Krishna Social engineering, like the other attacks we have explored in this book, consists of multiple phases, each designed to move the attacker one step closer to the ultimate goal. Let’s look at each of these phases and how the information gained from one leads to the next: 1. Gather information and details about a target … Read more
Why has social engineering been successful, and why will it continue to be so? To answer this, you must first understand why it works and what this means to you as a pentesters. Going after the human being instead of the technology works for a number of reasons: Trust Human beings are a trusting lot. … Read more
Social engineering is a term that is widely used but poorly understood. It’s generally defined as any type of attack that is nontechnical in nature and that involves some type of human interaction with the goal of trying to trick or coerce a victim into revealing information or violate normal security practices. Social engineers are … Read more
Sniffing tools are extremely common applications. A few interesting ones are: Wireshark One of the most widely known and used packet sniffers. Offers a tremendous number of features designed to assist in the dissection and analysis of traffic. TCPdump A well-known command-line packet analyzer. Provides the ability to intercept and observe TCP/IP and other packets … Read more
A system that collects tyre dust – particles of tyre that are emitted when a vehicle is in operation – as they are emitted, has won its creators the James Dyson Award. Tyre wear is the second-largest microplastic pollutant in our ocean after single-use plastic and accounts for up to 50 per cent of PM2.5 … Read more
Tesco has joined a group of large businesses including Dixons Carphone, E.ON, Heathrow, Lime and SSE that have called on the Government to bring forward the date for when new petrol and diesel vehicles should be banned from sale to 2030. The original 2040 date for the ban was announced in 2017, although some MPs … Read more
Tesla founder Elon Musk has unveiled his firm’s latest battery technology which promises more affordable cars that can travel longer distances, but the three-year timeframe necessary before commercialisation has not impressed investors. Musk envisions future electric cars priced as low as $25,000 (£19,657) that will be able to drive themselves once the new battery tech comes to … Read more
When you are working with Trojans and other malware, you need to be aware of covert and overt channels. As mentioned earlier in the chapter , the difference between the two is that an overt channel is put in place by design and represents the legitimate or intended way for the system or process to … Read more
A wide range of tools exist that are used to take control of a victim’s system and leave behind a gift in the form of a backdoor. This is not an exhaustive list, and newer versions of many of these are released regularly: let me rule—A remote access Trojan authored entirely in Delphi. It uses … Read more
A Trojan can be detected in many ways. Port scanning, which can prove very effective if you know what to look for. Because a Trojan is used to allow access through backdoors or covert channels, a port must be opened to allow this communication. A port scan using a tool such as Nmap reveals these … Read more