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Digital Forensics, Part 3: Recovering Deleted Files

November 5, 2023September 20, 2024Occupy The Web

In the first two parts of this series, we captured a forensically sound image of the hard drive or other storage device and an image of the RAM. In this tutorial, we will recover any files deleted by the suspect. Among the most fundamental skills necessary for a forensic investigator, recovering deleted files is probably […]

Digital Forensics, Part 1: Capturing a Forensically Sound Image

November 1, 2023November 1, 2023Occupy The Web

Digital forensics is rapidly growing field of information security. The hacker needs to understand what evidence can be recovered and the security engineer needs to know how to find it. These skills are applicable to law enforcement, corporate investigations, network intrusions, malware analysis and incident response, among many others. No matter what area of information […]

Why YOU Should Study Software Defined Radio (Signals Intelligence) for Hackers!

August 15, 2023February 24, 2025Occupy The Web

Hacking radio signals (RF) IS the leading edge of cybersecurity! So many applications in our modern life use radio frequency elements that it is hard to list them all. For instance, consider the following list: Automobile and vehicle access and monitoring Mouse and keyboards Cellphone Signals Remote control Telemetry Satellite transmissions Police and military […]

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 […]

Bug Bounty Hunting, Part 2: Stealthy Parameter Detection with ParamSpider

May 3, 2023December 31, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! When attempting to hack/pentest a website, it can be extremely useful to get the parameters of various pages. These might include php, woff, css, js, png,svg, php, jpg and others. Each of these parameters might indicate a particular vulnerability such as SQL injection, XSS, LFI, and others. When we have […]

OSINT: Finding Email Passwords in Dumps with h8mail

April 17, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring OSINT Investigators! Often as OSINT investigators, pentesters and hackers, we need to determine if a email address of the target exits and, if so, whether it has been compromised. There are a multitude of locations where compromised emails and passwords are stored and not all of them contain all the latest […]

Wi-Fi Hacking: Creating a Wi-Fi Scanner with Python and Scapy

February 18, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Although there are numerous tools to hack Wi-Fi (802.11), to create your own tools you will need to understand the Wi-Fi protocol. In a previous tutorial, I explained the various types of frames in Wi-Fi. Now we will use that information to crate our own Wi-Fi scanner very similar […]

Bluetooth Hacking, Part 1: Getting Started with Bluetooth

February 15, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Today, Bluetooth is built into nearly all our devices and gadgets. These include our computers, smartphones, iPods, tablets, speakers, game controllers, keyboards, and many other devices. In this series, we will be focused on hacking mobile devices, tablets, and phones as they are the most fertile ground for hackers. The […]

Digital Forensics, Part 8: Live Analysis with sysinternals

February 10, 2023December 30, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring forensic investigators! In this tutorial, we will use another tool that can be used in for live system forensics—Sysinternals—a suite of tools developed by Mark Russinovich. Many times as a forensic investigator, we need to examine a live system in a corporate investigation or incident response, without the need or the […]

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