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Vulnerability Scanning: Automatic Search For Known CVEs With CVEScannerV2

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025Occupy The Web

Welcome back, aspiring cyberwarriors! During reconnaissance, our goal is to identify vulnerable services within our target’s network. To streamline this process, CVEScannerV2 was developed – a powerful Nmap script that bridges the gap between network scanning and vulnerability assessment. This tool enhances the capabilities of the widely-used Nmap scanner, offering security professionals a comprehensive […]

VPN Hacking: How VPN’s Work and How They Break Our Security

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! In recent posts, I have emphasized the risks inherent in VPN’s. Virtual Private Networks or VPN’s are designed to keep us safe and secure but in recent years they have failed us miserably. In highlighting these failings, we have encountered a lot of confusion and misconceptions regarding how VPN’s […]

Vagrant: Building Secure Testing Environments

February 14, 2025February 24, 2025Occupy The Web

Welcome back, aspiring cyberwarriors! Creating and managing virtual machines has traditionally been a tedious and time-consuming process. System administrators and developers often struggled with the challenges of replicating virtual environments across different servers, a task that becomes exponentially more complex when dealing with multiple VMs. This complexity not only slowed development cycles but also […]

IP Camera Hacking: The FFmpeg Tool for Streaming Camera Video

January 20, 2025January 21, 2025Occupy The Web

Welcome back, aspiring cyberwarriors! As you know, Hackers-Arise has been deeply involved in the cyberwar to help save Ukraine from the brutal Russian aggression. As part of that effort, we were asked by the Ukrainian military to hack IP cameras throughout Ukraine in order to spy on Russian activities. As part of that […]

Linux Basics for Hackers: The Linux Logging System

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! One of the most overlooked areas on the Linux operating system is the logging system. If you are a system administrator or security engineer, this is where all the information you will need resides to determine the problems with your operating system, including who, what and why of your intrusion. […]

Linux Firewalls: The Modern NFTable Firewall

September 4, 2024September 24, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Firewalls play a key role in cybersecurity as they can filter out unwanted and malicious traffic from your network. Although firewalls will not make your network impenetrable, they will make it much more difficult for attackers to find and access your network. Many companies sell excellent products, some costing tens […]

Cyberwar Mission #3: Using QRCodes in Phishing and Social Media Attacks

August 27, 2024February 20, 2025Occupy The Web

Welcome back, aspiring cyberwarriors. In this article, one of our fighters in Ukraine (Sierra) demonstrates how they use social engineering to turn Russian tactics against them. In each new article here, we delve into the cyberwarrior wisdom of Master OTW and its application in cyber warfare. In this edition, I will discuss Master […]

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI): Finding C2 Servers, Malware and Botnets

August 8, 2024September 25, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back my cyberwarriors! One of the key tasks for those defending a country’s, institution’s or corporation’s assets is to understand what threats exist. This is often referred to as Cyber Threat Intelligence or CTI. It encompasses understanding what the threat actors (hackers and nations) are doing and which are threats to your organization. In […]

Bypassing Next Generation Firewalls with fragtunnel

August 6, 2024January 20, 2025Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! A firewall is a critical component of network security that acts as a barrier between trusted internal networks and untrusted external networks, such as the Internet. It monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. Firewalls can be implemented as hardware devices, […]

Python Basics: Programming Concepts

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! To ascend to the status of cyberwarrior, you must have some basic programming capabilities. In the field of hacking and cybersecurity, this usually means BASH and Python scripting. Python scripting is the most popular among cybersecurity professionals due to its extensive libraries and modules that are useful in cybersecurity (you […]

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