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Blockchain…

Breaking News: More Than $600 Million Stolen In Ethereum And Other Cryptocurrencies—Marking One Of Crypto’s Biggest Hacks Ever

10 Aug 202110 Aug 2021
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/08/10/more-than-600-million-stolen-in-ethereum-and-other-cryptocurrencies-marking-one-of-cryptos-biggest-hacks-ever/?sh=413075dd7f62
Attacks…

Exploiting F5 Big IP Vulnerability | CVE-2020-5902

8 Jul 202024 Jul 2020
CVE-2020-5902 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the configuration interface (aka Traffic Management User Interface – TMUI) of BIG-IP devices used by some of the world’s biggest companies.…
#career…

Configuring Your IAM Securely on AWS

20 Dec 201924 Jul 2020
To help secure your AWS resources, follow these recommendations for the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. Lock Away Your AWS Account Root User Access Keys You use an…
AppSec…

Gaining Root From a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

9 Dec 201924 Jul 2020
Buffer overflow flaws can be present in both the web server and application server products that serve the static and dynamic portions of a site, or in the web application…
#career…

PenTesting: Gaining Root Privileges on Kioptrix

6 Dec 201924 Jul 2020
Kioptrix is a Capture The Flag style VulnHub VM and the aim of the game is to gain root privileges. We will be using Kali Linux in this post so…
#Metasploit…

Write an IMAP Fuzzing Tool

3 Dec 201924 Jul 2020
Picture this scenario. During a host reconnaissance session we discovered an IMAP Mail server which is known to be vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack (Surgemail 3.8k4-4). We found an…
Cyber Security…

How To Fully Anonymize Your IP

20 Nov 201924 Jul 2020
As a security professional, sometimes you will want to anonymize your web traffic so as not to set alarms off. Today we will be looking at TOR and a tool…
#Metasploit…

Gaining Access to Windows10 Through VLC Exploit

14 Nov 201924 Jul 2020
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Today we…
#career…

Install GNS3 2.2 on Windows10 | Download Link Included

31 Oct 201924 Jul 2020
GNS3 is a Graphical Network Simulator that allows emulation of complex networks. GNS3 allows the same type of emulation using Cisco Internetwork Operating Systems. It allows you to run a…
Attacks…

Crack WPA Handshake using Aircrack with Kali Linux

29 Oct 201924 Jul 2020
Today's tutorial will be looking into how you can crack the password of the 4 way handshake of someone that is re-authenticating themselves to a wireless router. The goal is…
AppSec…

XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability

14 Oct 20199 Mar 2020
According to OWASP, an XML External Entity attack is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input. This attack occurs when XML input containing a reference to…
#Metasploit…

BlueKeep – Exploit Windows (RDP Vulnerability) Remotely

10 Oct 201924 Jul 2020
Remote desktop protocol (RDP) is a secure network communications protocol designed for remote management, as well as for remote access to virtual desktops, applications and an RDP terminal server. RDP…
Attacks…

Reverse Engineering Router Firmware

3 Oct 201924 Jul 2020
Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, or to extract knowledge from the object; similar to…
Attacks…

Create a Backdoor Shell Script in Python

28 Sep 201924 Jul 2020
So we've delved into Python before, but this post should be a bit more interesting. What we will do today is write a backdoor in Python and if you manage…
#Metasploit…

Exploiting Routers With Routersploit

26 Sep 201924 Jul 2020
If you have Wi-Fi at home, then you have a router, this is how you get your internet access. Today we will be looking a piece of software that allows…
Attacks…

Find Vulnerable Devices On The Internet With Shodan

9 Sep 201924 Jul 2020
Welcome back to LSB and thanks for reading. Today we will be looking at how to search for vulnerable devices around the world using Shodan. Shodan is an index of…
#career…

Set up some Honeypots and a Threat Map

2 Sep 201924 Jul 2020
Welcome back my fellow ethical hackers. Remember, the contents in this post is for educational purposes and should only be used for ethical reasons, so with that caveat, let's get…
AppSec…

Securing Your Crypto Wallet

22 Aug 201924 Jul 2020
by Areeb Soo Yasir · Published · 2019-08-22 Why the world misses out on basic user-based security and isolation. When it came time to create my CryptocurrencyOS, based on Linux…
AppSec…

Set Up A Penetration Testing Lab Easily With Vagrant

30 May 201924 Jul 2020
Today we will be looking at a neat little command line tool called Vagrant. This tool allows us to deploy virtual machines seamlessly and we are going to show you…
AppSec…

ProxyChains For Anonymity

29 May 201924 Jul 2020
Introduction Proxychains is an incredibly useful tool that is incredibly poorly documented. In this tutorial, we will cover using proxychains and SSH to connect to a multihomed device (like a…
AppSec…

Enabling Monitor Mode & Packet Injection on the Raspberry Pi

20 May 201924 Jul 2020
By Kodyhttps://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/enable-monitor-mode-packet-injection-raspberry-pi-0189378/The Raspberry Pi Zero W and Pi 3 Model B+ include integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, and more than enough power to run Kali Linux. They sound like perfect…
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OWASP A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management Cause and Prevention

