Year: 2015

Learn | Teach Open Source Technologies

Social Engineering

Practicing the art of deception is considerably important when there is no open gate available for an auditor to enter the target network. Thus, using a human attack vector, it is still possible to penetrate the target system by tricking a user into executing malicious code that should give backdoor access to the auditor. Social…
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Types of Penetration Testing

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. These approaches will be discussed in the following sections.  Black box testing

Getting network routing information with Open Source tools

The tools in this category can be used to get the network routing information of a target. We will describe several tools that are commonly used for this purpose. Knowledge of the network routing information will allow the penetration tester to understand the network of the target machine, such as which path is taken by…
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How to Install PostGreSQL on Linux

How to Install PostGreSQL on Linux

DataBase Auditing with Open Source Tool DBPwAudit

DBPwAudit is a Java-based tool designed to audit passwords for Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL, and IBM DB2 servers. The application design is greatly simplified to allow us to add more database technologies, as required. It helps the pentester to discover valid user accounts on the database management system, if not hardened with a secure password policy.…
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How to Audit Information Security using Open Source Security tool OSSEC

OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, root-kit detection, real-time alerting and active response. It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Windows.

Blank Screen fixing on WordPress after Nginx Update from 1.4.6. to 1.6.3

After updating Nginx 1.4.6  to 1.6.3 on Ubuntu 14.04 it goes blank screen on wordpress CMS What to do in this situation. Just open your  default file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ directory

HowTo Build Banana Pi Image using GitHub Source in 9 easy steps

Banana Pi is Chinese made single-board computer  having capability to run Android, Ubuntu and Debian Operating Systems. IT is developed with the intention of promoting the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) education in schools. You can find it’s source on famous Open Source code hosting service  GitHub as BananaPi-Dev.

How to fix SEO friendly URLs in NGINX for WordPress sites

It is very simple to configure your NGINX based SEO friendly URLs for WordPress sites root@www1:/# Now open the NGINX configuration directory by using below steps root@www1:/# cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ root@www1:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled#

How to Test WordPress Security using Open Source Security tool WP-SCAN

Before I dive in this post, I would like to say that everything here for educational purposes only! Now we can move on. WordPress is exceptionally prevalent, on the grounds that is the most easy to use CMS (Content Management System) in the World. Numerous essential organizations or superstars are utilizing WordPress for their sites,…
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