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Easy-HCX: Making Wifi Attacks Easy

Last year a new attack on WPA2 was announced by the creators of hashcat - one that didn't require capturing the 4-way handshake, any client interaction or any kind of client even connected. With a vulnerable access point, you can try to associate with the access point, capture a PMKID

Hack the Box Writeup: Irked

This was a pretty fun and straightforward little box and would be great practice for anyone studying for the OSCP. Nmap shows a few things running: > PORT      STATE SERVICE REASON         VERSION 22/tcp    open  ssh     syn-ack ttl 63 OpenSSH 6.7p1 Debian 5+deb8u4 (protocol 2.0) 80/tcp    open

No OpenVPN? No Problem!

Last year I was out of the country and wanted to check some things on my home network. I connected to the guest-only wifi network provided in the hotel lobby and was  thoroughly annoyed to find that I could not connect to my OpenVPN server. I did a bit of

Hack the Box Writeup: Vault

This was an awesome multi-layered machine that taught me a lot so I loved it! I'm sure there are easier, better and more efficient ways to complete this box but this is how I did it. Nmap scan to start: > 22/tcp open  ssh     OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4ubuntu2.4

Geolocation of SSH Attacks

If you've ever looked at firewall logs on a public facing machine, you know that anything on the internet is constantly being probed and attacked - seeing hard evidence of this is enough to make one quite paranoid. When it comes to a ssh server, one of the things you

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