Tag Archives: Penetration Testing

The Hacker Mindset

We’ve all seen Hollywood’s depiction of hackers. Flashing graphics, strange clothing, all night soda binges. This fantastical display of the ‘hacker subculture’ provides very little insight into the technical aspects of hacking. Very little of what we see is remotely … Continue reading

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crackIt: aircrack-ng automated

I was playing around with my wireless network early today and realized I didn’t have the key written down near by where I was working. Rather than expending the effort of getting up and moving, I decided I’d just crack … Continue reading

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Using RefControl

Continuing on with my web application penetration testing series I will now go into the usage of RefControl. RefControl is useful in checking referrer-based exploits, such as CSRF. RefControl RefControl allows you to specify the referrer for a site when … Continue reading

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Using Tamper Data

In my previous post on penetration testing I mentioned various tools that I use for web application testing. In this post and future posts, I will go into some of these tools and how I use them. This post will … Continue reading

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