Category: Hacking Basics

The Confessions of a Pentester Series, is the work of a pentester that goes by the handle of EasyGhost and was originally posted over at HackForums.net. EasyGhost was nice enough to give me permission to[…]

The Confessions of a Pentester Series, is the work of a pentester that goes by the handle of EasyGhost and was originally posted over at HackForums.net. EasyGhost was nice enough to give me permission to[…]

    Command injection also is known as OS Command injection, is an attack technique used to execute commands on a host operating system via a vulnerable web application. Command Injection attacks are possible when[…]

What is THC-Hydra? Hydra is a very fast online password cracking tool, which can perform rapid dictionary attacks against more than 50 Protocols, including Telnet, RDP, SSH, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMB, several databases and much[…]

    What is SQL Injection? SQL Injection is a code injection technique used to attack data driven applications, in which nefarious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution (e.g. to dump[…]

LAMP is an acronym of the names of its original four open-source components used for building dynamic websites and web applications, These components are Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (or Perl). The equivalent installation on[…]