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Terminal is not for mere mortals, you're probably thinking. It's a kind of a sacred knowledge that only geeks and Mac geniuses possess. But if you get through your first command line you'll find it's not that terrifying. In fact, using Terminal is like applying Harry Potter wizardry to your tasks. Once you know the right spells you can break any laws of how applications behave and do some unbelievable things that even the most experienced Mac people can't. Isn't it seducing to try?
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- Then use this fun hack: go the Terminal command line and type in “caffeinate” and press Enter. Voila, your Mac will never go to sleep again (unless you cancel this command, of course) Not only will these tips save you precious time, but it will also make you more efficient and organized and enable you to finish your work faster.
We've chosen just a few of Terminal's most impressive features. For more serious take on Mac terminal commands, check out this article. Okay, are you ready to type in your first code? To start the journey, learn how to open Terminal app on Mac: Click Launchpad and then type Terminal in the search bar.
1) Make your Mac talk to you
One of the simplest commands which can be very fun, especially when you are planning a prank on somebody. Just type any text in Terminal and your computer will speak it in your Mac's default voice. But there's about 20 voices and intonations to choose from plus the ability to convert an entire text file into speech. So here's a slick audiobook maker at your hand.
Open up Terminal, type in:
say followed by a space and any text you want to hear
2) Customize Login Message
This is what makes Mac more personal and humanized. For example, you can write an inspirational motto or helpful information for other users, if it's a public library computer. It might even be a way to retrieve your MacBook if you lose it — if you set a login message with your contact information. Once again there's much room for pranking other people, but we won't go deep into that.
Open up Terminal, type in:
sudo write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText 'Custom Text Here'
3) Watch Star Wars in Terminal app
In Terminal symbols, of course. This could be the greatest trick which makes no particular sense, but even if just for the coolness alone you should try it. The Death Star, R2D2, spaceships and the rest of the Episode 4 story retold in Terminal graphics will blow your friends away at the party. And there is no sound by the way.
Open up Terminal, type in:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
On macOS Sierra and higher macOS versions, you should use a different command:
nc towel.blinkenlights.nl 23
4) Show hidden files in Finder
This isn't as funny as the previous one, but searching for important files is no joke. With this command, you'll be able to see everything on your Mac, even files which were omitted from standard display.
Open up Terminal, type in:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
This should summon Finder with previously hidden files shown grayed out.
To reverse this operation (be aware that you may be swamped with lots of irrelevant system files) just substitute TRUE for FALSE in the command line above:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder
5) Pay a visit to a psychiatrist
Funny Mac terminal commands are many. This is a classic Easter egg type of joke macOS developers are famous for. When you're feeling stressful, talking to friendly chatbot will at least make you smile. Strangely enough, this therapy may be actually working because you are asked to verbalize your emotions, by giving them a closer look. And the psychiatrists (the real ones) will confirm that sometimes it works.
Open up Terminal, type in:
emacs and then hit Return. Press Esc, then x, and finally type doctor
6) See iTunes songs notification via Terminal app
A clever addition if you normally work with the music on the background. If you fell in love with a particular track from your playlist you don't need to open iTunes to find out the artist's name. It will pop up on your Mac Dock from now on. Though a bit strange this feature isn't included by default because it's really a timesaver.
Open up Terminal, type in:
defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE
Close the dock using the following command:
killall Dock
7) Play simple games
This is another retro cool feature to cheer you up once in a while. You can play Tetris, Pong, Snake and a dozen of other arcade games. Once you have unlocked these nice hidden toys, you'll surely get to love your Mac more. Prepare to use your arrow keys.
Open up Terminal, type in:
emacs. Press Enter to open it up, press Esc then x. Now you have to type the name of the particular game and that's it.
Game names:
- tetris
- pong
- snake
- solitaire
- 5x5
- landmark
- doctor
What you learn from using Mac Terminal commands is that nothing is really impossible if you're on a Mac. But it's better to start your Terminal experience with these funny little tricks and then go to something serious. This program has a nearly infinite number of magic spells to choose from.
8) Make your Mac faster and more responsive
Okay, this has nothing to do with Terminal. But who wouldn’t want their MacBook as speedy and efficient as back then, on its first day? Surprisingly, this can be achieved easily, Terminal-style way — with aid of CleanMyMac X.
- Remove up to 74 GB of junk from your Mac
- Uninstall unwanted apps completely
- Speed up Mac with maintenance scripts
- Fully clean browsers and messengers
Download the app from developer’s site for free
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Introduction
Do you know, its easy is to hack the Instagram account of your friend and hijack his or her Instagram cookies. This is one of the tricks used by hackers to steal your Instagram account. Whenever we logged into any website suppose Instagram, the Instagram server stores small piece code (also called web cookie) in our browsers. As commented by the researcher of the International Institute of Cyber Security, “If we are able to steal or Hijack these web cookies (we got after authenticating/logging on Instagram), we can log in to the Instagram account of that person“.
Today we will show, how easy is it to get the cookies of authenticated/logged user of a particular website that can be your friend or relative using the Self-XSS hacking tool. Self-XSS uses social engineering tool and using this hacker can gain control of the victims’ Instagram account.
Environment
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- OS: Kali Linux 2019.3 64 bit
- Kernel version: 5.2.0
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Installation Steps
- Use this command to clone the project.
- git clone https://github.com/thelinuxchoice/self-xss
- Use the cd command to enter into self-xss directory
- Now, use this command to launch the tool bash self-xss.sh
- After Launching the tool, first we have to enter the website name whose account we want to hack. In our case, it will be https://instagram.com
- Next, enter the Email and password details.
- Then the tool will downloads the Ngrok server automatically and start the PHP server and Ngrok server.
- Then it will give to malicious URL as we can see in the above picture.
- Now, send this malicious code to the victim using social engineering tricks and ask the victim to open this link in the same Instagram Browser Tab.
- The Malicious code will captures the Instagram cookies and IP Address details of the victim and sends back to the hacker.
- Now go to hacker machine where self-XSS is running.
- go to cd /home/iicybersecurity/self-xss
- To verify, use the cat command to view the details of the cookies.
- cat cookies.backup
- We go the Instagram cookies.
- Now use cat command to view the IP and browser details .
- cat saved.ip.txt
Here, we successfully got the victims IP address with Machine details and victim’s Instagram cookies.
Conclusion
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Now, we saw how to find the cookies details of the victim using a self-XSS in combination with social engineering. So it is always recommended to never click on any suspicious link, and that too when you are logged into any social networking website or any other website.