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try and catch boto3 client exceptions

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43354059/catching-boto3-clienterror-subclass If you're using the client you can catch the exceptions like this: import boto3 def exists(role_name): clien...

Posted by Scratches on September 4, 2022

AWS CLI Filters and Queries

delete aws backup recovery points, so you can delete the vault #!/bin/bash set -e echo "Enter the name of the vault where all backups should be deleted." read VAULT_NAME for ARN in $(aws backu...

Posted by Scratches on September 3, 2022

Reconnaissance Tools

get info about domains/websites There are hundreds of tools relevant to security assessments, network reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing. Security distributions specia...

Posted by Scratches on September 2, 2022

Password Crackers

PASSWORD CRACKERS Although there are some Windows tools, including the infamous Cain and L0phtcrack (l0phtcrack.com) tools, most password crackers run primarily on Linux. Additionally, John the Ri...

Posted by Scratches on September 2, 2022

AWS CLI describe-images from describe-instances

aws ec2 describe-images --owner amazon --image-id $(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids i-05e7e29b0d2d2a58c --query "Reservations[0].Instances[0].ImageId" --output text) --query "Images[0].Na...

Posted by Scratches on September 2, 2022

Ansible playbooks and templates

ansible playbook to replace text in config file 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 --- - hosts: labservers become: yes handlers: - name: restart apache service: name=...

Posted by Scratches on September 1, 2022

Ansible playbooks and templates - part two

Use a variable in a playbook 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 --- - hosts: localhost vars: inv_file: /home/ansible/vars/inv.txt tasks: - name: file: path: {{ inv_file }} sta...

Posted by Scratches on August 30, 2022

Boom Load Tester Tips

Run Boom against localhost passing a custom header 30 concurrent requests, total requests of 3000 boom http://localhost/ --header Host:test-website.example.com -c 30 -n 3000 Server Software:...

Posted by Scratches on August 29, 2022

MySql Tips

reset mysql root password 1. Stop Service 2. mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & mysql UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('the-pw') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; \q 3...

Posted by Scratches on June 12, 2022

Nginx Tips

Create Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Nginx mkdir /etc/nginx/ssl openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 \ -keyout /etc/nginx/ssl/private.key \ -out /etc/nginx/ssl/public....

Posted by Scratches on June 11, 2022