Category: Hacking

This is part two in our series that takes a look at Active Director reconnoissance with a free tool called AD Explorer, and is interesting because we can do so having only obtained basic...

Not a lot of people may know this, but even someone with only “Domain User” credentials can read a whole lot of information about Microsoft Active Directory from their personal machine without any sort...

Showing Only IPs of Active Hosts / Output to File There may be a need to output only the IP addresses of the active hosts on a subnet. We can strip out all of...

After having using Tenable Nessus years ago, I decided to give OpenVAS a spin. Open VAS, like Nessus, is a vulnerability scanner. Unlike Nessus, OpenVAS is open source and free to download and use....

nmap is a free, open source, and very powerful security scanner. It’s used to discover hosts on a network, provide information about what types of services might be running on those hosts and even...

Kali Live USB is great, but doesn’t it suck that all of the changes that you make in the live boot environment are wiped when you shut it down? That doesn’t have to be...

The Goal In this article I’ll show you how to add a regular Windows Active Directory domain user account to the local Administrators group on a PC without having access to either the domain...

The Windows SAM File – A History Note: If you already know what the Windows SAM database is and want to get straight to the good stuff, skip this section (a history lesson) and...

Password Cracking: Pairing Down Wordlists via the Linux Command Line In a couple of previous articles (here and here), we learned several things to consider regarding the collection and combination of password wordlists, and...