Note: Transcription from the original article written by Taeho Oh. Internet cannot forget this legend! 1. Introduction Nowadays there are many buffer overflow exploit codes. The early buffer overflow exploit codes only spawned a shell (execute “/bin/sh”). However, nowadays some of the buffer overflow exploit codes have very powerful features.For example, passing through input filtering,…
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If we are cracking local accounts passwords in a Unix/Linux environment. First you will need to merge “/etc/passwd” and “/etc/shadow” system files into one: Then there are two possible techniques. Technique #1: Dictionary Attack This is useful when we have a long dictionary with common passwords, so we want to audit that no user is…
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Sometimes when doing lateral movement in a penetration testing engagement, we don’t want to use nmap to keep a low footprint. There it comes netcat to the rescue which it is already installed in many Linux systems. With this command we can easily perform a port scanning for the most used ports: If you are…
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ENISA published a very practical guide about establishing a computer security incident response team (CSIRT) or security operations centre (SOC). Source: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/how-to-set-up-csirt-and-soc
For some critical machines when it is not usual that users login through SSH or execute SU to become superuser, we can use PAM module configuration to receive some kind of alert whenever a user logs into that machine or escalates privileges to root. Two options here: /etc/pam.d/su: To receive alerts everytime a user becomes…
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I don’t know what you were doing or even if you were even born, but on September 22th 2004 at 4:44 PM I was having fun decrypting an ELF binary going through the awesome NGSEC1 CTF !! #quiz.ngsec.com There was a binary file encrypted with BurnEye Encryption Engine that had to be decrypted in order…
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Quick video showing a successful attack doing a Denial of Service against a website using WordPress. To be protected against this cyberattack, do not forget to restrict access to /xmlrpc.php resource only from your IP address (1.2.3.4 in the example below). For Apache, edit /.htaccess file to add:
It is very easy to resolve any domain in Microsoft Windows natively using the command nslookup: By default our system will query to our predefined DNS server. If we want to query an specific DNS server, we can specify it as a second argument. In this case we ask the IP address of the domain…
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Offline CVSS Calculator https://github.com/BitSentinel/CVSS2-Calculator.git OWASP Risk Assessment Calculator https://security-net.biz/files/owaspriskcalc.html
http://getgreenshot.org/ Greenshot: Screenshots for reports in Windows https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ MobaXterm: All-in-one terminal for Windows https://www.tracewrangler.com/ TraceWrangler: Easy sanitization and anonymization of PCAP and PCAPng files https://github.com/novnc/noVNC noVNC: VNC client using HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) with encryption (wss://) support https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/butterfly butterfly: A web terminal based on websocket and tornado https://github.com/cure53/XSSChallengeWiki https://mosh.org/ Mosh: Mosh (mobile shell) https://ngrok.com/ Ngrok:…
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My name is Jacobo Avariento. I got a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and specialized in cybersecurity in 2001. With more than 15 years in the cybersecurity industry as a consultant and penetration tester working for top tier banks, the European Central Bank, pharmaceutical, automotive and gaming companies.
I hold Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) and Certified Blockchain Security Professional (CBSP) certifications.
