Fixing a sluggish macOS Dock
Manny FernandezSpeed Up the Dock via TerminalOpen the Terminal app (press Command + Space, type "Terminal", and hit Return). Paste the...
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Sublime Text Quick Tip: Highlight Every Line Containing a Specific Character
Manny FernandezSay you want to spot every line in a config or log file that contains a #, a !, or...
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Google Dorking: A Practitioner’s Guide to Advanced Search Reconnaissance
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: teach you how to use Google's advanced search operators to run passive reconnaissance, surfacing exposed documents, misconfigured...
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Taming Mac Sleep from the Terminal: A Practical Guide to caffeinate
Manny FernandezObjective: Show exactly what caffeinate does, which flag to reach for in which situation, and how to verify it is...
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Argus OSINT Framework: Installation and Deployment Guide for Ubuntu Server
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: stand up Argus, a Python-based open source information-gathering and reconnaissance toolkit, on Ubuntu Server so you have...
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Understanding MITRE ATT&CK A Practitioner’s Guide to Actually Using It
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary MITRE ATT&CK is not a checklist, a certification, or a product. It is a living knowledge base of...
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macOS Excel Keyboard Shortcuts
Manny FernandezExcel for Mac swaps most Windows Ctrl shortcuts for Cmd, but not all of them, and a handful of navigation...
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Workspace Mode vs. Configuration Revert Mode in FortiOS
Manny FernandezFortiOS applies a CLI change the moment you type end or next, and by default it also writes that change...
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macOS File System CLI Command Cheat Sheet
Manny FernandezmacOS file management runs on BSD userland tools sitting on top of APFS, so a lot of syntax looks like...
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FortiGate AutoScripts Deep Dive: Inside the Trigger “Fields” Block
Manny FernandezPractitioners call FortiOS's onboard automation engine a lot of things. The GUI calls it Security Fabric > Automation. The CLI...
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Decoding Every Field in a FortiGate Debug Session Output
Manny FernandezWhen something is behaving strangely on a FortiGate, whether that is a session that will not offload, NAT that looks...
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iPhone Codes to Check Forwarding of Calls and SMS Messages
Manny FernandezYour iPhone's Phone app keypad doubles as a terminal into the GSM network stack. Dial the right sequence and hit...
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Deploying Recon-ng on Ubuntu Server: A Step-by-Step Installation Guide
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: Stand up Recon-ng v5.1.2, the open source web reconnaissance framework maintained by Tim Tomes (lanmaster53), on a...
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LLDP on FortiSwitch Managed by FortiLink
Manny FernandezHere is a quick article on running lldp on your FortiSwitch. Customer had an issue today where they could not...
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Decoding Every Field in a FortiGate Traffic Log: The Complete Reference
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: Give you a field by field reference for FortiOS Traffic logs, built around a real captured log...
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Breaking Down the macOS File System: What Every Top-Level Folder Actually Does
Manny FernandezIf you have ever stared at a Terminal window wondering why /etc is actually a symlink, or why your backup...
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“match-vip enable” inside Firewall Policies
Manny FernandezThe Problem This Solves FortiGate matches policies referencing a VIP (a Virtual IP, i.e. destination NAT) with higher precedence than...
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FortiGate Quick Tip: Restoring the Two Free FortiTokens After a Factory Reset
Manny FernandezRan execute factory reset on a FortiGate and now the two free FortiToken Mobile licenses are gone from User &...
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FortiGate Wildcard Addresses: The IP Kind, Not the FQDN Kind
Manny FernandezObjective: a working reference for creating and using the wildcard address type in FortiOS, the IP-plus-wildcard-netmask object, and drawing a...
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IANA Reserved IP Address Space
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: give practitioners a working reference for the IANA IPv4 Special-Purpose Address Registry, with a deep dive on...
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