FTP on Mac OS X High Sierra

Mac OS X High Sierra stopped supporting telnet and ftp. To get it back you can use homebrew and install that way with the following commands # Install Homebrew (http://brew.sh) /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" # Install inetutils homebrew install inetutils

Free Security for Home PCs

Here are some links for free tools to protect your home PC Microsoft Security Essentials and Safety Scanner http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx Windows Defender http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offline Immunet http://www.immunet.com/main/index.html

Reseting Outlook if it doesn't start

Recently had a problem with Outlook on the Mac. It would try to start and die every single time. I found the link below that said to click Option-Outlook to start it and recreate the database. That did the trick for me. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macoutlook/outlook-wont-open-splash-screen-comes-up-briefly/35a2d605-bb39-4100-ac2d-137111dec2cb

Ways of determining MD5 hash

The following methods can be used to determin the MD5 hash of a file. Openssl ./openssl dgst md5 Microsoft FCIW sha256deep64 Linux md5sum

How to Uninstall Wireshark

Just installed Wireshark on my new Mac Book Pro and saw the instructions to remove Wireshark. Good to know... How do I uninstall? 1. Remove /Applications/Wireshark 2. Remove the wrapper scripts from /usr/local/bin 3. Remove /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF 4. Remove the access_bpf group.

Tomahawk IPS testing tool

Tomahawk is a great testing tool to test the functionality of an IPS. More information is available at http://tomahawk.sourceforge.net

Allowing VNC Access from ESXi

The following posts provide great details on how to allow VNC access to virtual machines using the IP address of the ESXi host Enabling VNC access VM https://www.netiq.com/documentation/cloudmanager22/ncm22_reference/data/bxzaz5n.html http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/using-vnc-console-access-ise-and-other-vms