Metasploit penetration testing Cookbook released!

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 8/23/2012 4:07:00 PM

'Metasploit® software helps security and IT professionals identify security issues, verify vulnerability mitigations, and manage expert-driven security assessments. Capabilities include smart exploitation, password auditing, web application scanning, and social engineering. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports. The goal of the software'

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From free blog hosting to International Author - A journey of 3 years

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 1/23/2012 7:53:00 PM

'Hello Friends and readers. Today HackingAlert completes its 3 years of operation. First of all I would like to apologize for the delay in posts these days as I got a bit busy with relocating to another city. I will be actively blogging again from next month. Today is a day of celebration for HackingAlert. The blog has completed 3 years of tough yet successful operation. Over the coarse'

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Internet Observatory Setting New Heights with Real-Time IP Traffic Trends

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 1/6/2012 9:13:00 PM

'Hello Friends. Here is a guest post from Adriana Jones on a very interesting topic. Special thanks to Adriana from HackingAlert for sharing this article. You can find her bio at the end of the article. It is like a watchful eye always hovering over the Internet. It is like someone keeping the Internet users on a leash. What is it actually? It is nothing but a service or a service'

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Technologies that will heat up in 2012

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 1/6/2012 8:49:00 PM

'Hello Friends. Lets start the new year with the first post contributed by many readers. Its never easy to predict the flow of technology as it can be at times turbulent and at times mild. Still HackingAlert collected some advice from its readers. So here are a few technologies that can shine up in 2012. Tablets Undoubtedly tablets will outshine smart phones in 2012. With the'

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BlogRoll 2011 - Top 5 Articles of 2011 on HackingAlert

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/31/2011 7:38:00 PM

'Hope you liked the first part of the blog roll. Here is the final release of the blog roll to close the year 2011. Continuing from the previous roll, here are the top 5 posts for the year 2011. Again I will thank all the readers for their support. 5. Complete guide to defacing a website - CookBook This article created a revolution on HackingAlert. Special thanks to team innobuzz for'

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BlogRoll 2011 - Most Popular Tutorials on HackingAlert

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/31/2011 10:06:00 AM

'Hello Friends. The end of 2011 is approaching. HackingAlert had lots of special memories. lots of tutorials and articles were posted. Some were disliked, some were appriciated and some became a Hit on Internet. This year, Hackingalert posted a total of 156 blog posts which counts to about 3 lakh page views for this year. This yar has been excellient in terms of stats. Well we will talk about'

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Contribute to HackingAlert : Submit An Article on Technologies that will heatup in 2012

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/30/2011 10:32:00 AM

'Hello friends. HackingAlert had a glorious 2011 and its full credit goes to you readers. Its your support and suggestions which has kept me going. Even with scarcity of time, I still had to push myself to write on the blog and I was able to make that extra push just because of the encouragement I got from you all. I am thankful to all of you. So I have decided to post the first article of'

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A simple HTML tag to crash 64-bit Windows 7

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/25/2011 9:53:00 AM

'Yea that's true. This small ( not exactly small) iframe is powerful enough to crash down a 64 bit Win7 system to the famous Blue Screen Of Death (BSoD). This vulnerability has been recently reported by w3bd3vil (awsome work!!) This has been tested on Windows 7, 64 bit version, running Safari. I hate the blue screen of death so didnt bother about'

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SOPA - the end of the internet as we know it!!

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/23/2011 8:06:00 PM

'Imagine an internet where you dont have video uploading websites youtube or vomio. Imagine an internet where you dont have photo uploading sites like flickr and photobucket. Imagine an internet where you can blog not by your choice, but by that or others. At the worse imagine an internet where a Google search for "download Firefox" will return no results. An internet of this kind will not'

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5 Things to do when you are hit by a Facebook spam

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/16/2011 9:47:00 AM

'These days there are two things that are spreading fast on facebook: First is the spam containing inappropriate content. Second is the photo people are sharing after they are hit by the spam( and putting all blame on hackers). Recently one of my friends pointed out a strange thing happening with his account. He tried to delete the spam but in turn it started spreading through his'

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"It Happens on Live television" Facebook spam demystified - A completely new form of Spam

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/12/2011 9:55:00 PM

'Hello friends. I love facebook spams. The reason is that you will find the best use of javascript, flash, facebook plugins and of coarse social engineering. There is always so much to learn. The last faebook spam which we looked at here in HackingAlert was the "How can Rehanna Do this" Facebook spam. It was a browser vulnerability which was floating around for some days. Fortunately only'

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Why Email attachments can be dangerous?

