Linux

Snifflab is a technical test environment for capturing and decrypting WiFi data transmissions. Snifflab creates a WiFi hotspot that is continually collecting all the packets sent over it. All connected clients’ HTTPS communications are subjected to a “Man-in-the-middle” attack, whereby they can later be decrypted for analysis. This article presents …

This is a great video made by Assistant Professor Dr Mike Pound on how to make yourself root user on a computer using a buffer overflow attack in Kali Linux. Assistant Professor Dr Mike Pound details how it’s done in the following video:

I was trying to update one of my server that has some Opensuse repositories and received this error “W: GPG error: http://download.opensuse.org Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1501595774” root@someserver:~# apt-get update . . . ---SNIP---- Ign http://download.opensuse.org Translation-en Fetched 481 B in 4s (97 B/s) Reading package lists... …

The speed of a drive is measured in terms of how much data it can read or write in unit time. The dd command is a simple command line tool that can be used to read and write arbitrary blocks of data to a drive and measure the speed at …

Sometimes it’s really hard to find the correct exploit for the device that you are pentesting. I found two good references that may be helpful or least will give you a good starting point. Both of these resources can suggest Linux exploits based on kernel version. The first one is …