Ethical hacking and penetration testing

First acquaintance with Kodachi Well… I was going to write a manual about Linux Kodachi. But as I became acquainted, I realized that I do not like Kodachi and raises questions of trust in this OS. It’s not a matter of taste – decoration or sticky widgets – there's noRead More

Angry IP Scanner Angry IP Scanner is a program for finding computers and other devices on the network, scanning ports and information gathering. Port Scanner for Windows Although the title says that Angry IP Scanner is a port scanner for Windows, in fact it is a cross-platform scanner that worksRead More

For any Java program to work, you must install the Java virtual machine. Java has open source and is free. What is the difference between Oracle JDK and OpenJDK Java (more precisely JDK) has two main types: Oracle JDK Openjdk In fact, at the moment this is approximately the sameRead More

AUR (Arch User Repository) is a large repository of programs that are (not yet) added to official Arch Linux repositories. To search for packages in AUR you need to go to the site, and to install you need to execute several commands. git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/PACKAGE_NAME.git cd PACKAGE_NAME makepkg -si ToRead More

The article “How to reset a forgotten login password in Linux” shows that a Linux login password can be reset very quickly and easily. And it can be the root or any user password. The essence of the method described in that article is to edit the GRUB bootloader optionsRead More

Table of contents 1. Search for computers with VNC 2. VNC traffic analysis 3. Hacking VNC Password 4. VNC session password cracking 5. How to brute force VNC servers 5.1 patator 5.2 Crowbar 5.3 VNCrack 6. How to decrypt stored VNC passwords 6.1 VNCPassView 6.2 Where VNC Passwords are stored in Windows 6.3 Password decryption in VNCrack 6.4 Where VNC passwords are stored inRead More

Suppose you installed Mutillidae, or DVWA, or something similar for penetration test training (by the way, see “How to install OWASP Mutillidae II and Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) in Kali Linux”). These applications have various vulnerabilities, some of them allow file uploading (backdoors) and SQL injection. Such scripts canRead More

Original post: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-8833-post-46908.html The post is interested in every sense: firstly, as the authors rightly note, there is no ready-made solution for cracking the VNC password in hashcat; secondly, the research process itself is curious. There was a goal, using hashcat to crack a password from captured traffic of theRead More

Table of contents 1. Linux Wi-Fi Problems and Errors 2. Recipes of popular Wi-Fi actions in Linux 3. Common Linux Wi-Fi Errors 4. Linux Wi-Fi FAQ 5. Drivers Linux Wi-Fi Problems and Errors This article is a collection of Wi-Fi issues you may encounter on Linux. The issues covered include both wireless security auditing andRead More

Table of contents 1. What are kernel modules 2. Getting information about modules 3. Automatic module loading using systemd 4. Manual processing of modules (enable and disable modules and drivers) 4.1 How to use the driver without installing it 5. Modules blacklisting 5.1 How to block all network interfaces on a computer 5.2 HowRead More