Kali Linux is typically the kind of distribution for which remote access is pretty useful. You can leave it running, somewhere on the network, and access it remotely to use of the many tools available. But unfortunately, nothing is enabled by default, so you have to configure a few things before using remote access on…
Setting up the hostname Linux is an important step, and it’s especially essential on Kali Linux, which is often used for hacking and pen-testing purposes. Keeping the default name “kali” is probably not the smartest idea if you want to stay sneaky. On Kali Linux, the hostname can be customized by editing the hostname and…
Kali Linux comes handy with many tools pre-installed for hacking and security, but there is nothing magical to handle your USB drives. It’s Linux, and you have to learn a few things before being comfortable with it. Don’t worry, I’ll show you 2 ways to format your USB drives with Kali Linux in this article….
Wireshark is a free and open-source tool to capture and analyze network traffic. Basically, it will intercept network packets and display their content in a nice interface, so you can analyze them. It’s available on most operating systems. I will show you how to use it on Kali Linux, and share interesting features for you…
Hashcat is a free and fast password cracker available on any platform (Linux, Windows, macOS). I talk a lot about this tool on this website, and today we’ll focus on one of the most popular feature you can use with Hashcat: the mask attack. Hashcat can use several attacks. Mask attacks is the number 3…
Hashcat is my favorite password cracker. You can use it on any operating system or distribution, but it’s often easier to use Windows to avoid drivers issues (especially with a recent GPU). Anyway, I will explain how to install it on Windows in this tutorial. Hashcat is officially supported on Windows, binaries files can be…
Hashcat is an important tool to have in your tool belt (on your computer at least ^^). I already wrote several tutorials on how to use Hashcat, but today we’ll stay focus on the installation, especially on a Linux distribution like Ubuntu. The easiest way to install Hashcat on Ubuntu is to use the package…
User credential (which refers to username and password combinations used for accessing online accounts) are very sensitive data sets that must necessarily be protected. Attack to such data sets lead to the financial ruin, sabotage or exposure of confidential materials belonging to individuals and financial and integrity ruin for organizations. There has been appreciable development…
Most of the time, the passwords you use on your favorites websites are not stored in plain text. They are first hashed for security reasons. But if someone gets access to the database with all logins and passwords, can the passwords be decrypted? That’s what’s we’ll talk about in this article. As a general rule,…
As you may already know, most passwords are stored hashed by the developers of your favorites websites. It means they don’t keep the password you chose in a plain text form, they convert it into another value, a representation of this password. But in the process, can two passwords have the same hash representation? That’s…
