Our smartphones are the reservoirs of our life. They contain so much personal and business information that anyone who can get into our smartphones will lay our life bare. It is clear that some national governments and employers are now spying on our smartphone activity. If one can compromise our cell phones they basically have […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was submitted by Skrub, a loyal reader from my Null Byte days. Although he submitted it as two separate articles, I combined them into a single article with two parts. Enjoy! This is my first article on Hackers-Arise, it’s based off of a project that I’m working on at school which […]
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In recent years, automobiles have become increasingly sophisticated. Most cars now have numerous integrated circuits (ICs) and a lots of software, both to optimize the vehicle operation (fuel and oxygen consumption, anti-lock brakes, automatic sensing and braking systems, for instance) and amenities for the owners. With this increased complexity and sophistication has come increased vulnerability. […]
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The FBI has posted a “Most Wanted Cyber Criminal” list. I hope you aren’t on it. OTW
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We have our first community post on Hackers-Arise. G was gracious and generous enough to offer this short tutorial on installing Kali 2.0 on VirtualBox. If you have an article you would like to submit to Hackers-Arise, send it to admin-hackers-arise@protonmail.com OTW Hey guys! I’m G. Recently, I finally decided to check out Kali 2.0 […]
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Welcome back, Mr. Robot fans! In the first episode of season 2 of Mr. Robot (eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc), the hackers of f/society took control of the SmartHome of the General Counsel (the in-house, lead attorney) of Evil Corp. This woman’s elegant home, in the tony Greenwich Village section of New York City, had everything automated including the […]
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SCADA sites are among the most vulnerable sites on the planet. These sites include industrial control systems, water treatment facilities, nuclear power plants, the electrical grid and just about any other industrial facility. These sites are likely to be the targets in any cyber war, or worse, targets of a cyber terrorist attack. Although we […]
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Welcome back, my hacker novitiates! With this lab, we will conduct recon on a SCADA target using port scanning and nmap scripts. Up until this point we have used passive recon using Shodan and Google dorks, but now we will be using a more active approach to find SCADA systems and do some active reconnaissance […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Previously, I wrote a tutorial on using Shodan–the world’s most dangerous search engine–to find unprotected web cams. As you know, Shodan simply scans the world’s IP addresses and pulls the banner and then indexes those banners. We can then search through Shodan for the parameters revealed in those banners […]
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Welcome back, my greenhorn hackers! In an earlier tutorial, I introduced you to Splunk for Security Monitoring. In this installment, we will examine the Splunk Processing Langauage or SPL. This is the language built into Splunk for searching for specific information among all the machine data that Splunk has gathered and indexed for us. Without […]
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