This is the third installment of my Python scripting series. If you haven’t read the previous two articles, take some time now to go back and read Part 1 (Introduction) and Part 2 (Building a Banner Grabbing Tool) before you proceed here. As I mentioned in previous tutorials, Python is probably the most widely used […]
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Welcome back, my fledgling hackers! Mobile devices–smartphones and tablets–are proliferating around the world and slowly overtaking desktop and laptop machines. These mobile devices generally run either the iOS or the Android operating system, with Android comprising the bulk of all mobile device OS’s (82%). Considering the growth of the mobile market and the dominance of […]
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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 […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Whether you are an aspiring master hacker, network engineer or security engineer, there is one tool that each of the roles need to be familiar with, nmap. nmap began as a simple, modest, port-scanning tool utilizing the ability to send TCP, UDP or ICMP packets to a host and […]
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Welcome back my aspiring cyber warriors! In my earlier tutorial, I showed you some of the basics of using Shodan, “the world’s most dangerous search engine”. In this tutorial, we will expand and extend your knowledge of the capabilities of Shodan to find outdated and vulnerable online systems. Often times, aspiring cyber warriors assume that […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Sometimes the best information is just there for our asking! Given a little knowledge and some simple tools and techniques, we can harvest information about individuals and organizations that they are not aware they are providing us! Organizations often post documents on their website usually in a Word .doc […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Web sites are built using a variety of technologies (see Web Technologies here). In most cases, before we develop a hacking strategy of the web site, we need to understand the technologies employed in building the website. Web site attacks are not generic. Attacks against WordPress-based web sites won’t […]
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The Internet is the largest treasure trove of data in the history of humankind! This repository of data is so large that companies and scientists are straining to understand and manage its scale. We can mine that data with many different tools and sources. When that data is combined with data from multiple sources, a […]
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Welcome back, my neophyte hackers! In the world of information security, the most common intrusion detection system (IDS) you will ever encounter is Snort. As you probably already know, an IDS works similarly to antivirus (AV) software on your desktop; It attempts to identify malicious software on your network and warns you of its presence. […]
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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 […]
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