Ethical hacking and penetration testing

A media access control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment. This use is common in most IEEE 802 networking technologies, including Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Within the Open Systems InterconnectionRead More

A question was asked on the forum, is it possible to use very old adapters that only support modes b and g to audit the security of Wi-Fi networks? It seems that these adapters are already completely useless for attacking wireless Wi-Fi networks, but in reality this is far fromRead More

Automatic capturing of handshakes is interesting for both novice users and those who perfectly know how to capture handshakes “manually”. There are situations when we cannot sit in front of the attacked object, get our five-kilogram seventeen inch laptop, to which an Alfa with a long antenna is attached, andRead More

Table of contents 1. Best program for generating dictionaries 2. Pydictor instruction 3. Dictionaries containing certain characters 4. Dictionary based on custom character sets 5. Prepending and appending strings 6. Permutation and combination of strings 7. Filtering words that match certain conditions 8. Generating dictionaries by mask 9. Custom character sets and masks in pydictor 10. End of the firstRead More

OpenVAS is now renamed Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) When the OpenVAS project was created, it only consisted of a vulnerability scanning engine. Greenbone Networks received funding shortly thereafter to provide professional vulnerability scanning support. Greenbone took over development leadership, added a few software components, and turned OpenVAS into a multi-prongedRead More

Table of contents 1. The basics of generating dictionaries/wordlists 2. Rule Based Attack 3. Generation of dictionaries based on information about a person 4. Compiling word lists and lists of usernames based on the website 5. How to create a variable-length masked dictionary 6. How to crack a hash when nothing is known about the passwordRead More

Crunch VS Hashcat Crunch is a wordlist generator where you can specify a standard character set or a character set you specify. crunch can generate all possible combinations and permutations according to given criteria. The data that crunch outputs can be displayed on the screen, saved to a file, orRead More

How to generate and modify dictionaries according to the given rules To generate dictionaries, there are maskprocessor and Crunch programs that are very flexible in customization. They allow you to create any dictionaries that can be described with rather complex rules or a certain pattern, for example, dictionaries with: phoneRead More

The PHP interpreter has become an essential part of almost every web server. The vast majority of web applications are written in PHP. Therefore, many people associate PHP technology with the web environment, with the environment of the web server. But in reality, you can run PHP scripts without aRead More

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 6. How to brute force non-standard hashes 6.1 How toRead More