limits incoming traffic based on specific rules. We’ll cover how to configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security by demonstrating how to open it through both the GUI and PowerShell, followed by a demonstration of how to create a custom firewall rule.
By default data transferred over the network to an SMB share is in plain text, meaning that an attacker with access to the network can view the files being transferred. By enabling SMB encryption on SMB shares this can be prevented.
When creating an SMB share either with PowerShell or through the graphical user interface (GUI) we have the option to enable SMB encryption on the share. We’ll be showing you how to enable SMB encryption on an existing SMB file share in these examples using both PowerShell and the GUI in Windows Server 2016.
With the correct packages we can quickly setup a simple CentOS 7 server to run a full LAMP stack.
This will turn our Linux system into a web server capable of serving out dynamic content from a database back end.
We can configure storage reports with File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) in Windows Server 2016 to generate various useful reports. These reports allow us to get a high level overview of the file shares on the file server.
In this example we’ll show you how to configure storage reports in Windows Server 2016, however the steps are very similar to older versions of the Windows operating system.
The BSides Canberra 2017 conference just wrapped up along with the capture the flag event and I wanted to document my solution to one of the two memory analysis challenges from the forensic category titled “Rekt Exfil”.
I was keen to try this challenge as I’m pretty interested in memory analysis. The first time I ever attempted a memory challenge was actually during the BSides Canberra 2016 CTF, so it’s been a full year since my first time.
We can configure file screens with File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) in Windows Server 2016 to restrict users from saving defined file types to the file share. For example, we can configure file screening to deny users from saving large video files on the file server.
In this example we’ll show you how to configure file screens in Windows Server 2016, however the steps are very similar to older versions of the Windows operating system.
How can we find where the default configuration files for the httpd package in CentOS are located?
By using the RPM command we can query a package to find all of its associated configuration files. Failing that we can use the find command to search the file system for these files, as we will see here.
We can configure quotas with File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) to warn or limit a user based on the total file size of all of the files that they own on the file server. This can be used to fairly share the available space between many users.
In this example we’ll show you how to configure quotas in Windows Server 2016, however the steps are very similar to older versions of the Windows operating system.
This guide will cover how to install the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) role service in Windows Server 2016 with both PowerShell and GUI methods.
FSRM is used to configure quotas, file screens, and storage reports on the file system in Windows.