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Independent technical notes by Willis Vandevanter.

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  1. ldapsearch notes

    I seem to find open LDAP servers on the Internet more often than I should. Here are some notes on using ldapsearch

    Installing ldapsearch on Ubuntu

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    apt-get install ldap-utils
    

    Root-DSE object

    nmap includes a script to gather info from a LDAP root-dse …

  • Search all Github Repositories for an Organization

    gumbler is a script I wrote to search through git commits and introduced in the blog post “Searching Through Git Commits”. Recently I wanted to run Gumbler …

  • Searching Through Git Commits

    gumbler is a script I wrote to search through git commits. Examples from github are discussed below.

    .gitignore

    A gitignore file is used to specify files that …

  • XML Entity Cheatsheet

    An XML Entity testing cheatsheet. Testing was done using an older vulnerable version of nokogiri. In IRB you can require previous versions of gems. Certain techniques (e.g. XInclude) may require additional settings in Nokogiri.

    XML Headers:

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    <?xml …
  • IPv6 DNS Guessing Notes

    A hostname with an IPv6 address is stored as a AAAA resource record in DNS (see AAAA record). There are many DNS hostname bruteforcing tools, personally I …

  • Blackhat 2014 Arsenal Experience

    Last week at Blackhat Arsenal 2014, Pete and I (@will_is) presented on …