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SNMP-Service-feature 0

Vulnerability Assessment of SNMP Service – III

Background: This is the third article of this series of articles on vulnerability assessment of SNMP Service. In the previous two articles, we have covered

May 22, 2013 Hacking
social-engineer-toolkit-feature 0

Phishing and Social Engineering Techniques 2.0

This is the second part of the phishing and social engineering techniques series. In the first article, we have discussed what phishing is, as well

May 22, 2013 Hacking
Mozilla-Persona-feature 0

Mozilla Persona: What you should know and how to implement it

In the summer of 2012, Mozilla unveiled a new single sign-on (SSO) solution called Mozilla Persona to the online world. At the time, their branding

May 14, 2013 Hacking
RaspberryPi-feature 2

Pentesting Distributions and Installer Kits for your Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi for pwning and penetration testing? Of course! Why not? As an introduction, Raspberry Pi is an ARM GNU / Linux box or a

May 13, 2013 Hacking
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Email Injection

Nowadays, internet usage is growing dramatically, but the vast majority of internet users don’t have a security background. Most of people use the Internet for

May 09, 2013 Hacking
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XML vulnerabilities

1. Introduction As we know, today’s web technology advances are fast in good and bad ways. With almost every technology, if not used properly, its

May 06, 2013 Hacking
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Panoptic – Common Log and Config Files Retriever through LFI Vulnerability

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.

May 03, 2013 Hacking
Code Injection 2

Code Injection Techniques

DLL Injection using QueueUserAPC We begin by creating a process using CreateProcess, which is the where we are trying to inject the code into: Once

May 02, 2013 Hacking
Search Engine Hacking 2

Search Engine Hacking – Manual and Automation

Introduction: We are all aware of Google/Yahoo/Bing Search engines; they need no introduction. We use them every now and then to solve our day-to-day queries.

May 01, 2013 Hacking
Google Hacking 0

Google Hacking – For fun and profit – I

Google has been used ever since its beginning to find answers for most if not all of our questions from the beginning of the universe

May 01, 2013 Hacking
Google Hacking 4

Google Hacking: The hidden face of Google

No need for an introduction, Google is quite possibly the more powerful search engine used today, even used sometimes to check our connectivity; except that

April 30, 2013 Hacking
Cracked Web Applications 0

Cracked Web Applications Leak Credentials and Data

If you’ve been paying attention to vulnerabilities in web applications, you’ve certainly heard of attacks involving SQL injections, cross-site scripting, and poor session management. Thanks

April 23, 2013 Hacking
Running Metasploitable2 on VirtualBox 2

Running Metasploitable2 on VirtualBox

Background: Metasploitable is a Linux-based vulnerable virtual machine. It is designed especially for people interested in learning system exploitation. Rapid7 maintains Metasploitable and this virtual

April 23, 2013 Hacking
Spamhaus 0

DDoS Attack on Spamhaus – An insight

Spamhaus recently witnessed one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service attacks on its infrastructure. The Spamhaus Project is an international non-profit organization that has

April 15, 2013 Hacking
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Penetration Testing for iPhone Applications – Part 4

In the first part of the article, we have discussed the iPhone application traffic analysis. The second part of the article covered privacy issues and

April 12, 2013 Hacking
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InfoSec Institute Interview with Rahul Sasi

Rahul Sasi works as a security researcher for garage4hackers.com. Rahul is a respected name in the security industry. Last year, he researched about possible remote

April 11, 2013 Hacking
Dax Labrador a.k.a semprix 0

InfoSec Institute Interview: Dax Labrador a.k.a semprix, founder of ROOTCON

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

April 10, 2013 Hacking
B.A.T.M.A.N. 2

B.A.T.M.A.N

Welcome techies, I am sure that you landed up on this page because the title is the name of a famous superhero. I am not

April 09, 2013 Hacking
Hacking Static Passwords 1

Hacking Static Passwords

1. Introduction The static password is the most popular authentication method. It’s also the least secure one. This article describes how static passwords can be

April 08, 2013 Hacking
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Machine Learning Part 3: Ranking

INTRODUCTION: In the previous article, we saw the utility of Naïve Bayes Rule for malware classification. While simple to understand and implement, we have tried

April 04, 2013 Hacking
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