In June 2011, the official vsftpd download server (hosted on SourceForge) was compromised. An attacker replaced the legitimate vsftpd 2.3.4 source code with a backdoored version. Any server that ...

This repository documents a partial black-box penetration test conducted on HackSudo Thor, an intentionally vulnerable virtual machine published on VulnHub by Vishal Waghmare. The goal was to simulate ...

When most people think of hacking, they think of Linux. I used to turn my nose up at even the idea of hacking from a Mac because it didn’t make sense. Nowadays, it’s all I’ve been using for my OSINT ...

Penetration testing, often referred to as pen testing, is a critical practice in the field of cybersecurity. It involves simulating cyber-attacks on a system, network, or web application to identify ...

When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research ...

Kali Linux is the world’s most popular offensive-security-optimized Linux distro. Maintained and managed by the fine folks at Offensive Security, Kali was born in 2006 as BackTrack Linux, but after a ...

FireEye today released Commando VM, which according to the company, is a "first of its kind Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming." When it comes to the ...