Category: Hacking

I wrote a previous post about a password breach database that I was able to find online. Since then I’ve found many more, and I’ve been using them to compile word lists for password...

For years there’s been a flaw in the way some Linksys access points facilitate access for guest users. A bit of research reveals complaints of this method dating back to 2013, and apparently the...

I recently stumbled upon a large collection of account names and passwords that have been harvested from the various data breaches over the past 10 or so years. This data comes from Yahoo, Target,...

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...