Category: OSINT

Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! The Internet is the deepest and widest data repository in the history of the world! Those who can extract and cultivate intelligence from it, will be empowered like none other! This data can be used for offensive security and forensic investigations, among many other applications. Crosslinked is one more […]

Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warrior! There is SO much data on the Internet that the issue not IF the data is available, but rather where. At times, we may want to track flights in an investigation. You may want to track the flights of powerful and nefarious individuals or track military flights. Maybe you […]

Welcome back, my greenhorn hackers! In previous tutorials, we have looked at ways to re-encode your payloads and other malware to evade AV software. We have also looked at the inner workings of Clam AV to better understand how this type of software works. Sometimes, we can encode our malware with applications such as Shellter […]

Welcome back, my aspiring OSINT cyber warriors! John Matherly began Shodan in 2009 to collect banner information from nearly early IP address on the planet, put that data into a huge database,and index that data for our use. Shodan has been so successful that it has inspired others to imitate and improve upon it. Censys.com […]

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 […]