I believe it comes without saying that in any field of work professionals need to be up to date to what is new in the market, especially in fields where everything changes in a matter of days or hours. This is especially true for IT and Cyber Security in general where and old information can mean the difference between a secure and a hacked system, a successful or unsuccessful pentest/hack. This is especially true if you are are a beginner willing to learn the intrusive security field, and doesn’t know…
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HellBoundHackers Basic Web Hacking Challenge 1 (Idiot’s test)
HellBoundHackers, or simply HBH, is a very famous and well-known security challenge based website. It contains challenges from several different cybersecurity fields. I’ve decided to have a bit of fun and try to solve every single challenge presented, from the easiest to the hardest. (although easy and hard will be different depending on your skillset and field of expertise). As I do with any challenge website, I WILL NEVER post the flag in cleartext, as it kills the fun and thrill of finding it, however I will post my way…
Read MoreNetCat the IT Swiss Knife Complete Commented Examples
Netcat is a very good piece of software used all around the world by security and IT professionals, in general, to accomplish many different goals, from loading a simple socket in a specific port to test network connectivity, to develop full backdoors for other meanings. Here below is an article I have written and published in a very well-known Brazilian IT magazine called Infra Magazine, more specifically on issue number 3. This article was initially published in Portuguese therefore I’ve translated it into English. Nice Reading! NetCat: The TCP/IP Swiss…
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