Information Gathering Through Google Search Engine
July 2, 2018

Information gathering can be done using technical and nontechnical methods. Technical methods rely on computer-aided techniques for collecting information. However, there is no assurance that a particular tool or a piece of electronic equipment will obtain sufficient information about a target. That’s why, social engineers generally use a balanced mix of technical and nontechnical methods and merge the information they get to build a profile for their targets. While there are numerous such techniques, this […]

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Information Gathering  / Social Engineering

Web Penetration Testing Like The Pros
June 25, 2018

Read the book that is written by someone who actually does pentesting. “Practical Web Penetration Testing“ What is this book? Companies all over the world want to hire professionals dedicated to application security. Practical Web Penetration Testing focuses on this very trend, teaching you how to conduct application security testing using real-life scenarios. To start with, you’ll set up an environment to perform web application penetration testing. You will then explore different penetration testing concepts […]

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Ethical Hacking  / Website Security

File Recovery and Data Carving using Foremost
May 27, 2018

Foremost is a simple and effective CLI tool that recovers files by reading the headers and footers of the files. You can start Foremost by clicking on: Applications > Forensics > foremost     Once Foremost is successfully started, a Terminal opens, displaying the program version, creators, and some of the many switches that can be used:   To have a better understanding of Foremost and the switches used, try browsing the Foremost System Manager’s Manual. […]

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Ethical Hacking  / Forensics

Uncovering Hidden SSIDs
May 4, 2018

Hidden SSIDs In the default configuration mode, all access points send out their SSIDs in beacon frames. This allows clients in the vicinity to discover them easily. Hidden SSID is a configuration where the access point does not broadcast its SSID in beacon frames. Thus, only clients that know the SSID of the access point can connect to it. Unfortunately, this measure does not provide robust security, but most network administrators think it does. Hidden SSIDs […]

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Wireless Hacking

Building A Password Cracking Machine With 5 GPU
January 16, 2018

Cracking passwords offline needs a lot of computation, but we’re living in an era where mining is becoming very popular and GPU power is helping us, as security professionals, to get all the support that we need to build a powerful machine. Recently, I built my cracking machine with 5 GPU on board and I thought I’d share it with you. In this article, I will be showing you my equipment so you can build […]

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Cryptography  / Password Cracking