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Hacking software is not only used by hackers for criminal activities but it’s equally used by white hat hackers and security professionals to identify a vulnerability in a network or an endpoint. There is several hacking software available on the inter…
Continue ReadingHardly a day goes by without news of yet another major data breach. Every day–every hour–your computers are under attack. Don’t believe me? I run a website, Practical Technology , which is just an archive for my published stories. It’s been attacked …
Continue ReadingGetting Started. To get started, download the ova file available on Vulnhub. Open the file on your VMware or Virtual Box. Fire up you Kali-Linux or Parrot distribution for attacking the target machine Recon & Scanning Phase. Use netdiscover to know the…
Continue ReadingA potential security vulnerability has been identified in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Universal API Framework. The vulnerability could be remotely exploited to allow SQL injection in HPE Universal API Framework for VMware Esxi v2.5.2 and HPE Universal A…
Continue ReadingAs a result, exploitation is really simple; inject a weaponised “extend” directive (which will end up in the snmpd.conf file) with a Perl reverse shell to my IP (e.g. 192.168.1.50:4242). To do so, we just need to POST the following “community” value to…
Continue ReadingGetty. Active Cypher. In the past six months, the world pandemic has transformed business operations. Organizations have had to accelerate digital transformation initiatives, implement new work policies and struggle to increase infrastructure resources…
Continue ReadingBrian: Well, yeah, the Zero Day Initiative program, back in 2005, what we noticed is that there was a global community out there of independent researchers who were looking for zero day vulnerabilities and really didn’t have an avenue of which to discl…
Continue Reading2-month test period with just under 45,000 malware samples. In the first test phase, the lab tests all solutions for their protection. The procedure requires the products first to pass the real-world test over a period of 2 months, and afterwards to su…
Continue ReadingIn the US, cyber-attacks against the financial sector surged by 238% between February and April this year, the peak period when the Covid-19 pandemic was fast spreading across the country and stay-at-home orders were implemented. “At an alarming rate, …
Continue ReadingThis is also true of the group’s latest activities. A new CactusPete campaign, spotted at the end of February 2020 by Kaspersky, shows that the group’s favored types of target remain the same. The victims of the new variant of the Bisonal backdoor, acc…
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