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How does text that is displayed with cat end up trying to execute in the Linux terminal?

Sometimes you accidentally "cat" a binary... only for your terminal to become utterly corrupted, ending up in another code page where all characters are unrecognizable, while your shell spits back at you "Command not found" "Command not found" as if…
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Why my card changes from WPA Handshake to PMKID or vice versa just by airodump-ng

I am running Kali linux 2020.3 on VBox on Windows 10. I put my wireless card AWUS036ACH chipset Realtek RTL8812AU in monitor mode using airmon-ng start wlan0. Then i use airodump-ng wlan0 to capture all the traffic that is passing by. When i use…
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Have I been hacked? Terminal shows me in a different hostname than my machine

Sorry for the generic title but really don't know how to call this. I've just upgraded my MacBook Air to macOS Mojave 10.14.3. Usually, when opening the terminal it would show something like myusername at myMacBookAir in ~. After this upgrade, but…
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How secure is a serial/terminal/console server, from the serial side?

I'm upgrading my home lab, and one of the things I'm planning on introducing this time is out-of-band management through a Raspberry Pi console server similar to this: https://www.packet6.com/configuring-your-raspberry-pi-as-a-console-server/ I've…
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passing user input to command line

I am using crack lib to check password strength for my web application. However, I’m concerned about whether or not my current implementation is secure. The user enters a password, which is then their run through the following node.js code: …
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OS X terminal starts from other device (got rooted?)

I've recently noticed that my terminal starts with something like "android... " even though I don't have any android device. Furthermore I noticed that my macbook only starts with "android..." when it's connected to the internet. If I turn my…
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Security testing alternatives on MacOS

Is it possible/feasible to set up a hacking machine that rivals a distribution like Kali Linux on MacOS, or will it never be possible for MacOS to rival a distribution like Kali in terms of hacking tools and functionality from CLI?
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Creating portable bash terminal & cmd to USB

Developing my toolkit and I want to have a safe edition of cmd.exe and bash on a usb. Why? These can be tampered with by attackers and I want a version I know is safe from manipulation. Any suggestions? Is this even possible today? I've read old…
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accessing Desktop from Root directory

I was using aircrack-ng package in my ubuntu 15.04. This package works only under root privileges. Now I want to save .cap file on my desktop using airodump-ng package but everytime I do, it throws an error -bash: cd: Desktop/: No such file or…
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