HopMatrix: A great little tool packed with features
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: Get HopMatrix installed, verified, and working across all eight of its modes, then fold it into a...
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Configuring RIP on FortiGate: Neighbors, Authentication, and Route Control
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: Stand up RIPv2 between two FortiGates, advertise their LANs, lock the adjacency down with MD5 authentication through...
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Understanding the output of “dia debug app ike” on a FortiGate Firewall
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Every FortiGate IPsec write-up tells you to run diagnose debug application ike -1 and move on. That works,...
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“diagnose ip route match”: The FortiGate Kernel Route Lookup, Decoded
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary get router info routing-table all tells you what the routing daemon believes. diagnose ip route match tells you...
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Mastering grep on the FortiGate CLI: Every Switch, Explained
Manny FernandezIf you live in the FortiGate CLI, grep is the difference between scrolling through 4,000 lines of show output and...
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Follow the SNI: Troubleshooting SSL/TLS Connections on FortiGate
Manny FernandezUsing Server Name Indication to diagnose broken sites, missed exemptions, and mis-categorized HTTPS traffic Executive Summary When an HTTPS site...
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Wildcard FQDNs on FortiGate: CDNs, Web Filter, and SSL Exemptions
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Item Detail Objective Explain how a FortiGate populates a wildcard FQDN address object when the domain is served...
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Fixing a sluggish macOS Dock
Manny FernandezSpeed Up the Dock via TerminalOpen the Terminal app (press Command + Space, type "Terminal", and hit Return). Paste the...
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Installing the Argus OSINT Framework on macOS
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Argus (jasonxtn/Argus) is a Python based, all in one reconnaissance toolkit built around a single interactive CLI shell...
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Windows 11 Keyboard Shortcuts: The Practitioner’s Cheat Sheet
Manny FernandezWindows 11 has well over a hundred keyboard shortcuts, but most people only ever learn five or six of them...
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Deploying and Running Mole on macOS: A Practitioner’s Guide
Manny FernandezA practitioner's guide to installing and running the open source mo command-line cleanup and monitoring tool. Objective: Walk through a...
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Deploying Vorssaint on macOS: Installation, Feature Bundles, and Permission Hardening
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: install Vorssaint cleanly on an Apple Silicon Mac, choose the feature bundle that matches how the machine...
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MacUpdater Is Dead: What Actually Updates Your Mac Apps in 2026
Manny FernandezFor eight years, MacUpdater was the closest thing macOS had to a universal patch manager. Scan the Mac, compare installed...
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Sublime Text Quick Tip: Highlight Every Line Containing a Specific Character
Manny FernandezSay you want to spot every line in a config or log file that contains a #, a !, or...
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Google Dorking: A Practitioner’s Guide to Advanced Search Reconnaissance
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: teach you how to use Google's advanced search operators to run passive reconnaissance, surfacing exposed documents, misconfigured...
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Taming Mac Sleep from the Terminal: A Practical Guide to caffeinate
Manny FernandezObjective: Show exactly what caffeinate does, which flag to reach for in which situation, and how to verify it is...
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Argus OSINT Framework: Installation and Deployment Guide for Ubuntu Server
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary Objective: stand up Argus, a Python-based open source information-gathering and reconnaissance toolkit, on Ubuntu Server so you have...
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Understanding MITRE ATT&CK A Practitioner’s Guide to Actually Using It
Manny FernandezExecutive Summary MITRE ATT&CK is not a checklist, a certification, or a product. It is a living knowledge base of...
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macOS Excel Keyboard Shortcuts
Manny FernandezExcel for Mac swaps most Windows Ctrl shortcuts for Cmd, but not all of them, and a handful of navigation...
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Workspace Mode vs. Configuration Revert Mode in FortiOS
Manny FernandezFortiOS applies a CLI change the moment you type end or next, and by default it also writes that change...
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