Social Engineering Attacks
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Advanced Persistent Threats
Advanced Persistent Threats came into existence during cyber espionage between nations. The main motive...
Starting Out with BackBox Linux
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A flexible penetration testing distribution
BackBox Linux is a very young project designed for penetration testing, vulnerability...
Target Exploitation
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Vulnerability research
Understanding the capabilities of a specific software or hardware product may provide a starting point...
Reversing Android Applications
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Android application teardown
An Android application is an archive file of the data and resource files created...
Network Exploitation and Monitoring
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Man-in-the-middle attacks
Using ARP abuse, we can actually perform more elaborate man-in-the-middle (MITM)-style attacks building on the...
Ruby and Metasploit Modules
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Reinventing Metasploit
Consider a scenario where the systems under the scope of the penetration test are very...
Metasploit Custom Modules and Meterpreter Scripting
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Writing out a custom FTP scanner module
Let's try and build a simple module. We will write...
Using the client as a pivot point
Pivoting
To set our potential pivot point, we first need to exploit a machine. Then we need to check for a second network card in...
Veil-Evasion
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A new AV-evasion framework, written by Chris Truncer, called Veil-Evasion (www.Veil-Evasion.com), is now providing effective protection...
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Service Invocation
Time for action – creating the book warehousing process
Let's create the BookWarehousingBPEL BPEL process:
We will open the SOA composite by double-clicking on the...
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Top 6 Cybersecurity Books from Packt to Accelerate Your Career
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