Jay Turla is a Filipino security researcher at InfoSec Institute and a programming student. He is interested in Linux, OpenVMS, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. He is one of the goons of ROOTCON (Philippine Hackers Conference). You can follow his tweets @shipcod3. Raspberry Pi for pwning and penetration testing? Of course! Why not? As an introduction, Raspberry Pi is an ARM GNU / Linux box or a
Local File Inclusion or LFI is a kind of web exploit or vulnerability that allows an attacker to inject directory-traversal characters on a certain website.
For today’s interview, we have a FreeBSD contributor and the founding director of the largest and most awesome hacker conference in the Philippines, ROOTCON! Guys
For today’s hot seat in the Infosec Institute interview series, we have a known wireless security geek: none other than Douglas Berdeaux, a.k.a Trevelyn. He
In SQL (Structured Query Language) Injection, there are many kinds of techniques that are partnered with UNION SELECT statements like LOAD_FILE(), INTO OUTFILE(), INFORMATION_SCHEMA, Char(),
Last January, I wrote an article about the SOLDIERX Hacker Database entitled Welcome to the World’s Largest Public Hacker Database which was about some of
The Recon-ng Framework has undergone some major updates that has improved its functionality and its usage,as well as new modules that were added to the
In my previous article, I wrote an introduction to the Recon-ng Framework and its basic usage, which is primarily used for automatic information gathering and
The Metasploit Framework Project and the Social Engineer Toolkit (SET) are two great and known frameworks used by penetration testers and security researchers for automation
I have always been a video game console fan and enjoy playing RPG (role-playing games) and “Hack and Slash” games (cheers to God of War
As a security researcher and information security enthusiast, I have always been interested with OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), and the profiles and biographies of white
And now is the time for the third article of the Handy Devices Revolution series! In the second article we talked about Arduino and Power
Hello guys, this is my second article about Handy Devices Revolution: Handy Pentesting and Hacking. The first article can be found here: http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/handy-devices-hacking-part-1/ In this
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled ‘Transforming your Android Phone into a Network Pentesting Device‘ which is obviously about turning your Android
Lester: Hey Nash, are you scanning our school’s network with just your smartphone? Nash: Well, yes I am! I’m using a network penetration suite just
A lot of sniffers, rootkits, botnets, backdoor shells and malwares are still on the wild today, which are used by malicious attackers after successfully pawning
For today’s hot seat we have Mr. Raffael Marty but before starting up with the interview questions, I would like to thank him who agreed
A few days ago, I attended (and maybe trolled) a hacker conference called ROOTCON in Cebu City, Philippines at Cebu Parklane Hotel. To be honest,
Most of the people I know who are new to penetration testing want to hone and enhance their skills, but they have problems like: They
A few weeks ago, I happened to read an article from pir8geek.com (a blog about Linux goodies and tips) about a new tool which is
Computer crimes happen! Did you know that evidence can be found on freshly formatted hard drives, cell phones, and even in-car navigation systems? The rate of fraud, abuse and downright criminal activity on IT systems by hackers, contractors and even employees are reaching alarming rates. Corporate IT, Law Enforcement and Information Security Pros are often required to perform computer forensics duties on their jobs. In terms of job growth, nothing beats computer forensics as a career, and no one can beat InfoSec Institute as the best place to learn from a computer forensics training expert.
