Simplifying Cyber Security

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt in detail about OSINT. In this article, you will learn about Recon-ng, a OSINT gathering tool. Recon-ng is an open-source intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources. It is a full-featured reconnaissance framework designed to gather OSINT information The post Beginners guide to Recon-ng appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt about Man in The Middle (MiTM) attack. In this article, you will learn about Bettercap, a network reconnaissance and MiTM attack tool. What is Bettercap? Bettercap is a powerful, easily extensible and portable framework written in GO programming language, that is useful to security researchers, The post Beginners guide to bettercap appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt what is fuzzing. In this article, you will learn about wfuzz, a web application fuzzer or brute forcer. Wfuzz is a tool designed to bruteforce web applications and can be used to find directories, servlets, scripts etc. It can also be used to brutefoce GET The post Beginners guide to wfuzz appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt about vulnerability scanning. In this article, you will learn about Nuclei, a high performance, fast and customizable vulnerability scanner that uses YAML based templates. Its features include, Let’s see how this tool works. For this, we will be using Kali Linux as attacker system as The post Beginners guide to Nuclei vulnerability scanner appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt how Windows authentication works. In this article, you will learn about chntpw, a offline Windows password and Registry Editor that can be used to reset or blank local passwords on Windows NT operating systems. Chntpw or Change NT Password is a utility that does the The post Beginners guide to chntpw appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In this article, you will learn about Responder tool, a tool that is helpful in harvesting credentials and passwords on the target network. It is useful mostly in internal penetration testing of services. What is Responder? Responder is a LLMNR, NBT-NS and MDNS poisoner with a built in HTTP, SMB, MSSQL, The post Beginners guide to Responder appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt about Antivirus. In this article you will learn about Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). Let’s begin with what is it. What is Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)? Endpoint Detection and Response, also known as Endpoint detection and Threat response (EDT) is a tool used in The post What is EDR? Endpoint Detection and Response appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you learnt about threat intelligence. In this article, you will learn everything you need to know about Security Information & Event Management or SIEM solutions and its role in threat intelligence. What is SIEM? You have learnt in threat intelligence that data & information related to security The post Beginners guide to SIEM appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In this article, you will learn everything you need to know about Incident Response (IR). Unfortunately, unlike pen testing or ethical hacking, the role of incident response becomes important only after a cyber attack or any other cyber incident has occurred. What is Incident Response (IR)? In simple terms, incident response The post Beginners guide to Incident response appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.

Hello, aspiring ethical hackers. In our previous blogpost, you have learnt in detail about malware. In this article, you will learn about malware analysis. What is malware analysis? Malware analysis is the process of analyzing the code of the Virus to find out what it does, how it works, how it evades Antivirus etc. This The post Beginners guide to malware analysis appeared first on Hackercool Magazine.