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Community Posts: Installing Kali in Virtual Box

October 28, 2023December 31, 2023Occupy The Web

We have our first community post on Hackers-Arise. G was gracious and generous enough to offer this short tutorial on installing Kali 2.0 on VirtualBox. If you have an article you would like to submit to Hackers-Arise, send it to admin-hackers-arise@protonmail.com OTW Hey guys! I’m G. Recently, I finally decided to check out Kali 2.0 […]

Introduction to the IoT/Embedded Linux: The OpenWRT Project

August 10, 2023February 7, 2025Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! As you know, the various mobile carriers around the world sell a device they often refer to as a “network extender”. These are actually femtocells or very small cellphone towers. The local cellphone connects to the network extender/femtocell and the signal is then sent across the internet to the cellular […]

Radio Basics for Hackers, Part 2: Amplitude, Modulation, decibels and gain

August 8, 2023September 20, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring radio hackers! As you know, radio hacking is the leading-edge of cybersecurity! Nearly everything digital around us emits, radiates or receives radio waves. These include our cellphones, computers, automobiles, remote controls, key fobs, GPS, and this list could go on and on. This is a little understood field of cybersecurity by […]

Privilege Escalation: The Dirty Pipe Exploit to Escalate Privileges on Linux Systems

May 22, 2023December 22, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Often, after successfully compromising a system, we are limited to the privilege’s of the compromised user. Regular users on systems usually have very limited privileges and can not access many of the resources or make changes to their systems and resources (databases, etc.). This is one of the many ways […]

Network Basics for Hackers: Domain Name Service (DNS) and BIND. How it Works and How it Breaks

February 17, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! The Domain Name System or DNS is one of those network protocols that makes the world go round. Without it, we would need to remember innumerable IP addresses just to navigate to our favorite web sites. Imagine trying to remember the IPv4 (32-bit) addresses of Facebook, Amazon and Hackers-Arise, […]

Network Basics for Hackers, Part 5: Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)

February 15, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! In this series, Network Basics for Hackers, we explore the structure, operation and vulnerabilities of the major network protocols. In this way, the aspiring hacker/pentester/cyberwarrior will hopefully gain insight into not only it’s operation but also its vulnerabilities. In this segment of this series, we will examine the Simple Mail […]

Linux Basics for Aspiring Hackers, Part 1

February 10, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Many aspiring hackers are unfamiliar with Linux having learned computer basics in a Windows or Mac environment. Sometimes this unfamiliarity is the single most important obstacle to mastering the essential skills to become a professional white hat hacker. For many good reasons, Linux is THE only hacking platform. That having been said, to become a […]

IP Camera Hacking: Hacking IP Cameras with Cameradar

February 9, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring IP camera hackers! As most of you know, we have played a key role in the defense of Ukraine. Among our many activities in defense of Ukraine is the hacking of IP cameras throughout the country. In this way, we can spy on Russian activities and war crimes. We did this […]

Networking Basics for Hackers, Part 1

January 26, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

With our dramatic growth over the last year, we have added many new aspiring hackers who are still lacking in the basics of network and networking. In addition, with the new White Hat certifications, the exam requires some basic networking skills and knowledge to pass. As a result, I decided to offer my own take […]

Linux for Hackers, Part 7: BASH Scripting Basics

December 31, 2022September 25, 2024Occupy The Web

This series, Linux for Hackers, was developed to help familiarize the uninitiated into the world of using Linux for hacking. If you have not read Part 1-6, you can find them here. Any self-respecting hacker must be able to script. For that matter, any self-respecting Linux administrator must be able to script. With the arrival […]

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