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/12/2011 5:51:00 PM

'Festive season is on. Online e-commerce sites are busy attracting users. Similarly Spammers are also prepared to utilize the season for spreading spam and malwares. Recently I got a mail from Coca Cola(spam ofcorse) which said that I won lots of dollars( it ws so much that I dont remember the exact amount). It had a malicious pdf attachment. Hiding malicious codes inside pdf has become a'

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Cross site scripting(XSS) Cheat Sheet - Readers Choice!!

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/11/2011 5:34:00 PM

'Hello friends. These days I am on an XSS rampage. I recently posted an article on XSS vulnerability in Babylon search. Since then I got several request from the readers to post a quick article on cross site scriptting. This tutorial will be divided into two parts. In the first part I will cover the basics of XSS and how the attack vector is implemented. In the next tutorial we will discuss'

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Namedpipe impersonation Attacks

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/9/2011 7:24:00 PM

'Privilege escalation through namedpipe impersonation attack was a real issue back in 2000 when a flaw in the service control manager allowed any user logged onto a machine to steal the identify of SYSTEM. We haven't heard a lot about this topic since then, is it still an issue? First of all, let's talk about the problem. When a process creates a namedpipe server, and a client connects'

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Complete Guide to staying Anonymous on Internet - Combining VMs and VPNs

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/8/2011 4:04:00 PM

'"the Reason which makes Anonymous hactivists dangerous is that they are really ANONYMOUS - Darklord" Hello friends. Sorry for the delay in post. Still waiting for the day when time will be in abundance for me. Today I have an interesting post for you all. In one of my several older posts I have been discussing how to penetrate different websites, perform attacks, gain information etc.'

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HackingAlert Enters Beta phase for Renewation

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/4/2011 7:26:00 PM

'Hello friends. Yeas 2011 has been a very good  for HackingAlert. Especially the last 5 months. The blog has seen tremendous growth over this year. Lots of new reader and followers joined it and also encouraged me with their comments and suggestions. Day by day , month by month the traffic kept on growing and today HackingAlert is amongst the high ranked blogs in terms of hacking and network'

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When Social Networks Become Social Engineering Tools for hacking - A Case study of hacking 10 Facebook friends in 10 minutes

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/3/2011 7:38:00 PM

'These days hacking community is buzzing with social engineering techniques for hacking. People discuss what can be the best social engineering technique they can adopt. These days I am addicted to 2 things very badly. One is metasploit and other is Social networks( facebook to be precise). So I though of mixing these two addictions of mine to craft a special Social engineered attack'

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XSS vulnerability in Babylon search

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/2/2011 8:35:00 PM

'Recently I installed a software which changed my default search of firefox to Babylon search. It is a popular search engine and ranks high in alexa. The search engine can be reached at  http://search.babylon.com/home The search engine is vulnerable to a perticular type of XSS attack. Since no one has ever reported about a vulnerability in this search engine so I can take the credit ( cool man'

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Complete SQL injection tutorial with Havij

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/2/2011 7:14:00 PM

'Hello friends. This is my third post on SQL injection and for the first time I am using a tool for explaining it. Here I will be using a popular and my personal favourite SQLi tool Havij. To download Havij visit the following link - DOWNLOAD HAVIJ. Let us now understand how this tool works. The tutorial can be used for any SQLi tool as the basic functioning is same for all. First thing you need'

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The Mole - New SQL injection tool+tutorial

Author : abhinav singh      Blog : ethical hacking      Date : 12/2/2011 12:58:00 PM

'The Mole is an automatic SQL Injection exploitation tool. Only by providing a vulnerable URL and a valid string on the site it can detect the injection and exploit it, either by using the union technique or a boolean query based technique. Features  Support for injections using Mysql, SQL Server, Postgres and Oracle databases. Command line interface. Different commands trigger'

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