Many of my readers ask me for recommendations on products that I use. Beginning with this post I will list products that I endorse. In ALL cases, these will be be products that I actually use and endorse, not simply advertisements for anything, like you will find in nearly every other website. If don’t use […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring White Hat Hackers! In this series on the world’s most popular exploitation framework, Metasploit, we have looked at the many ways to get started, including; 1. Getting Started and Keywords 2. Modules 3. Payloads 4. Connecting the postgresql Database 5. Scanning and Reconnaissance Before we advance to exploitation, I want to […]
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Today, Hackers-Arise announced the purchase of the Snort Training Institute! The Snort Training Institute is the premier training organization for the world’s most widely used Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Now, with the inclusion of the Snort Training Institute, Hackers-Arise will be able to offer the best offensive AND defensive cyber security training. All Snort Training […]
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In an earlier article, I laid out some of the varied methods of risk assessment in SCADA/ICS systems from academia, government and industry groups. As I pointed out there, SCADA/ICS risk estimation is especially difficult and nebulous. The probabilities of an event are difficult-to-impossible to obtain and the consequences of the event are sometimes so […]
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SCADA/ICS security is probably the most important and most overlooked field of cyber security. In an era where cyber warfare is an everyday occurrence and cyber terrorism is an ongoing threat, these huge industrial facilities have large bulleyes on their backs. In some cases, taking down or disrupting just one of these plants could cost […]
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Scripting skills are essential to ascend to the upper echelons of the hacker clique. Without scripting skills, you are dependent upon others to develop your tools. When others develop your tools, you will always be behind the curve in the battle against security admins. Remember, there is an ongoing chess match between the security admins […]
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The recent CIA data dump from Wikileaks named Vault7, reveals many things about the CIA’s cyber intelligence efforts. For my part, the revelation that much of the malicious code that the CIA uses to spy on foreign nationals from around the world, uses “snippets” of code from known public malware was among one of the […]
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Introduction One of the most crucial activities involved in securing SCADA/ICS systems is the initial Risk Assessment. Risk assessment is considered one of the industry’s Best Practices. If you presently work in information security, you are probably aware that risk assessment can be slippery and nebulous concept. Identifying and quantifying risk in any information technology […]
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To ascend the upper echelons of Master Hacker, you MUST develop scripting skills. It’s all great and well to use other hackers’ tools, but to get and maintain the upper hand, you must develop your own unique tools, and you can only do that by developing your scripting skills. The History of Perl Probably the […]
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WordPress is the most ubiquitous of the Content Management Systems for building websites. According to WordPress, this CMS is used in 27% of the top 10 million websites! That gives us lots of fertile ground to cultivate in our hacking adventures! Built on PHP, Apache and MySQL, it provides developers a simple and easy to […]
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