Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Often, when doing a pentest, we have multiple Wi-Fi access points to test for security. Rather than testing each one individually with tools such as aircrack-ng, Reaver, pyrit, and hcxdumptool, and others, we can automate that testing with a single tool such as wifite. Wifite enables us to test all […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring OSINT investigators! There are a multitude of tools to scrape email addresses from various locations, but theHarvester is one of the best! It’s easy to use and effective. In addition, it is even better at enumerating subdomains than many of tools specifically designed for that purpose. Unlike some of the other […]
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Hacking is the new martial art of the 21st century. To become a master hacker, you must think strategically and analytically. Master OTW offers some of his strategic wisdom for the novice hacker that every hacker should be armed with before doing battle. 1. Fools are always speaking. The wise listen. 2. Hacking is a […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! In this tutorial, we will examine what happens if that update or upgrade is hijacked by a malicious entity. All of our systems, periodically download upgrades and updates trusting that these are coming from the software developer. What if they were not? What if these updates/upgrades were coming from a […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! In the first part of this series, Cryptography Basics for Hackers, we reviewed each of the many types of encryption. One of those types is hashing or one-way encryption. Hashing is used throughout cybersecurity to ensure integrity for such things as software downloads, passwords, and digital certificates. In digital forensics, […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring automobile hackers! Now that we laid out the basics of the most common protocol used in automobiles, the Controller Area Network or CAN, we can now proceed to installing the can-utils. can-utils is a Linux specific set of utilities that enables Linux to communicate with the CAN network on the vehicle. […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! As hackers, we instinctively want to know as much as possible. Among this desired information may be the Geo-Location of an IP address. Thankfully for us, our friends over at MaxMind have built a database that’ll do just that! Thing is, if we want to use it, we have to […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! The Internet is the deepest and widest data repository in the history of the world! Those who can extract and cultivate intelligence from it, will be empowered like none other! This data can be used for offensive security and forensic investigations, among many other applications. Crosslinked is one more […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! As cyberwarriors, we are often faced with the hurdle or promise of cryptography and encryption. Every cyber security engineer worth their pocket protector understands that encryption make the hacker/attacker’s task much more difficult. In addition, in some cases it may be useful to the attacker to hide their actions and […]
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Welcome back, my fledgling hackers! Hacking has a long and storied history in the U.S. and around the world. It did not begin yesterday, or even at the advent of the 21st century, but rather dates back at least 40 years. Of course, once the Internet migrated to commercial use in the 1990s, hacking went […]
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