Archives for May, 2008

Password Cracking ‘Pass The Hash’ style


One of the most time consuming tasks a penetration tester has to face is password attacks. Traditional password attacks involve password guessing, password cracking or a combination of both. While the first can take anything from days to months, the latter can take from hours to days, depending on the quality of the password dictionary […]

Unix Command-Line Kung Fu


I was discussing with a friend a few weeks ago how challenging is to teach folks that come in from the exclusive Windows-world on advanced Unix topics. Yes, I mean the kind of user that ends up rebooting a Unix box after changing a conf file instead of just restarting the appropriate services .
I’m […]