Posted inApple
Understanding an IOS/Apple iPhone “exploit”
Apple exploits (and for that matter, any platform exploits) are a plenty. But most of them are fun, and as long as you can play around with them and understand…
Posted inHacking
Anatomy of a good Social Engineering/Phishing attack!
Social Engineering and Phishing has been around for donkeys' years now. While really sophisticated attacks are usually designed and prepped months, sometimes years in advance, and can be brutally effective,…
esxtop annoyances – MAC
esxtop does not like to work on the Mac out of the box. And this has nothing to do with the OS itself! Read on to find out what exactly…
Posted inEverything Else Publish
The Facebook Conundrum
This is a non technical blog. Well, "technical", if you are into systems and processes though. The whole Facebook WhatsApp Instagram Signal Telegram conversation and mess essentially ended up in…
Resetting esxi root password
OK, so people are reaching out for resetting ESXi password as the old blog of mine isn't there anymore http://www.vdsyn.com/resetting-the-root-password-for-esxi-5-x/ Ok this was on ESXi 6.5 - need to test…
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Facebook and Privacy
Let's face it (see what I did there?) a lot of people are actually leaving Facebook. I know I have, and it hasn't been as easy. It has been hard.…
Can ESXi hosts upgrade via Commandline on Nutanix?
Well, this is thoroughly a fun pet experiment - just to tinker around and see what breaks :-) Should you be trying this on a prod cluster? Holy !@#$ no!…
Upgrading ESXi 7.0.x from the command line
So, you are done with https://www.thevfanatic.com/understanding-esxi-7-0-1-upgrades-command-line/ and are now aching to see what a successful upgrade looks like? Fear not! We have a successful upgrade to feast our eyes on!…
Understanding ESXi 7.0.1 upgrades – command line
So ESXi upgrades can be done in a variety of ways. You could use the Update manager, use the ISO in IPMI - but then the most fun way (for…
Those Pesky ESXi 7.0.x log files :-)
Well, ESXi 7.0 is upon us, and so are new Logs :-) If you have been poking around the ESXi's guts and can't comprehend what those shiny new logs are,…
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Chrome – NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID
Ever tried setting up a Nutanix or VMware lab and Chrome just cr*ps out on you? With nonsense like "Your connection is not private" NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID - whatever in God's name…
IPMI time zone using ipmitool
Using ipmitool to find BMC/IPMI timezone that is set
