Welcome back, my Mr. Robot aficionados! As you know, Mr. Robot is my favorite TV show this year, and not just for the realistic hacking. Rami Malek, the actor who plays Elliot, is incomparable in his depiction of a young man with social anxiety who is alienated from a superficial, materialistic society and wants to […]
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For those who are coming from a traditional IT or IT security background, SCADA/ICS systems security can prove prove daunting. Many of the technologies, modes and mindset of the traditional IT are not applicable to SCADA/ICS systems. In this brief article, I’d like to enumerate and elaborate on just a few of the most important […]
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Recently, the website clearancejobs.com, site specializing in jobs requiring security clearance, cited Hackers-Arise as one of the Top 5 Cybersecurity web sites in the world. Here is what they said about Hackers-Arise; You can read the complete article here.
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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 […]
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Welcome back my aspiring cyber warriors! Now that you have mastered the Basics of Linux, let’s begin looking at some of the more esoteric but equally powerful Linux commands for the hacker.One of those key commands is curl or client URL. This command enables the Linux user to send and receive to a specified URL, […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Social engineering is a key feature of some of the biggest hacks in history! Many novice hackers are so focused upon mastering the technical aspects of hacking that they ignore at their own peril the power of social engineering. When nation-state actors such as Russia’s Sandworm hacking team (one […]
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Welcome back, my aspiring RF hackers! Among the multitude of radio signals swirling around us everyday are the mobile telephone signals that all of us have become so dependent upon. Mobile networks use several different technologies including GSM, CDMA, TDMA, 4G, LTE, 5G and many others. For almost two decades now, law enforcement around the […]
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Welcome back, my Mr Robot afacionados! A number of you have written me telling me how much you enjoy the Mr. Robot series on USA Network and Amazon Prime. I am also a huge fan! If you haven’t seen it yet, you should. It may be the best hacking show on TV. Mr. Robot is […]
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Welcome back, my greenhorn cyberwarriors! For those of you who are new to Mr. Robot, Elliot Alderson is an asocial IT security engineer who teams up a with a group of hackers (f/society) determined to use their hacking skills to make a better world. They were able to seriously damage the data on the world’s […]
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Welcome back, my cyberwarrior heroes! As I mentioned in my second interview with David Bombal, the second round of the Ukraine/Russia Cyberwar will involve SCADA/ICS hacking. Recently, Russia once again attempted to hack Ukraine’s electrical grid (it successfully turned out the lights in Ukraine in 2014 and 2015) but was stymied by a stiff cyber […]
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