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49. Cheat Sheets

49.6 Quick Combined Revision Card

Ek dense card – situation bagha, tool recall, Blue control. Print kara. Samjla ka?

SituationLinux / MySQL / Nmap / MSF recallBlue control
Need listening ports on OWN hostLinux: ss -tulpnClose unexpected; firewalld/SG
Patch Amazon Linuxsudo yum update -ySchedule; reboot if kernel needs
Restart httpd after config testsudo apachectl configtest then sudo service httpd restartNever reload blind
SSH hardenKeys; PasswordAuthentication no; sudo service sshd restartfail2ban; restrict SG source
MySQL only localbind-​address=​127.​0.​0.​1; app user GRANT minimalDeny 3306 from internet
Avoid wipe UPDATESET SQL_​SAFE_​UPDATES=​1; + WHERE on keyBackups; change tickets
SQLi in PHP form(App) prepared statements – ch29Least DB priv; input allow-lists
Map OWN lab host portssudo nmap -​sS -​T2 -​p 22,​80,​443,​3306 192.​168.​56.​20 -​oN …Alert mindset for mass SYN
Version banners on OWN VMnmap -sV -T2 …Patch old banners first
Understand attacker module flowMSF: search → use → set RHOSTS/LHOST → check → exploit (Metasploitable only)Patch; disable service; re-scan
Lab evidence packnmap -oA; tar -czvf; note hashesKeep under ~/labs/; no real org names
Disk full / logs gonedf -h; du -sh; rotate logsAlert on disk; immutable log mindset ch31
Red team (attacker) does Blue team (defender) detects / stops
Revises only Red flags from this card Revises situation + Blue column aloud weekly
Mixes cafe IP into Nmap/MSF lines Hard-codes host-only examples in notebook

Ravindra Bagale's Tip

Stick the combined card on the wall – but highlight the Blue column. In exams and interviews, “situation → control” is stronger than a “tool dump”. A blank Blue column = incomplete. This wins. Remember this.

Lab

With Amir or Zoya: quiz ten random rows from the combined card. Answer format: (1) commands, (2) one Blue sentence, (3) which OWN IP you would type. Wrong IP range = restart the quiz.