Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Creating password lists is a key element of a successful password cracking strategy. In nearly every case, we need to provide a list of potential passwords to the password cracking tool whether it be hashcat, John the Ripper, BurpSuite, cameradar or others (the exception being a true brute force attack…
This article is from our Ukraine intern _aircorridor. He lays out how to install one of the most secure Linux OSés, Tails. Getting started with Tails After a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the amount of Tor bridge users have grown up. End-to-end encrypted messengers like Signal went to the charts. People around the world realize…
As most of you know, we have played a key role in the defense of Ukraine. Among our many activities in defense of Ukraine is the hacking of IP cameras throughout the country. In this way, we can spy on Russian activities and war crimes. We did this at the request of the Ukraine Army…
Agent, your mission—code-named “Digital Lockpick”—is set within the cyber walls of Active Directory, the nexus of network security. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: to exploit the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, a seemingly innocuous yet vital pathway through which information travels. This operation hinges on mastering the SMB Relay Attack, a tactic…
In this series of tutorials, we will be exploring hacking satellites from a multitude of approaches. Satellites have become a ubiquitous and necessary technology in our everyday lives. They provide us with internet access, television and radio signals, location services, satellite phone service and, of course, satellite images necessary for domestic and military uses. If…
Like in my last article on remotely installing a keylogger onto somebody’s computer, this guide will continue to display the abilities of Metasploit’s powerful Meterpreter by hacking into the victim’s webcam. This will allow us to control the webcam remotely, capturing snapshots from it. Why exactly would you want to hack into somebody’s webcam? Maybe…
Continuing with my series on how to crack passwords, I now want to introduce you to one of the newest and best designed password crackers out there—hashcat. The beauty of hashcat is in its design, which focuses on speed and versatility. It enables us to crack multiple types of hashes, in multiple ways, very fast….
Digital forensics is rapidly growing field of information security. The hacker needs to understand what evidence can be recovered and the security engineer needs to know how to find it. These skills are applicable to law enforcement, corporate investigations, network intrusions, malware analysis and incident response, among many others. No matter what area of information…
Welcome back my aspiring white hat hackers to this series on Database Hacking. In the first installment in this series, we learned the fundamentals of databases including the Structured Query Language or SQL. This is the language of databases. The primary method of hacking databases is to inject this SQL into web forms and other…
Nearly all of us have used a search engine such as Google or Bing to find material on the web. These search engines crawl the entire web and index nearly every word contained on those pages and rank them. This enables us find the information we are looking for by simply typing in a few…
