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REPLACE SAFARI / CHROME BROWSERS ON IPAD / IPHONE

This is the continuation of a series of articles, that help you divorce your life from BIG TECH. With the recent events in American Politics, the need for these guides has become apparent. I hope this guide assists in your journey to protect yourself.

If you are an iPhone / iPad user, you rely heavily on either Safari, or Chrome for your daily browsing. This guide will show you how to replace it with DuckDuckGo, and below the reasons will become apparent as to why.

On your iPad
Open the App Store
Click Search
Type in DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
Click GET
Enter your Apple Password
The Application will now install

Once it has installed
Open the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
The welcome screen will appear, and it will explain the application to you.
Make sure you select Set as Default Browser
When selecting that, your Settings will open up
You will need to scroll down to DuckDuckGo and open the settings
Change Default Browser App from Safari, to DuckDuckGo
Once Done, you can Click DuckDuckGo at the top left corner of the screen to return to the app setup
Here you can now continue following the guide, which walks you through the user experience features
Key features to note are:
Your Searches ARE Anonymous
Your History is not stored after you close the app
The Fire Symbol will let you burn your browser data immediately
If Tracking cookies try to follow you, you will see the notification
Do not use google.com, as DuckDuckGo cannot stop it from tracking you, if you search from that site
You can search using the address bar instead

Enjoy safe browsing!

REMOVE GOOGLE AS IPAD SEARCH ENGINE

With the recent unrestful events, the need has arisen to migrate off BIG TECH platforms. This series of articles will assist you in that arena

Apple iPads, by default, Safari uses Google as the default search engine. To switch away from Google and over to DuckDuckGo, which does not store your personal information (see https://duckduckgo.com/?va=b&t=hc).

On the iPad:
Navigate to your “Desktop“
Open the Settings app
Scroll down to Safari and select it
In the Search Section, you will see the Search Engine is set to Google
Click the “>” next to Google
Select DuckDuckGo
Now you can close the setting app, and your settings will be saved

Google will no longer be your search engine for Safari

INSTALL NORDVPN ON PARROT OS

This is a guide on how I have installed and configured NordVPN to work on Parrot OS

Open a terminal
sudo bash
sh <(curl -sSf https://downloads.nordcdn.com/apps/linux/install.sh

After it installs type
nordvpn login
Enter your username
Enter your password

Once you are logged in type
nordvpn set killswitch on

Select the countries to vpn through by typing
nordvpn countries

Select the country
nordvpn cities Vietnam
Hanoi – will be listed

Now type:
nordvpn connect Vietnam Hanoi

Once you are done with Nord type:
nordvpn disconnect

CHANGING THE MAC ADDRESS IN PARROT OS

A simple way to prove who was attacking you, is to track their MAC address back to the hardware in their computer. This has helped prove case after case against malicious actors. One way to safeguard against this, is to change your mac address, and luckily this software is readily available in Parrot OS

To change your mac address:
Open a Terminal
Type:
sudo bash
Enter your password
ifconfig
Note the adapters you have, for this, we are going to change our WIreless adapter, named WLAN2
ifconfig WLAN2 down
macchanger -a WLAN2
ifconfig WLAN2 up

That’s it. Your mac address is now spoofed

PRIVACY4CARS – CLEAN YOUR VEHICLE’S SENSOR AND LOCATION DATA

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Your vehicle tracks you. It knows where you were, how fast you were driving, if your phone was in use, and a wealth of other information. Privacy in this digital age is paramount. Here is how you reset the data

From an iPhone (if you have an Android you can go to their website for instructions):

Download the Privacy4Cars App
Register in the App
Once you register, open the app
Enter your Vehicle’s VIN number
Select your Make / Model
Select your Radio type
Click Start Process

Follow the onscreen instructions, to reset your vehicle to the factory defaults

That’s it! Privacy unlocked

You only get 2 FREE wipes, so use them wisely

Display Wifi Passwords Stored on a Windows 10 Computer

Show All Stored Wireless Keys

Open a Command Prompt on the Windows 10 Computer and type:

netsh wlan show profiles

Identify the network you want to show the password for…Ex. HOME

netsh wlan show profile name=HOME key=clear

Look for the line that says Key Content and that will be your wireless password.

A tip for the masses. Once a user is done on your network, erase your network from their device….otherwise your password can be compromised and your privacy is at risk.

AND if you have the ability to have a guest network at your house, set it up. Keep your network secure.

ZMap and ZGrab Installation

Installing the packages on a Ubuntu 18.04 system

In the coming weeks I will be writing more about how to check the perimeter of your network, understand what data is leaking out from it, and how to safeguard your network, and especially your wallet from bad actors. These tools are the beginning, I will wrap it altogether piece by piece.

Log into your Ubuntu rig

Install zmap and zgrab

sudo bash

apt install zmap

apt install golang-go

go get github.com/zmap/zgrab

cd /home/USERNAME/go/src/github.com/zmap/zgrab

go build

Test it by running the following from a remote system, against your network

zmap -p 30303 (Your Public IP Here) –output-fields=* –output-file=results.csv | zgrab –port 30303 -banners –output-file=banners.json

Shodan.IO At A Glance

Some Helpful Search Handlers Listed Below

Within the search box on shodan.io, you can mix and match combinations of each of the following below to gather together results:

To Search by Country
country:US

To Search by Vulnerability using the CVE from HERE
vuln:CVE-2018-5281

These are self explainatory
city:”New York”
port:21,1098,389
category:malware
net:190.30.40.0/24 – ip address or range
org:”Verizon Wireless” – organization
after:”25/12/2018″ – results after a certain date
before:”25/12/2010 “– results before a certain date
os: – operating system
isp: – ISP managing their Net Block
postal: – postal code
product: – name of software or product
version: – version of software
uptime: – how long a host has been up

To Exclude Certain Results add a “-” sign
-city:”New York”



How to Revoke APP Access to Your Google Account

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Get Rid of Those Pesky Apps

The latest NVidia driver update will not download or install through the GeForce App, unless has access to your Google Account….Invasion of Privacy at it’s finest.  As soon as you have what you need, immediately revoke the access.  And ensure no other apps have access to your google account while you are logged in there

To revoke the access, go to:  https://myaccount.google.com/permissions

Click on the App that has access

Click Remove Access