Any ideas how could I’ve been ransomware hacked?

A couple of days ago our clients reported our Solarwinds website was down. So I connected to check through remote desktop and there it was, a fullscreen html-like interface where you could only use the mouse to type using the interface buttons. Fullscreen html-like interface Our team first action was to isolate the cluster from … Read more

Cannot run “Automation Anywhere” exe files from console (session 0) on Windows Server 2003 64 bit

I have a simple exe created from an Automation Anywhere task that displays a message box saying hello world. I created this simple exe just for debugging the following issue. When I log in to the console (session 0), and run the Automation Anywhere created executable, it starts to run the task, it shows up … Read more

Application upgrade triggered from web application on Ubuntu/Linux

On my ubuntu server I have an application MyApp which runs as a daemon with its own user myapp. Then I have a web application MyPortal which runs in apace httpd as user www-data. This application serves a web page with a Redeploy MyApp button. When clicking this button I want to start the script … Read more

Windows: create a service for running a executable jar with out any external libraries

I have spring boot executable jar file which can run into any command prompt by calling java -jar filename.jar. I want to create a service with out downloading any external libraries for the above code snippet. Help me if there is a strait forward way. Answer I want to create a service with out downloading … Read more

Running a command in Powershell and running the exe gives different results

This is really odd. I have a so called Perforce Helix server on my Windows 2016 server. Now on this server there is an exe called p4d now if i go to the Powershell and run p4d it runs the command starts the “correct” server and i am able to connect and see all my … Read more

Change language properties 7z sfx self extracting .exe with 7zSFX Builder

I use the 7zSFX Builder program to build my executable .exe from a .7z and even though I always select English in the settings (and everything else), the properties of the executable show Russian. 7zSFX Builder was abandoned and is no longer supported, so I will not get a response from the creator or the … Read more

Why would a web server set the content type of a redirect to application\octet-stream

I have taken steps to prevent software from being downloaded from the Internet as it was being abused by students. This was implemented using ISA 2006’s Content Type filter condition “Application”. Amongst many other MIME types it included application\octet-stream. This hasn’t proven a problem for the most part, most web-servers provide a less generic content-type … Read more

How to start binary file from Systemd service

So, I have start.sh file to start imagecache service. And I have executable binary file “imgproxy” and I need start it and pass to it two parameters like as text file. Body of start.sh file: export IMGPROXY_LOCAL_FILESYSTEM_ROOT=”/home/filestorage/media” export IMGPROXY_BIND=”:9608″ ./home/tools/imgproxy/imgproxy -keypath ./home/tools/imgproxy/key.txt -saltpath ./home/tools/imgproxy/salt.txt ExecStartPre=nohup /bin/bash /home/tools/imgproxy/start.sh </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & I starts it with … Read more