Reporting (again)

There's something about writing reports that stimulates the creative thoughts. Wracking your brains for a better way to word a finding really gets the mind to think about anything else. Fortunately, Thanksgiving is coming up - a great opportunity to do some small side projects and finish up the dratted CPE training that is required at KPMG, of which I have about 10 hours left. Investing 101, here I come!

Regardless, some other posts about fun stuff are bound to come by during these days.

First November post

Wow, not a single post in November yet? I'll admit to finding it difficult to muster up energy for my usual escapades. The trip to Europe was great, but mostly it made me want to quit and go travel Europe for a few months. Imagine, I've had a sweet Synology NAS since early October and still haven't set up rsync to backup my raspberry pi systems on a regular basis.

My CISSP training was cancelled due to conflicts, but at least I have the CISSP book.

Quick post from NM

Well here I am in Roswell NM, looking at the vast flat expanse of a town at 3571 foot elevation, on what used to be a military air base and is therefore really really big. Dry, pleasant weather (but cold in the evenings.)

Parsing Grepable nmap formats

I was recently tasked with finding a way to output all the IPs and associated open ports found during an engagement. My primary data source was from nmap, so that's what I used.

Here's my method (doubtless to be improved). The tips I got from scripts and files somewhere:

1. cat .gnmap | awk '{printf "%s\t", $2;
      for (i=4;i<=NF;i++) {
        split($i,a,"/");
        if (a[2]=="open") printf ",%s",a[1];}
      print ""}' | sed -e 's/,//' | sed -e 's/\t/ /' > parsed.txt

2. In Excel, either open the parsed.txt file, or in a new sheet, click the "Data" tab, and click "From Text" to open the Text Import Wizard.

3. Choose "Delimited", and click "Next".

4. In the Delimiters section, only "Space" should be checked. Click "Next".

5. Select each Column and click the "Text" radio button. It should look as below.

6. Finish Importing. If using the Text Import Wizard, click OK.

Getting GPS dongle (BU-353S4) working on Raspberry Pi

I followed this guide:

http://blog.boberglund.com/Build_GPSD_from_sources.txt

found on this forum topic: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=138711

but ultimately found something on https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=128045

To run gpsd as daemon:
cat /etc/default/gpsd
START_DAEMON="true"
GPSD_OPTIONS=""
DEVICES="/dev/ttyUSB0"
USBAUTO="false"
GPSD_SOCKET="/var/run/gpsd.sock" this I did not follow, choosing instead to include that when running