Cracking linux password with john the ripper – tutorial
This simple tutorial shows you how to use john the ripper to carry out dictionary based brute force attacks and crack passwords.
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Email harvesting with metasploit | tutorial
Out of the many useful auxiliary modules that metasploit has, one is called search_email_collector which searches google, bing and yahoo for email addresses associated to a particular domain. This is useful in automated information gathering during a penetration test program. The location inside msfconsole is auxiliary/gather/search_email_collector So lets try it out. Launch msfconsole. I am… Read More »
How to hack remote database with sqlmap
In the previous post on we learnt how to use sqlmap to hack a vulnerable web application and fetch the list of databases, tables, columns and data rows. In this post we shall see how to do some simple fingerprinting on the remote database to find valuable information that can be used to assist in… Read More »
Network scanning with Nmap – basic command examples
NMAP – Network Mapper Nmap is the most popular (and most featureful) port scanning tool out there. And although it appears like a small port scanning utility, it has a lot of hidden potential to serve as a powerful hacking tool. This is precisely what we shall try to work out in this particular article…. Read More »
Tcpdump tutorial – Sniffing and analysing packets from the commandline
Tcpdump Tcpdump is a commandline network analyzer tool or more technically a packet sniffer. It can be thought of as the commandline version of wireshark (only to a certain extent, since wireshark is much more powerful and capable). As a commandline tool tcpdump is quite powerful for network analysis as filter expressions can be passed… Read More »
How to hack the bsnl router
BSNL now a days is providing a adsl router made by SemIndia Systems and the model names are similar to DNA-A201 or DNA-A211-1. In this article we are going to hack into this router to learn more about it. You might not know that this small and innocent looking modem is actually a “Linux CPU”…. Read More »
Netcat tutorial – command examples on linux
Netcat is a commandline utility like telnet but with much more features. Learn to use netcat with these simple commands examples.
Scan the local network with arp-scan on ubuntu
Arp-scan Arp-scan is a commandline utility for linux that can be used to scan the network of a certain interface for alive hosts. It shows the ip address and mac addresses of all the hosts/nodes found. Project website Install on ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install arp-scan The documentation can be found at Usage Quick example… Read More »
Nmap tutorial – port scanning remote hosts
Nmap Nmap (Network Mapper) is the most popular port scanner and network discovery tool used. It is available for all major platforms. In this article we are going to learn the basics about nmap and see how it can be used to scan the network and ports. Project website Install on Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get… Read More »
Proxify applications with tsocks and proxychains on ubuntu
Tsocks There are many network applications that do not have the option to specify a proxy or do not support the use of proxies. In such cases tsocks is a useful tool to wrap all network communication done by a program via a socks proxy. Project website Install on ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install tsocks… Read More »