Welcome back, my Metasploit Cyber Warriors! Although Metasploit is an “exploitation framework” primarily used for hacking and penetration testing, it can also be used to provide some rudimentary forensic capabilities. It’s primary usefulness as a forensic tool is to gather evidence from a remote system when the physical system is unavailable to the investigator. In […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring Metasploit Cyber Warriors! Recently, Rapid7, the developers of the world’s most popular exploitation framework Metasploit, released a totally new rebuild! It’s been almost 8 years since Metasploit 4 and it could not have come at a better time! Rapid7 has made some important changes to Metasploit to make it easier to […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! In this series on Web App Hacking, we continue to explore ways to hack web applications (apps). In this tutorial, we will explore Cross Site Request Forgeries or CSRF. CSRF is an attack where the attacker inherits the credentials and privileges of the legitimate user to redirect the browser […]
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Welcome back, my neophyte hackers! In the world of information security, the most common intrusion detection system (IDS) you will ever encounter is Snort. As you probably already know, an IDS works similarly to antivirus (AV) software on your desktop; It attempts to identify malicious software on your network and warns you of its presence. […]
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As Mr Robot races to the conclusion of Season 3, Elliot is determined to stop the Dark Army from doing any more damage. The Dark Army, led by White Rose, has blown up 71 buildings. As you remember, Elliot’s system has been compromised and he wants to trace the malware back to its source and […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring Cyber Warriors! In this series–Web App Hacking–we are exploring the many ways that an attacker can compromise Web Applications. In this tutorial, we will explore using Local File Inclusion or LFI. Many scripting languages used in web applications support the use of include() function. These make it easy for the developer […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Hackers-Arise just announced its first annual cyber warrior tutorial contest! Anyone is eligible to enter and the deadline is March 30. First prize is $500, a Subscriber spot at Hacker-Arise and an intern position here at Hackers-Arise. Second prize is a Subscriber spot and a autographed copy of Master […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Much of what we have done here in this Metasploit Basics series enables us to exploit and control a remote system anywhere on the planet earth (or at least any machine connected to the Internet on planet earth). In some cases, we may want to control a system that […]
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Reconnaissance is crucial for successful hacking/pentesting. Maltego is a unique tool for finding data via open source information across the world wide web and displaying the relationships between this information in a graphical format. From Paterva’s, Maltego’s developer, own web page, they describe Maltego as; “Maltego is an interactive data mining tool that renders directed […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring hackers! As I often say, reconnaissance is a crucial part of hacking. You must carefully and thoroughly gather information on the target before attacking, otherwise you are usually wasting your time and risking detection. There are many tools for this purpose many of which I have demonstrated here such as nmap, […]
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