[ad] I’ve seen quite a lot of discussion lately on how to ‘defend against nmap’ or how to change the properties of your TCP/IP Stack so your Windows OS appears to be something else (As in you can guess the OS from the TTL value passed back in a TCP/IP packet). One way you can […]
Networking Hacking Tools
Networking Hacking is an offensive branch of computer security related to networks hacking and the penetration of a target via the networking services or equipment.
Examples of network hacking tools include Kismet – Wireless Network Hacking, Sniffing & Monitoring, THC-Hydra – The Fast and Flexible Network Login Hacking Tool, Infernal Twin Updated 2.6.11 – Automated Wireless Hacking Suite and Firesheep – Social Network Session Stealing/Hijacking Tool.
Network hacking would also include WLAN hacking, wifi hacking, wireless hacking, Cisco hacking and so on which would rely on various different types of network hacking software.
Types of Networking Hacking
In this day and age, pretty much all hacking takes place across some kind of network (be it a private network or LAN, the public Internet, a darknet, public radio networks or any other kind).
You can find the best resources and networking hacking tools below.
10 Best Security Live CD Distros (Pen-Test, Forensics & Recovery)
1. BackTrack The newest contender on the block of course is BackTrack, which we have spoken about previously. An innovative merge between WHax and Auditor (WHax formely WHoppix). BackTrack is the result of the merging of two Innovative Penetration Testing live Linux distributions Whax and Auditor, combining the best features from both distributions, and paying […]
SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part IV
4. Brief How-to …. Creating Multiple clients to Single site tunnels. Example of using PKI to create a client-to-site VPN: For a road warrior or roaming/multiple user scenario, static keys based VPNs don’t scale well. You will need to implement a PKI if you have Hub and Spoke architecture of VPN. From the OpenVPN.net website: […]
SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part III
3. Brief How-to ….. OpenVPN and Site-to-Site Tunnels. OpenVPN can be implemented either Site-to-site or client-server model. I will take example configurations of both models. If you want to implement site-to-site configuration, the best way is to use static-keys instead of PKI. Using static keys, you can have your VPN tunnel up and running in […]
SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part II
2. Why OpenVPN Here, in this article, I will lay down the emphasis on one important Open-Source SSL VPN software written by James Yonan and contributed by several others, which proposes security without the inherent complexity of IPsec AND using a trusted design of client component and VPN server. Usually VPNs require end points which […]