What’s up!

Today we will be looking at a fast and free solution for disk cloning on Windows using some software from the guys at Macrium. The specific software we will use is called Reflect X Home, although they do have other solutions ready for deployment.

You will have to register on their website to activate the free trial for 30 days. Then you should be good to go!

The tool itself it really easy to use, but I will guide you on how to do it below…

Before starting, we’ll make sure to have a few things that will certainly be helpful throughout the process.

Let’s begin!

What’s up?

In this post we will learn how to secure our VPN so that it doesn’t leak any traffic.

If you have ever used a VPN for geolocation specific sites or applications, you might have run into the issue where your VPN turns off and suddenly you are connecting to that application using your main connection which can lead to minor interruptions from that site or application or even becoming blocked.

A solid setup can be the differential preventing this from happening and that is what we will learn how to configure in this post using some basic Windows firewall rules.

Let’s begin.

Hello guys.

In this post we’ll take a look at how to setup Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows and Linux. This setup is mainly for a series of SQL injection labs that I’ll be posting in the upcoming days (you’ll find the link for the HTML/PHP below). For this reason, it will be a development setup not a secure one. 😉

What will be covered:

• Installation of Apache, MySQL and PHP
• Configuration of each service where needed
• Creating MySQL user, database and grant privileges
• Download HTML/PHP pages and configure it properly

Since I’ll be doing a series of SQL injection posts, I figured it would make sense to create this post given that understanding the installation process, database users/permissions all contribute to the vulnerability.

With that said, let’s begin!

What’s going on guys?

I got a nice and short tutorial this time for coding a time-lapse wallpaper using Python 3 – kind of like a customizable live wallpaper.

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you might remember of a Python background changer for dual monitors I made a while back.

Well, this tutorial is kind of building up on that post. Remember, if you just want to download the files, head down to the end of the post.

Time-lapse Wallpaper

Now that pretty much any smartphone already comes with built-in time-lapse features in their cameras and software, I thought:

“Wouldn’t it be cool to have a little script to instantly turn any time-lapses into a wallpaper? That can’t be too difficult!” 😀

That is basically the story for this video tutorial.

It turns out, it wasn’t too difficult after all, just about ~40 lines of code in Python 3 – with some comments here and there, so maybe even 30ish.

What’s up guys? Got a sweet and short tutorial for you today!

Before we begin, I want to clarify this tutorial is for Windows 10. I’m pretty sure it should work for other Windows version as well. I will probably make a Linux version for it soon too, so watch out for it! If you’re interested in it for a different operating system, leave a comment below.

Also, if you just want the script and don’t care about the article, head all the way down to the end of the post where you will find a download for either the Python 2.7 version or Python 3 scripts. Please watch the video though, so you know the instructions to get the script working (its easy!).

Yesterday I was looking for a way to automatically change the background / wallpaper of both my monitors using a Python script (every X seconds).

Although I was able to find a few sources to change the background, it would change the background for both of my monitors at once.

I then ran into this stackoverflow post, where a user replied suggesting merging two images into one and then setting the background as a tiled image using Win32 API functions – thank you fine sir.

Well, luckily I had some previous experience with Win32 API and its functionality under Python and I also had some experience working with images in Python using Python Imaging Library (PIL).

I decided this could be a fun little challenge and set out to do it. 😉