Useful commands – Windows

Disable Defender Anti-virus (admin required): Enable Defender Anti-virus (admin required): Uptime stats: Free space on disks (admin required): List all available drives: List installed patches (PowerShell): List installed software: Password policy (local): Password policy domain: List OS version and other stats: List domain controllers: Enumerate logs: Filter system logs by most recent ones:

SSD / USB Drive Encryption – Linux

In this post, I will briefly cover encryption of SSD drives, removable hard drives and USB drives. Depending on your objectives you may need to tweak certain options to achieve stronger protection, if required. Before starting the process, it is necessary to connect the drive of your choice to your Linux system. If the drive… Continue reading SSD / USB Drive Encryption – Linux

localectl – Keyboard related settings

“localectl” is a command allowing you to quickly verify the keyboard mappings settings on a Linux system and also modify the current configuration. There are times when password or known keyboard combinations do not work as expected. The first step for troubleshooting is to check what keyboard mappings and layout settings are in use on… Continue reading localectl – Keyboard related settings

ab – Apache benchmarking tool

“ab” is an Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool. Before probing further this type of server, first you need to determine some basic information about its configuration. There are multiple tools available for server fingerprinting. In this case, the tool is specifically made for Apache and it is installed by default in many Linux distributions. When… Continue reading ab – Apache benchmarking tool