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Exploring hacking tools, also known as security testing tools
In a lot of hacking examples, the instructor demonstrates a tool like BeEF that requires you to have a website to host the trapping script (for instance, acookie stealer). They’ll often use a localhost address (127.0.0.1) and effectively set a trap for themselves (it’s a demo, after all), without showing you how to use the …
Continue reading “[ Certified Ethical Hacker v10 ] :: Using ngrok to Set a Trap From Inside NAT”
Setting the user ID on an executable means it runs under that user’s permissions, not the perms of the user that runs the executable. It’s highly useful in system admin, but it’s wildly dangerous too, because every SETUID file is a vector for hacking. John Hammond (on YouTube) give an excellent example in the context …
Continue reading “[ Pen Testing ] :: Step by Step :: Exploiting SETUID”
There are actually four subsets of tools you can install with Kali, depending on your needs, disk resources and download speeds. These packages have names like kali-linux-full and kali-linux-all (those sound the same, don’t they?). Fortunately the good people at Offensive Security have a guide to the various metapackages. For instance: kali-linux is the barebones, …
Continue reading “[ Hacker Night School ] :: Kali Linux Metapackages (All Tools or Subsets)”
Kali is cool as hell, but taking it to work could get you fired, or at some of the places I support, get me arrested. It’s not really intended to be a daily-driver OS, though the 2020 update has moved it a long way in that direction. The biggest problem with carrying Kali around is …
Continue reading “[ Hacker Night School ] :: Adding the Kali Tools to Ubuntu”
There are a handful of debuggers, compilers and decompilers you might work with, depending on what area of hacking you’re pursuing. One of the most common is the GNU Debugger (gdb). John Hammond gives us a beautiful, clear example:
When you hack or pen test or play CTF, you use Kali or Parrot or some other Linux, right? Windows hasn’t been a preferred security testing platform, but that doesn’t mean people haven’t been thinking about it. Enter FireEye, and the “Commando VM: The First of Its Kind Windows Offensive Distribution”. Hmmm. So … going …
Continue reading “[ Hacker Night School ] :: Commando VM: a Windows Hacking “Distro””
Yeah, we all do it, right? We let our browser store our passwords for all those sites we visit every day. It’s easy, it’s convenient, and it’s really easy to hack. Starry shows us how to reveal these passwords, swipe them and use them in another browser. Plus: he demos what you can do about …
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