Ethical hacking and penetration testing

VeraCrypt is the successor of the TrueCrypt program. It is designed to encrypt disks and provides very strong security. The program is completely free, the source code is open, the author of the program regularly releases updates that not only fix errors, but also bring new functions and improvements. InstallingRead More

Table of contents 1. SMB and network folders discovering. Shares and files enumeration 1.1 Samba utilities 1.2 SMB discovering via port scanning 1.3 enum4linux 1.4 nullinux 1.5 SMB Spider 1.6 acccheck 1.7 CredNinja 1.8 SMBMap 1.9 SPARTA 1.10 SMBCrunch 1.11 NetBIOS Share Scanner 1.12 NMBscan 1.13 Online scanners on SuIP.biz 2. Man-in-the-middle attack on SMB. Relays 2.1 Responder 2.2 Inveigh 2.3 Intercepter-NG 2.4Read More

Table of contents 1. What is NetBIOS? 2. NetBIOS Services 2.1 Name service (NetBIOS-NS) 2.2 Datagram distribution service (NetBIOS-DGM) 2.3 Session service (NetBIOS-SSN) 3. NetBIOS name vs Internet host name 3.1 NetBIOS name 3.2 Internet host name 4. How to detect NetBIOS 5. nbtstat 6. Wireshark filters for highlighting NetBIOS traffic 7. LMHOSTS file 8. NetBIOS exploitation 8.1 Invoke-Inveigh 8.2 Responder 8.3 NMBscan 8.4 NetBIOS Share Scanner 8.5 NBTscan 8.6 nbtscan-unixwizRead More

OWASP Mutillidae II is a free, open source, deliberately vulnerable web-application providing a target for web-security enthusiasts. Mutillidae can be installed on Linux and Windows using LAMP, WAMP, and XAMMP. With dozens of vulns and hints to help the user; this is an easy-to-use web hacking environment designed for labs,Read More

Table of contents 1. What is a web server for Windows 2. Download web server (Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin) for Windows 11 3. Create the structure of the web server 4. Installing Apache 2.4 5. Installing and configuring MySQL 8.0 6. Installing and configuring PHP 8 7. Installing andRead More

Table of contents 1. Flash drive with Windows 11 and Kali Linux 2. Preparing a flash drive for installation 3. Using a flash drive as a raw VMDK virtual hard disk 4. Creating and configuring virtual machines 5. How to install when dual booting Windows and Linux 6. Installing Windows 11 7. Installing Kali Linux 8. How toRead More

How to increase txpower to 36.00 dBm The article “How to increase TX-Power of Wi-Fi adapters in Kali Linux” discusses the theory and different approaches to increasing the TX Power to 30.00 dBm and removing restrictions on the use of blocked Wi-Fi channels. The article is quite long and someRead More

How to Install Hashcat on Windows Hashcat is a password cracking program by brute force. Hashcat runs on Windows and Linux and is very functional. This program supports many algorithms for brute force and several types of attacks, including a dictionary attack and a mask attack. Hashcat is portable andRead More

Experienced users can do various non-trivial things with USB media (disks and flash drives): install OS on them split a USB flash drive into several partitions burn a Live image and make a bootable USB flash drive destroy partition table All these actions are, on the one hand, reversible, but,Read More

Table of contents 1. How to install VirtualBox Guest OS Add-ons for Kali Linux 2. How to use Windows drives in Kali Linux. How to solve the problem with the error ‘The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount’ 3. RegularRead More