Krishna March 31, 2004. A watershed in human history. Google’s web-based e-mail service, still now at the time of this writing in Beta, and available only to people invited by other existing users, was launched. Offering a gigabyte of storage, an incredibly advanced JavaScript interface, and a series of user interface innovations, Gmail was an instant … Read more
Although there are different types of penetration testing, the two most general approaches that are widely accepted by the industry are the black box and white box. Black box testing While applying this approach, the security auditor will be assessing the network infrastructure and will not be aware of any internal technologies deployed by the … Read more
For the second example, we will use a simple program called cisco_crack ( http://insecure.org/sploits/cisco.passwords.html ). This tool is used to crack the Cisco type 7 password. After downloading the source code, the next step is to compile it. Before you can compile the source code cleanly, you need to add the following include statements: #include … Read more
Kali Linux consists of hundreds of pieces of application software and an operating system kernel. You may need to update the software if you want to get the latest features. We suggest that you only update the software and kernel from the Kali Linux software package repository. The first thing to do after you have … Read more
The first thing to do before installing and using Kali Linux is to download it. You can get Kali Linux from the Kali Linux website ( http://www.kali.org/downloads/ ). On the download page, you can select the official Kali Linux image based on the following items, which is also shown in the next screenshot: • Machine … Read more
Kali Linux contains a number of tools that can be used during the penetration testing process. The penetration testing tools included in Kali Linux can be categorized into the following categories: • Information gathering: This category contains several tools that can be used to gather information about DNS, IDS/IPS, network scanning, operating systems, routing, SSL, … Read more
Kali Linux (Kali) is a Linux distribution system that was developed with a focus on the penetration testing task. Previously, Kali Linux was known as BackTrack, which itself is a merger between three different live Linux penetration testing distributions: IWHAX, WHOPPIX, and Auditor. BackTrack is one of the most famous Linux distribution systems, as can … Read more
McAfee products have been around for years and are still top quality. They are popular with big businesses and home users a like. There is a Hoax database on the Web site. McAfee VirusScan is available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages.
Here is another solid product with home and corporate editions. NOD32 Antivirus System is also available in German, Portuguese, Czech, Spanish, Italian, and Polish versions.
Produced by USA-based Central Command, Vexira is available for Windows and many other types of computers. The illustration on the cover of their boxed product has a man wearing a white lab coat who is holding up a test tube of real computer viruses (would I kid you?).