Backtrack 5 r3 has been released!
Check it out here!
Note: Be aware that there are many unofficial releases of Backtrack 5r3. Be sure to download Backtrack 5r3 from the official source www.backtrack-linux.org.
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April 15, 2012 by CyberRad
Google Hacking
Google Dorks are advanced search parameters that you can use with Google’s search engine to narrow down a search. Google Hacking is the art of using Google Dorks to find specific information on Google’s databases. For example finding a known vulnerable version of a web application. Read More »
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March 1, 2012 by CyberRad
Backtrack 5 r2 has been released!
Just in case you missed it Backtrack 5 r2 has been released with a ton of new tools including Reaver, Pyrit, and Pipal. The distribution also includes huge improvements to existing tools including Metasploit, Armitage, BeEF, and SET. The new distribution can be found on the Backtrack website.
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January 17, 2012 by CyberRad
Going Phishing with the Social Engineering Toolkit
Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a social engineering pen testing framework created by Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy. SET contains numerous tools to help pen testers test the human element during a security engagement. Read More »
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December 17, 2011 by CyberRad
What to do after your *nix web server has been compromised
I thought it would be nice to write about what you should do when your *nix server is compromised. The idea came from a conversation that was sparked on the Full Disclosure List. Read More »
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October 26, 2011 by CyberRad
Using Rel1K’s Artillery To Protect Your Server
If you are looking for a way to secure your linux server from some of the most common attacks being carried out today against linux servers then look no further then Rel1K’s Artillery program. Artillery is a combination of a honeypot, file monitoring and integrity, alerting, and brute force prevention tool. Read More »
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September 26, 2011 by CyberRad
How to perform a SQL Injection Attack
SQL Injection (SQLi) is an attack vector that is extremely easy to carry out. Most of the breaches you see today are perpetrated this way yielding huge payloads of data. Understanding this attack will help you defend against this type of attack. Read More »
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August 12, 2011 by CyberRad
Cracking the wireless network using aircrack-ng
Aircrack-ng is a suite of programs that allow for auditing of IEEE 802.11 networks. Below I will go over using the Aircrack-ng suit in Backtrack 5 to capture and crack WEP and WPA. Read More »
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June 30, 2011 by CyberRad
Deter unwanted scanners/crawlers using Weblabyrinth
Weblabyrinth is a dynamic maze of web pages written in PHP. The main goal of Weblabyrinth is to delay and occupy malicious web scanners to give incident handlers time to investigate and respond to threats. Weblabyrinth is designed to show a 404 error to legitimate web crawlers based on the crawlers user-agent. Here is how you install and configure Weblabyrinth. Read More »
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June 17, 2011 by CyberRad
Audit your site using w3af
Maintaining a website can be a large task. On the security side of the day to day tasks for the site you usually patch the web server and check the logs for potential issues. There are many automated tools that are out there scanning the internet for vulnerable web servers to compromise. Typically a compromised web server is turned into a spam serving server. What about your web application that you use to serve your content? Can you trust that it does not allow the attacker access to your web server? This is where w3af comes in. w3af attempts to find vulnerabilities in your web application using known attack methods. Read More »