Welcome back, my hacker novitiates! If you have been following this new Snort series, you know that Snort is the world’s most widely used intrusion detection/protection system. Now a part of the world’s largest network equipment company, Cisco, it is likely to be found everywhere in one form or another. This makes a compelling argument […]
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Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers! As you should know from before, Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion detection system (IDS) in the world, and every hacker and IT security professional should be familiar with it. Hackers need to understand it for evasion, and IT security professionals to prevent intrusions. So a basic understanding of […]
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Over the past decade or so, the growth of the mobile market has been the fastest growing segment of the IT industry. We now have portable smart phones and tablets being used throughout the consumer and business market. These add an extra challenge to the forensic investigator, but can also contain a cornucopia of information […]
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For those of you who have been following my series on SCADA hacking, you are aware that SCADA/ICS systems do NOT use the usual protocols that we are accustomed to in the TCP/IP/Ethernet world. There are a over 100 different protocols being used within the SCADA/ICS world, most of which were developed to work over […]
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As most of you know, recently an entity within the NSA–or very close to the NSA–was hacked. This NSA associated group, often referred to as the Equation Group was most probably responsible for both the Stuxnet and Flame malware of a few years back. I believe that this group is the TAO (NSA’s offensive unit […]
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As you know, the Simple Network Management Protocol uses UDP ports 161 and 162 to manage network devices. Network devices use this protocol to communicate to each other and can be used by administrators to manage the devices. As hackers, if we can access the SNMP protocol, we can harvest a vast resource of information […]
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Welcome back, my fledgling hackers! As the operating system developers become more and more security conscious, operating system exploits become rarer. Not so rare that we don’t see them anymore (see ExternalBlue and the .NET vulnerability CVE-2017-8759), but rare enough that hackers tend to focus their efforts on the applications and their output files for […]
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Welcome back, my budding hackers! “How to hack online passwords” such as email, social media, authentication forms, etc. is one the budding hackers’ most frequent questions. Although it has become much more difficult in recent years, it is still possible. Here we will use two essential hacking tools to demonstrate how to hack online passwords, […]
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A few years back, Microsoft implicitly recognized the superiority of the Linux terminal over the GUI-based operating system by developing PowerShell. Since Windows 7, every Windows operating system has had PowerShell installed by default, and they even made PowerShell capable of running Linux commands on Windows! PowerShell is a powerful environment to get just about […]
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Welcome back, my Metasploit aficionados! In this series, we began with the Metasploit basics and have progressed through exploitation and creating our own custom payloads. In this tutorial, we will examine how we can proceed after having exploited a single system on a network to controlling the entire network. Very often to compromise a […]
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