About Maltego
“Maltego, is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It allows for the mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a meaningful way. Coupled with its graphing libraries, Maltego, allows you to identify key relationships between information and identify previously unknown relationships between them. It is a [...]
GFI LANguard is a tool I found as a useful replacement for Nessus (BackTrack does not include Nessus). It is only free with this BackTrack distribution. I found this tool to be a slightly slimmed down version of Nessus. On the other hand it was incredibly easy to use and it provides a wealth of information. [...]
What is SMB ?
SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol
Microsoft uses to share files, printers, serial ports, and also to communicate between computers using named pipes and mail slots. In a networked environment, servers make file systems and resources available to clients. Clients make SMB requests for resources and servers make SMB responses in what [...]
The best way to detect a RAM scraper is via regular traffic and critical file monitoring and log analysis, experts say. Following are eight tips for protecting against RAM scraping, gleaned from the Verizon report:
* Strong firewall and antivirus presence and maintenance, logging, review. Keep the RAM scrapers (and other malware) out.
* Regularly confirm the integrity [...]
The report identifies and ranks by frequency the following top 15 types of attacks:
1. Keylogging and spyware: Malware specifically designed to covertly collect, monitor, and log the actions of a system user.
2. Backdoor or command/control: Tools that provide remote access to or control of infected systems, or both, and are designed to run covertly.
3. SQL injection: [...]
One of the most frustrating moments as a network administrator is when you desperately want to log on to a Cisco Kartook-R1-LAB and you try all possible passwords you have with no success. Fortunately there is a Cisco password recovery procedure for IOS Kartook-R1-LABs which you can follow and bypass password control in order to get [...]