Throughout the scanning phase, penetration testers and ethical hackers gather very useful information about the target environment that will be critical in the ongoing stages of a test. Scanning and identifying vulnerabilities is…
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Nmap is a free tool that can be used to conduct various sorts of scans on networks. Normally, when people think of Nmap, they assume it’s used to conduct some sort of nefarious…
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What is IP Address – A unique number consisting of four parts separated by dots. Every device on the Internet (and on any network) must have a unique IP address to participate and…
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Tcpdump is a well known command line packet analyzer tool. Using tcpdump command we can capture the live TCP/IP packets and these packets can also be saved to a file (pcap). Later on…
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The communication has become much easier with the development of the internet and numerous applications. Despite their simplicity, there are numerous tricks and nuances you should consider before using them and is especially…
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Essential for any website, a contact form is one of the first things to think about for your project. It is important to give your users a voice, to understand their needs and…
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MyBB is one of the most widely used open source, intuitive, extensible, and incredibly Forum software out there. The software is recognized for its security as well as it is the most secure…
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The hacking tools mentioned in the US-CERT Report may not be unfamiliar to the security researchers and penetration testers, but the value for the enterprise security defense workers is self-evident. Research is designed…
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A meterpreter is an advanced, stealthy, multifaceted, and dynamically extensible payload which operates by injecting reflective DLL into a target memory. Scripts and plugins can be dynamically loaded at runtime for the purpose of extending…
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Discovery tools are used to gather information about a target network or system. The tools enable you to easily perform many otherwise manual processes, such as whois queries, DNS zone transfers, SNMP queries,…
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Digital marketing has come a long way since the prominence of social media as a powerful tool in the practice of marketing. With so many people online to target with different products, the…
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There are certain requirements that you must meet in order to be an effective penetration tester in a infosec job role. The requirements deal with your level of security skills, your systems and…
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Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn defenseless. Its main goals are to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a…
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A brute-force attack is when all possible keys are checked against encrypted data until the right key is found. Brute-force attacks are extremely costly from a resource and time perspective because the attacker…
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Would you like to know how fast your internet connection is? This can be done with an internet speed test. There are various tests on the internet to measure the speed of your…
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Network Mapper (Nmap) is one of the most effective and functional tools in Kali Linux. Nmap can be used to perform a large range of different scanning techniques and is highly customizable. Nmap is…
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From previous article, we came across to different actions performed by HTTP methods where we had described the role of PUT method which allow client to upload a file on server with different…
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Kali is the latest and greatest version of the ever popular Backtrack Linux penetration testing distribution. The creators of the Backtrack series kept Kali in a format very similar to Backtrack, so anyone familiar…
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1. Device A has been configured for IRQ 3. Which of the following devices will Device A potentially conflict with? A. COM1 B. LPT1 C. COM2 D. LPT2 2. What is the default…
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Testers usually maintain a library of the current and historical operating systems. When testing Microsoft operating systems, Windows XP is used as the reference standard to test vulnerabilities. Although Windows XP will be…
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Everyone who has been involved with IT for more than a few months has at least heard of MySQL. The acquisition of MySQL AB by Sun Microsystems brought a great deal of additional…
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Meet Ihsan Sencan, a security researcher from Turkey who found more than 15+ SQL Injection Vulnerabilities in various Joomla Components in just one day and all related exploits have been published to various…
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