Author: Justin Bagduy

Wireshark captures network packets and provides an interface for analysis. To demonstrate, begin a packet capture with Wireshark, create some network traffic, then perform some analysis. Begin a packet capture with Wireshark. In the case of systems with multiple network adapters, selecting a particular device may be important. If unsure of what adapter to select,…

The brute force attack seems too noisy and obvious to actually exist in the real world one might say. The test for this is fairly simple. Disable the firewall, enable a service the depends on password authentication, then tail the auth log file to look for password attacks. Unfortunately, there will be thousands of attempts…

Netcat is the solution when a simple network socket is required. The Netcat utility abstracts away all of the tedious parts of TCP sockets. Simply open a port and receive data or connect to an existing listener. Below are several useful examples of using Netcat. Use Netcat to serve on port 80 continuously. (while true;…

There are many reasons one may need to create a passable copy of an existing webpage. Judgments aside… First open the terminal and create a new folder for the project. This folder will ultimately contain an index.html, localhost.pem certificate file for SSL, and a folder full of the scripts, images and contents from the copied…