Tag Archives: Penetration Test

So you want to be pentester? A common question is where do you start? This post gives you a list of recommended books for Pentesters. It is useful for any Linux security administrators and aspiring pentesters or anyone who is interested to learn the basic workings of Penetration test with …

  This is something I would like to keep track, so posting it here. Very useful and scary that how easily it can happen.   Alert (TA14-017A) Following diagram shows how UDP based Amplification Attacks are carried out. Very simple, a 4MB ADSL connection can amplify upto 400MB traffiic easily. …

A penetration test, or the short form pentest, is an attack on a computer system with the intention of finding security weaknesses, potentially gaining access to it, its functionality and data. A Penetration Testing Linux is a special built Linux distro that can be used for analyzing and evaluating security …

  Fix Metasploit error “The following options failed to validate: RHOSTS”   The Metasploit Project is a computer security project that provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. Its best-known sub-project is the open source Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing …

This is a small guide on How to fix “not starting portmapper is not running … (warning)” in Debian or Kali Linux. Fixing “not starting portmapper is not running … (warning)”: In most Kali or Debian installation users see this warning while booting their system. There’s two ways to fix …