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Vulnerability Scanning with Nuclei: The High-Speed, Customizable Solution for Advanced Vulnerability Scanning

November 6, 2024November 6, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Nuclei is an advanced, open-source vulnerability scanner that has gained significant popularity among cybersecurity professionals, penetration testers and developers. Known for its exceptional speed, high degree of customizability, and accuracy in identifying security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential exploits across a wide range of digital assets and networks. This article will […]

OSINT: Using Spiderfoot for OSINT Data Gathering

December 12, 2023January 4, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring OSINT experts! Open Source Intelligence –or OSINT as it has become known –is a leading-edge field in hacking/pentesting, forensics and data science. OSINT is changing the way private investigators, pentesters and data scientists do their job. Open Source Intelligence uses the resources freely available on the Internet (no illegal activities necessary) […]

Port Scanning and Reconnaissance with Hping3

December 10, 2023January 3, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarrior! One of the most time-consuming, but necessary, activities in hacking is reconnaissance. Before we can hack a system, we need to know what operating system it’s running, what ports are open, what services are running, and hopefully, what applications are installed and running. Good reconnaissance increases our chance for success […]

Vulnerability Scanning, Part 1: Nexpose

December 9, 2023January 2, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! One of the keys to being successful as a hacker, pentester, or cyber warrior is the ability to find vulnerabilities or flaws in the target system. Vulnerabilities are holes or weaknesses that can be exploited (hacked). We have looked at several ways to do that including various Web application vulnerability […]

Using Hping3 for Reconnaissance, Part 1

November 28, 2023November 28, 2023Occupy The Web

One of the most time-consuming, but necessary, activities in hacking is reconnaissance. Before we can hack a system, we need to know what operating system it’s running, what ports are open, what services are running, and hopefully, what applications are installed and running. Good reconnaissance increases our chance for success and reduces our chances of […]

Reconnaissance with Unicornscan

November 28, 2023January 1, 2024Occupy The Web

Port Scanning with Unicornscan In this section of Hackers-Arise, we have looked at a variety of tools for port scanning and OS fingerprinting from nmap, hping and p0f. In this lesson on port scanning and reconnaissance, I want to introduce you to one more tool, unicornscan. While nmap is the most widely used port scanner […]

How to Use Maltego, Part 1: Gathering Info on a Domain

November 12, 2023December 31, 2023Occupy The Web

Before we attempt to exploit any target, it is wise to do proper reconnaissance. Without doing reconnaissance, you will likely be wasting your time and energy as well as risking your freedom. In previous guides, I have demonstrated multiple ways to perform reconnaissance including passive recon with Netcraft, active recon with Nmap or hping3, recon […]

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 […]