Welcome back, my budding hackers! One of the most popular areas for those starting out in this discipline is hacking Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi has been rife with vulnerabilities and insecurities over the years and nearly everyone wants to take advantage of this. When Wi-Fi was first developed in the late 90’s, the original encryption/security standard, Wired […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! In this series, we are exploring the myriad of ways to hack web applications. As you know, web applications are those apps that run the websites of everything from your next door neighbor’s website, to the all-powerful financial institutions that run the world. Each of these applications is vulnerable […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Kali Linux is the operating system of choice for aspiring hackers and advanced hackers as well. Developed by Offensive Security, it contains many of the tools a hacker needs to get started. Recently, Offensive Security released a new version of Kali Linux nominally known as Kali Linux 2020.2. They […]
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In some cases, the forensic investigator will need to grab an image of the live memory. Remember, RAM is volatile and once the system is turned off, any information in RAM will be likely lost. This information may include passwords, processes running, sockets open, clipboard contents, etc. All of this information must be captured before […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! On July 4, 2020 (US Independence Day), F5 released a security patch for their BIG-IP systems that allows the attacker to take control of the affected systems. This vulnerability is rated a 10/10 in severity and assigned CVE-2020-5902. This vulnerability is so severe that an attacker with even rudimentary skills […]
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Most of the work we will be doing in reverse engineering will be with assembler language. This simple and sometimes tedious language can reveal a plethora of information on the source code. When we can’t see or recover the source code of the malware or other software, we can use tools such as dis-assemblers and […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! In earlier posts here at Hackers-Arise, I introduced you to Splunk, an excellent tool for managing all your machine-generated data. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Splunk to generate real-time alerts on just about any machine-data condition that arises on your system or network. Splunk […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warrior! There is SO much data on the Internet that the issue not IF the data is available, but rather where. At times, we may want to track flights in an investigation. You may want to track the flights of powerful and nefarious individuals or track military flights. Maybe you […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! In my book “Getting Started Becoming a Master Hacker” and an earlier post, I encouraged you to develop custom password lists before you attempt to brute force passwords. Most often, users create passwords that are simple, common, and follow simple patterns that are easy for them to remember. If […]
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Welcome back, my greenhorn hackers! In previous tutorials, we have looked at ways to re-encode your payloads and other malware to evade AV software. We have also looked at the inner workings of Clam AV to better understand how this type of software works. Sometimes, we can encode our malware with applications such as Shellter […]
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