Ethical hacking and penetration testing

Table of contents 1. Denying access from outside to MariaDB/MySQL 2. Denying access from outside to Apache 3. How to assign a root password for MariaDB/MySQL in Windows 4. Block access to phpMyAdmin 5. Deletion of test files, archives with source code, backup copies of files 6. Prevent viewing theRead More

All Tails programs are configured to work via Tor. If you try to connect to the network, then if this program is not configured to make connections via Tor, then access to the Internet will be denied. It is necessary to make network settings for every applications individually. The settingsRead More

VeraCrypt is absent in the standard Tails repositories. But you can still install it manually. VeraCrypt has a portable version, so you can save it to the Persistent folder and it will be available to you after each Tails reboot. By the way, in Tails there is a program forRead More

The guide, describes how to install Tails to an hdd and enable persistence using Tails builtin tools, exists already. But the manual is outdated nowadays and it does not work. So I reviewed it and fixed it. The next text will explain how to install Tails on hard disk inRead More

It happens that you need to install a .deb package for which certain version of a dependency is absent in the standard repositories. For example, the libcurl3 package is a dependency, but only libcurl4 is available on the system; or libssl1.0.0 dependency is required, but the system has only libssl1.0.2.Read More

Program for monitoring Wi-Fi Kismet is a wireless 802.11 detector, sniffer and intrusion detection system. The program monitors wireless space and keeps logs of detected devices and various events (for example, wireless attacks). When using the GPS module, Kismet can record the coordinates of the access points seen. Thanks toRead More

Let's start with the theory in order to understand why the process of decrypting Wi-Fi traffic in Wireshark requires some effort and why one cannot just decrypt any captured Wi-Fi traffic even if one has a password from the Access Point. When transmitting via Wi-Fi, the traffic is encrypted usingRead More

Is it dangerous to use open Wi-Fi networks Internet access via Wi-Fi is currently very popular. There are Wi-Fi hot-stops in apartments, in workplace. When using wireless access, it is important to maintain the security of your Access Point. Nowadays, public Wi-Fi networks are very popular as well. They areRead More

The zcat command is an analogue of cat, which displays the contents of one or more files. More specifically, the cat command is designed to merge several text files. The command runs like this: cat file1 file2 file3 The contents of all files will be consistently output to standard output.Read More

There is a lack of reliable services to check whether a web site is banned in Google AdSense. So, a new online service was created to test AdSense ban for a website. It is actual free service to check sites for Google AdSense ban. It is completely free and itRead More