Ethical hacking and penetration testing

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 7. Johnny –Read More

I know about virtual machines and that Microsoft has implemented WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). The virtual machine requires resources (not suitable for very weak computers). Other options are also not very simple. Cygwin installs like a normal portable application. After installation, a shortcut is added to the desktop whenRead More

Table of contents 1. What is dev and phy for iw command 2. Simultaneous use of a Wi-Fi adapter in different modes 3. Adding an interface in monitor mode 4. How to remove a virtual interface 5. Types of virtual interfaces 6. How to add an AP interface with iw 7. How to use one Wi-FiRead More

If you need to scan ports of computers and devices on a local network or on the Internet from Windows, then one of the best options is a combination of Nmap and Zenmap (a graphical interface for Nmap). Nmap has a large number of scanning options, and Zenmap's graphical interfaceRead More

About what a MAC address is and how to view it has already been discussed in the article “How to find the MAC address and How to find the manufacturer by MAC address”. In this article, we will look at how to change (spoof) the MAC address on your LinuxRead More

Table of contents 1. What are advantages of a static IP address usage? 2. Manually assigning IP addresses bypassing DHCP in the router 3. What are Address, Netmask, Gateway and DNS server when setting up a static address 4. Setting up a static IP address in Kali Linux (in Xfce)Read More

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