Information Technology, Control, Audit and Security Experience

Oh SNAP! I have forgotten my Admin Server password for the organisations WebLogic domain. Have you ever forgot the password of WebLogic domain?  Have you been in a situation when you took over administration of the server and discovered the wrong password was handed over to you by the previous administrator who is no longer accessible? These are recurring issues experienced by Administrators. Additionally, password change can be regularly enforced by the organisations security policy forcing the admin to perform this task frequently So how do you go about achieving this? In this post I will be discussing how to reset the WebLogic password. This tutorial will focus on achieving this through the command line.

SQLServer is a relational database solution created by Microsoft. It utilises several types of login to gain access to the database namely: Windows authentication which is the default, and is often referred to as integrated security because SQL Server security model is tightly integrated with Windows. In this type of authentication Windows users who have already been authenticated do not have to present additional credentials. SQL Server authentication . In this type of login ,user name and passwords are stored in the database for authentication purposes. This type of authentication is used when you have a user not integrated with windows needs access to the database. In this post I will be showing you various techniques employed to crack password using the SQL Server authentication through port 1433 which is used for MSSQL service What is required You will need Backtrack 5 or Kali linux to run these commands Virtual machine to host the operating system where requ...

Have you ever experienced the situation where you wanted to utilise a wifi configured to connect to one machine in an entirely new machine, but couldn't remember the wifi password? In today's post we will be looking at how we can extract wifi passwords via command prompt. To get this done a utility will be used called Netsh . According to Microsoft, Netsh is a command-line scripting utility that allows you to display or modify the network configuration of a computer that is currently running. So lets get busy with these simple steps.  1. Start up the Netsh utility by opening a command prompt and typing the followikng netsh This should take you to the netsh prompt 2. Enumerate the available wifi configured on the machines by typing the following wlan show profile 3. Here we will be revealing the wifi password of " xox " by typing the following: wlan show profile xox key=clear Now under the Security settings you will see the wifi ke...