Ethical hacking and penetration testing

WPScan is a vulnerability scanner for WordPress powered sites. It is a ‘black box’ scanner, that is, it operates without access to website source code. It can be used to discover security issues of remote WordPress sites. The vulnerability search process is as follows: For the specified site, it searchesRead More

Why install Ruby Ruby is a scripting language, that is, pre-compilation is not required to run programs. In this sense, Ruby is an analogue of PHP, Python, PERL and others. Ruby is a fairly popular language and many interesting programs are written on it; in scope of InfoSec, the well-knownRead More

If a password contains Russian, Chinese, Arabic characters or any other non-Latin (non-English) characters, then it can also be cracked in Hashcat, but it also requires an understanding how computers work with strings and encodings, especially when launching a mask attack. We will consider two cases when the password containsRead More

What is Wayback Machine and the Internet Archives In this article we will consider Web Archives of sites or Internet archives: how to recover removed from sites information, how to download non-existent anymore sites and other examples and use cases. The principle of operation of all Internet Archives is similar:Read More

Table of contents 1. How to install Habu on Windows 2. Program to find sites with the same IP in Windows 3. Windows program for searching by username 4. Traceroute in Windows 5. How to scan ports in Windows 6. How to scan a file by all antivirus programs in Windows 7. WHOIS in Windows 8. Quick wayRead More

Python is currently very popular and many tools for information gathering, scanning, penetration testing, and security assessments are written in Python. All these tools work seamlessly on Linux. But in fact, the vast majority of tools can work on Windows as well, most of them require just a simple PythonRead More

In this article, we will talk about the Ultimate Facebook Scraper (UFS) program. It saves photos, videos, messages, lists of friends, colleagues, etc., events and all other information from the Facebook user profile. You can specify a list of a large number of users and UFS will save their informationRead More

When searching for information on a computer, you need to remember that it is located not only in data storage devices (solid state drives, hard drives, removable media, etc.), but also in RAM, in the processes. Information when located on the hard disk and in RAM is not the same:Read More

There are plenty programs to track the route packets, you can get to know with them in the detailed article on trace route methods and programs called ‘Trace route tools and methods’ (by the way, it is recommended that you start acquaintance with it). The current article will again touchRead More

What are DS_Store files and why are they needed .DS_Store are files in the Apple OS X operating system, they store user settings for a folder, such as the list of files, the location of the icons, the selected background image. The name is short for Desktop Services Store. TheseRead More