Welcome back, my aspiring network forensic investigators! Now that you have a basic understanding of Wireshark and have conducted an analysis of a malware attack using Wireshark, let’s expand our purview of network attacks to that critical but often overlooked area of IT security, SCADA/ICS security. Unlike most attacks on IT security, attacks on SCADA/ICS […]
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Welcome back, my hacker apprentices! Network forensics is key element of most digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) investigations. When our systems have been compromised by an attacker, its up the DFIR investigator to determine the who, what, where and how of the attack. In other words, what can a DFIR investigator learn about the […]
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Welcome back, my novice hackers! In this series on Web App Hacking, we are examining multiple ways to hack web sites and web applications. In this particular tutorial we will examine directory or path traversal. In this type of attack, the hacker is able to get access files on the underlying server that might be […]
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Welcome back my rookie hackers! Every so often, I run across a new hacking tool that really gets me excited. Autosploit is one of those! Autosploit combines the power of two of my favorite tools, Shodan and Metasploit! AutoSploit uses Shodan to find specific targets based upon their banners and then Metasploit to automate the […]
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The worst thing that can happen to any hacker is being detected by a security admin, the security technologies (IDS, firewall, etc.), or a forensic investigator. Every time we send a packet to our intended target, that packet contains our IP address in the IP header. When we make a TCP connection, the target system […]
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Welcome back, my novice hackers! A few years back (2016 precisely) a major hack took place that had significant repercussions around the world. This was a hack of the servers at Mossack Fonseca, a major law firm in Panama and became know as the Panama Papers hack. This law firm specializes in assisting the rich […]
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Welcome back my novice hackers! Recently, I have received numerous questions regarding how to update the msfconsole built into Kali. Until recently that was an easy question to answer. You simply enter “msfupdate” at the command line. Now, Rapid7–the developers of Metasploit– have changed how we update Metasploit when it is built into an operating […]
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In this series, I have been trying to familiarize you with the many features of the world’s best framework for exploitation, hacking, and pentesting, Metasploit. There are so many features, and techniques for using those features, that few pentesters/hackers are aware of all of them. Many times, when doing a pentest/hack, we need to run […]
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Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers! Do you need to get a Wi-Fi password but don’t have the time to crack it? In previous tutorials, I have shown how to crack WEP, WPA2, and WPS, but some people have complained that cracking WPA2 takes too long and that not all access points have WPS enabled (even […]
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SCADA and Industrial Control Sites (ICS) are among the most crucial and most vulnerable sites. These sites include everything from nuclear power plants, to home HVAC systems and everything in between. The security of these systems is slightly different than traditional IT systems. In traditional IT systems we are protecting the data. With SCADA/ICS systems […]
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