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  • Where does IP data come from? Find the sources of IP data sets

    I’ve wondered for quite some time, how do sites like get their data? Secondly, the question I had was “Could I gather/build out the data used by these sorts of services?”. Off the bat, looking at the data, I made the assumption that the ownership data is stored publicly or “premiumly” that I could access, but where? So I did some digging around and below is some the datasets I discovered. ICANN runs IANA which allocates …

  • Inspecting Windows with cli! ... Windows isn't all that bad

    I’m pretty green when it comes to knowledge of windows commands & cli tools. From the security perspective, a large percent of businesses/corporations run windows on their platform, so some basic tools to introduce ideas is helpful! With the command line you can use wmic or powershell to utilize WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) which can give you insight into all sorts of things about your system! - - - Get Windows Version ```shell > wmic os …

  • Getting going with Jekyll Jumping into THE static site generator

    I’ve been wanting to start blogging for quite some time and decided to finally make the jump. I’ve created countless WordPress sites for clients but wanted to go a different route for my own blog. I wanted to use a system that was simple and light and something I didn’t need a db for. I wanted something that would let me write markdown files and generate the site from there. Nowadays there are so many [static …