Step-by-Step Hacking Tutorials

On Tuesday, November 1 2022 between 1300-1700 UTC, the OpenSSL project announced the release of a new version of OpenSSL (version 3.0.7) that will patch a critical vulnerability in OpenSSL version 3.0 and above. Only OpenSSL versions between 3.0 and 3.0.6 are affected at the time of writing. At this moment the details of this […] The post CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786: OpenSSL 3.0.7 patches Critical Vulnerability appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

Following the previous tutorial in which we looked at the log4j vulnerability in VMWare vSphere server, I got some questions about how to set up a malicious LDAP server on Linux. The attacker controlled LDAP server is required to provide the malicious java class (with a reverse shell for example) in response to the forged […] The post Installing Rogue-jndi on Kali Linux appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

Log4Shell is a critical vulnerability with the highest possible CVSSv3 score of 10.0 that affects thousands of products running Apache Log4j and leaves millions of targets potentially vulnerable. CVE-2021-44228 affects log4j versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1. Log4j is an incredibly popular logging library used in many different products and various Apache frameworks like Struts2, Kafka, and […] The post Log4Shell VMware vCenter Server (CVE-2021-44228) appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

Recently a “design flaw” in the Microsoft Exchange’s Autodiscover protocol was discovered by researchers that allowed access to 372,072 Windows domain credentials and 96,671 unique sets of credentials from applications such as Microsoft Outlook and third-party email clients. According to Amit Serper , the person who discovered the flaw, the source of the leak is […] The post The Great Leak: Microsoft Exchange AutoDiscover Design Flaw appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

A week before the 2019 holidays Citrix announced that an authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in multiple Citrix products. The affected products are the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (formerly known as NetScaler AD), Citrix Gateway NetScaler ADC (formerly known as NetScaler Gateway), and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance. Exploiting the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker […] The post CVE-2019-19781: Citrix ADC RCE vulnerability appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

For all scans so far, we’ve only used the default scan configurations such as host discovery, system discovery and Full & fast. But what if we don’t want to run all NVTs on a given target (list) and only test for a few specific vulnerabilities? In this case we can create our own custom scan […] The post Vulnerability Scanning with OpenVAS 9 part 4: Custom scan configurations appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

In the previous parts of the Vulnerability Scanning with OpenVAS 9 tutorials we have covered the installation process and how to run vulnerability scans using OpenVAS and the Greenbone Security Assistant (GSA) web application. In part 3 of Vulnerability Scanning with OpenVAS 9 we will have a look at how to run scans using different […] The post Vulnerability Scanning with OpenVAS 9 part 3: Scanning the Network appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

Is the previous tutorial Vulnerability Scanning with OpenVAS 9.0 part 1 we’ve gone through the installation process of OpenVAS on Kali Linux and the installation of the virtual appliance. In this tutorial we will learn how to configure and run a vulnerability scan. For demonstration purposes we’ve also installed a virtual machine with Metasploitable 2 […] The post Vulnerability Scanning with OpenVAS 9 part 2: Vulnerability Scanning appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

A couple years ago we did a tutorial on Hacking Tutorials on how to install the popular vulnerability assessment tool OpenVAS on Kali Linux. We’ve covered the installation process on Kali Linux and running a basic scan on the Metasploitable 2 virtual machine to identify vulnerabilities. In this tutorial I want to cover more details […] The post Vulnerability Scanning with OpenVAS 9 part 1: Installation & Setup appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.

One of the most popular and most asked questions since I’ve started this blog is if I can recommend some good hacking books to read for beginners and more experienced hackers and penetration testers. In this article I want to highlight some hacking books and InfoSec books that I personally liked that cover subjects such as ethical hacking, […] The post The Best Hacking Books 2018 appeared first on Hacking Tutorials.