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Malicious Network Traffic Analysis with Wireshark
Overview - Wireshark Workflow This is an example of my workflow for examining malicious network traffic. The traffic I've chosen is traffic from The Honeynet Project and is one of their challenges captures. For small pcaps I like to use Wireshark just because its...
Hardware – Network Interface Card (NIC)
Basics Network interface cards or NIC's are what connect computers to networks. If you haven't heard about it yet, the OSI Model is the concept that all computers use to communicate with each other. There are seven layers the begin with the physical layer which go...
OvertheWire – Bandit 25
Recap of Level 24: Created a little BASH script to cause a cron job. Bandit Level 25 Objective: Brute force the server listening on port 30002 using the password for Bandit 24. Intel Given: A daemon or service is listening on port 30002 Sending the password for...
Cable Modem Terminology/Technology Guide
Introduction What is DOCSIS? What is downstream vs upstream? What are cable modem channels? What is channel bonding? What is QAM? Introduction If you’ve tried to purchase a cable modem recently, you’ll be met with a barrage of terminology that you may have never heard...
Why You Should Learn Python First
This is not a discussion on how to hack or program with python, it’s a discussion on why I personally chose python as my first programming language. I’m not a developer, I’ve never written a program from source code to production. So when I started looking for a...
Passive Recon – Hacking with Google Dorking
Google Dorking can technically be defined as a type of hacking by itself. The basic idea of Google Dorking is to used Google's advanced search features/operators to obtain information about someone, or something. In general we know that Google Search is a big database...
