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Tcpdump Examples

Practical tcpdump examples to lift your network troubleshooting and security testing game. Commands and tips to not only use tcpdump but master ways to know your network. Knowing tcpdump is an essential skill that will come in handy for any system adminstrator, network engineer or security professional.
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7 months ago
Security News

Using Nmap on Windows

Running Nmap on Windows is not as difficult or problematic as it was in the past. Nmap is supported on Windows 7 and higher with performance close to if not quite as good as Linux based operating systems. The majority of users still do use *nix based systems however a good number of people use […]
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7 months ago
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Wireshark Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

Examples to Understand the Power of Wireshark Wireshark can be useful for many different tasks, whether you are a network engineer, security professional or system administrator. Here are a few example use cases: Troubleshooting Network Connectivity Visually understand packet loss Review TCP retransmission Graph high latency packet responses Examination of Application Layer Sessions (even when […]
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7 months ago
Security Research, Tools

Maltego Transforms

Creating Local Maltego Transforms for our DNS reconnaissance tools has been on my to do list for a while now. I am happy to say they are now available and it is a sweet way to perform infrastructure mapping from a domain. What is Maltego? Maltego is a cross platform application, for performing link analysis. […]
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9 months ago
Security Research, Tools

Cowrie Honeypot on Ubuntu

Cowrie is the new fork of the Kippo Honeypot. It has been updated with new features and provides emulation that records the session of an attacker. With this session recording you are able to get a better understanding of the attackers tools, tactics and procedures (TTPs). A term that is increasing being used in Cyber […]
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9 months ago
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OSSEC Introduction and Installation Guide

OSSEC is a Host Based Intrusion Detection and Prevention system. Best practice security management calls for a layered approach to security; security vulnerability scanning, a firewall, strong passwords, patch management and intrusion detection capabilities are all important layers. Using a HIDS allows you to have real time visibility into what security events are taking place […]
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9 months ago
Security News

DataSploit Tutorial

DataSploit Installation Often used with the Kali Linux penetration testing distribution, installing within Kali or Ubuntu Linux is a simple process. Ensure you have git and pip installed. test@ubuntu:~/$ git clone https://github.com/datasploit/datasploit test@ubuntu:~/$ cd datasploit test@ubuntu:~/datasploit/$ pip install -r REQUIREMENTS test@ubuntu:~/datasploit/$ mv sample-config.py config.py test@ubuntu:~/datasploit/$ python datasploit.py -h True usage: datasploit.py [-h] [-i SINGLE_TARGET] [-f […]
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10 months ago
Security News

Recon-NG Tutorial

The interactive console provides a number of helpful features such as command completion and contextual help. Recon-ng Installation Often used with the Kali Linux penetration testing distribution, installing within Kali is a simple matter of apt-get install recon-ng. For those wanting to the very latest code on Ubuntu the process is nearly as simple. Make […]
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10 months ago
Security Research, Tools

Internet Wide Scanning – Remote access granted

In the beginning there were Google Dorks, by using specific Google search queries it is still possible to find thousands of unsecured remotely accessible security cameras and printers. Now with search engines such as Shodan.io and Censys.io finding open devices on the Internet has gone to the next level. Google dorks work because Google happened […]
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1 year ago
Security Research, Tools

15 Essential Open Source Security Tools

There are thousands of open source security tools with both defensive and offensive security capabilities.  Updated in 2017 to include an additional 5 essential security tools. The following are 10 15 essential security tools that will help you to secure your systems and networks. These open source security tools have been given the essential rating […]
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1 year ago