Ethical hacking and penetration testing

What is Captive Portal? With a Captive Portal you may encounter at the airport, hotel, condo, business centers, also now some mobile operators organize Wi-Fi access points using intercepting portals (hotspot with authorization on the web-interface). If you do not quite understand what I mean, then look at the screenshot:Read More

MySQL 8.0 became the version available for download by default (the previous current version was MySQL 5.7). Therefore, now it is considered that it is ready for use in production. I took several hours to solve the problems that occurred during the update process, I very much hope that thisRead More

On April 6, 2018, a file called TODO-FOR-NO-ROOT-TRANSITION was added to the repository of the package responsible for the Kali Linux menu. The file is small and contains technical information with reminders addressed to the maintainers of Kali Linux, what they need to pay attention to when they create shortcutsRead More

A single network data capture file (pcap format) can contain more than one handshake. This can happen, for example, with the continued Airodump-ng capturing, as a result it can got several handshakes from one or more access points. Handshakes from files captured in ‘noisy’ conditions need additional verification and cleaning.Read More

BackBox Linux is another Linux distributive for penetration testing. The OS has its own features, and I have no doubt that it will find its fans. The key features of BackBox are: based on Ubuntu (more friendly) lightweight desktop environment (should work well even on the old hardware) built-in anonymousRead More

The whole article is devoted to the 3WiFi database and its usage (‘3WiFi: open database of Wi-Fi Access Points passwords’) there I explain what and how to find in this database. Quite often looking in the window of the program Airodump-ng, I think it would be great to check all visibleRead More

After installing the web server, you may need to make it available to others on the local or wide area network. It may be necessary, for example, to test your site on different platforms (see how the site looks on mobile phones) or if you created a service (file sharing,Read More

In this manual, I highlighted the most basic steps of Hashcat using and detailed the main operating modes of the program. This instruction is designed for absolute beginners. I hope it will reduce the number of ‘children's’ questions. How to run and use hashcat (an instruction for hacking passwords) HashcatRead More

There are situations when we have access to a Wi-Fi network (we got a password), but the signal is weak and not all of our devices can work stably or even connect to a wireless network. This can be faced when using neighbor Wi-Fi from home in front, and inRead More

OSRFramework is an abbreviation of the Open Sources Research Framework. The program has good functionality, especially interesting are not often found functions for checking the existence of an email address and searching for sites where it was used; search by nickname (username) on various sites; search for arbitrary strings inRead More