Ethical hacking and penetration testing

Table of contents 1. Introducing and Installing John the Ripper 2. Utilities for extracting hashes 3. How to start cracking passwords in John the Ripper (how to specify masks, dictionaries, hashes, formats, modes) 4. Practical examples of John the Ripper usage 5. Rule-based attack 5.1 What is John the Ripper Rule-Based AttackRead More

How to view information about disk images. How to determine the file system of disk images You can use the file command to analyze which file system is used in files that are disk images. An example of checking the test.image file: file /mnt/disk_d/test.image Output example: /mnt/disk_d/test.image: ISO 9660 CD-ROMRead More

mimikatz Program mimikatz has many features related to Windows security and stored passwords. Among other things, the program can extract passwords, secrets and hashes both from the system it is running on and from the saved files of the registry hives. Instructions: How to hack a Windows password How toRead More

libguestfs for working with virtual machine disks The libguestfs (libguestfs.org) package is required to work with virtual machine images. libguestfs is a set of tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images. You can use this for viewing and editing files inside guests, scripting changes to VMs, monitoringRead More

Table of contents 1. Hashcat command structure 2. Examples of Hashcat masks 3. Frequently used Hashcat options 4. How to extract hashes and find out their numbers for cracking in Hashcat 5. How to hack Wi-Fi password in Hashcat 5.1 Capturing Wi-Fi handshake for password cracking 5.2 How to extract hash for Wi-Fi hacking 6. HowRead More

How to view HTTP headers How to see HTTP headers in a web browser This is the easiest method available on any operating system. Press F12 in your web browser and open the page of interest. Go to the Network tab and select the connection you are interested in. GoogleRead More

This is the second collection of Kali Linux tools that work great in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), yet are simple enough to be used by any Windows user, regardless of their Linux skills. Of course, it is recommended to start with the “Best Kali Linux tools in WSL (WindowsRead More

Table of contents 1. What is HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication 2. How Relevant are HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication 3. How to enable password protection with HTTP Basic and Digest authentication 3.1 How to enable HTTP Basic Authentication in Apache (Kali Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint) 3.2 How to enable HTTP Digest AuthenticationRead More

What Is a Browser's User Agent? The User Agent is a string of text that identifies the browser and operating system for the web server. User Agent is passed in the HTTP header when the browser makes a request to the web server. You can view the transmitted HTTP headers, includingRead More

Table of contents 1. Installing Kali Linux on a memory card or external USB drive: what is different? 2. USB flash drive for Kali Linux 3. Erasing the USB memory stick to install the operating system 4. Instructions for installing Kali Linux on a USB memory stick 5. Booting Kali Linux from a USBRead More