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In this guide, I will put together an example attack against one of metasploitable’s vulnerable Linux virtual machines. If you plan on replicating this, you must ensure you do not expose the metasploitable VM to the outside network otherwise anyone may attack your machine. On VMware there is a “Host-only” setting for your network adapter […]
SPARTA is a GUI network penetration testing tool that easily coordinates and saves your reconnaissance and vulnerability scans. By default, many open source tools can be run against a target with a simple click and Sparta is also written in python which makes adding customized modules easy to develop. SPARTA comes standard in the latest […]
Netcat is a tool that can read and write TCP and UDP ports. This tool may not strike you as impressive but its simple and effective nature has made it so ubiquitous that it has been known as the Hacker’s Swiss Army Knife. It is regularly used to connect to a target service, port scan, […]
Researchers at the ProofPoint Threat Research Team recently released a report detailing the growing trend of hackers abusing LinkedIn to pose as legitimate recruiters interested in hiring them for their next position. The hackers reach out through LinkedIn’s direct messaging service, pretending to be a staffing company with an offer of employment for someone with […]
As the never-ending cat and mouse game advances in the world of cyber security we have seen a novel growth in the methodologies of malicious actors to avoid the ever-growing list of defensive products on the market. According to the annual 2019 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, cybercriminals have decreased their reliance on malware and […]