12 May 201924 Jul 2020
Threat Agents Attack Vectors Security Weakness Technical Impacts Business Impacts Application Specific Exploitability AVERAGE Prevalence WIDESPREAD Detectability AVERAGE Impact SEVERE Application / Business Specific Consider anonymous external attackers, as well…
AppSec…

New Exploits for Insecure SAP Systems

6 May 201924 Jul 2020
Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is issuing this activity alert in response to recently disclosed exploits that target insecure configurations of SAP components. Technical Details A presentation…
#career…

Best Linux Distros for Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing

1 May 201924 Jul 2020
Here is a list of some top Linux distro for ethical hacking and penetration testing that will surely help you to pick one that best fits your need. Kali Linux:…
#career…

Malware Analysis With Valkyrie

22 Apr 201924 Jul 2020
Valkyrie is a malware analysis tool that's free for you for a year to try out. You can visit https://valkyrie.comodo.com to sign up. Once you sign up you will presented…
AppSec…

Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code

15 Apr 201924 Jul 2020
A new version of Adblock Plus was released on July 17, 2018. Version 3.2 introduced a new filter option for rewriting requests. A day later AdBlock followed suit and released…
AppSec…

Emotet The Banking Trojan

11 Apr 201924 Jul 2020
Emotet is a kind of malware originally designed as a banking Trojan aimed at stealing financial data, but it’s evolved to become a major threat to users everywhere. Let’s talk…
#Metasploit…

NetBIOS Auxiliary Modules

26 Mar 201924 Jul 2020
Full article: https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/scanner-netbios-auxiliary-modules/ nbname The nbname auxiliary module scans a range of hosts and determines their hostnames via NetBIOS. msf > use auxiliary/scanner/netbios/nbname msf auxiliary(nbname) > show options Module options (auxiliary/scanner/netbios/nbname): Name…
AppSec…

Ghidra – First impressions of the NSA Reverse Engineering Tool

13 Mar 201924 Jul 2020
Ghidra is a reverse engineering tool, written in Java, that was recently open-sourced by the National Security Agency (NSA). You can find the Github page here and the download link…
AppSec…

Exploiting XXE Vulnerabilities

5 Mar 201924 Jul 2020
By Chris Davis XXE (XML External Entity) attacks happen when an XML parser improperly processes input from a user that contains an external entity declaration in the doctype of an…
AppSec…

CSRF Code Examples and Defense

3 Mar 201924 Jul 2020
CSRF is an attack that tricks the victim into submitting a malicious request. It inherits the identity and privileges of the victim to perform an undesired function on the victim's…
#career…

Web Application Security

21 Feb 201924 Jul 2020
WHAT IS WEB APPLICATION SECURITY Web application security is the process of protecting websites and online services against different security threats that exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Common targets…
AppSec…

VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

13 Feb 2019
Email company VFEmail suffered what they call a "catastrophic" hack that destroyed their primary and backup data for the U.S. The firm’s founder says he now fears some 18 years’…
Android Security…

It’s Time To take back Our Internet

20 Jan 201920 Jan 2019
Tim Berners Lee was recently awarded the Turing Award (The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to "an individual selected…
#career…

We Have Linux Foundation Deals for you

23 Dec 201814 May 2020
As usual we have amazing new deals on Linux Foundation certificates and courses. Sign on and use your own pace to finish the course. Prometheus is the latast deal!! Updated…
AppSec…

Create a Backdoor with Cryptcat

23 Dec 2018
In this tutorial, I'll introduce you to netcat's popular cousin, cryptcat (she's actually much cuter and more exotic than the plain netcat). Cryptcat enables us to communicate between two systems and encrypts…
Cyber Security…

Veil – AV Evasion – Set Up and Tutorial

17 Dec 2018
Veil-Evasion is a tool designed to generate metasploit payloads that bypass common anti-virus solutions. NOTE: ./setup/setup.sh should be re-run on every major version update. If you receive any major errors on running…
Cyber Security…

Router Hardening Checklist

9 Dec 20189 Dec 2018
Network infrastructure devices (routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls etc) are among the assets of an enterprise that play an important role in security and thus need to be protected and…
#career…

Cyber Monday Sale Starts NOW!(FOR A WEEK!!)

26 Nov 201830 Nov 2018
Yikes, yes, we are rolling out Cyber Monday deals for a week. This will hopefully make up for the lack of Black Friday deals, but maybe Black Friday has died.…
AppSec…

SQL Injection Attacks

20 Nov 2018
A customer asked that we check out his intranet site, which was used by the company's employees and customers. This was part of a larger security review, and though we'd…
Cyber Security…

Snort Open Source IDS

14 Nov 201828 Nov 2019
Snort is an open source Intrusion Detection System that you can use on your Linux systems.  This tutorial will go over basic configuration of Snort IDS and teach you how…
AppSec…

IPtables – the Linux Firewall

13 Nov 201813 Nov 2018
KORBIN BROWN FEBRUARY 6, 2014, 12:34PM EDT Iptables is an extremely flexible firewall utility built for Linux operating systems. Whether you’re a novice Linux geek or a system administrator, there’s…

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