A brute force attack uses trial-and-error to guess login info, encryption keys, or find a hidden web page. Hackers work through all possible combinations hoping to guess correctly. What is brute force A brute-force attack is one of the most…
Hashcat is a password recovery tool. It had a proprietary code base until 2015, but was then released as open source software. Versions are available for Linux, OS X, and Windows. What is Hashcat Hashcat is the quickest password recovery…
Parameter tampering is a simple attack targeting the application business logic. This attack takes advantage of the fact that many programmers rely on hidden or fixed fields (such as a hidden tag in a form or a parameter in a URL)…
What is NMAP(Network Mapper) NMAP(Network Mapper) is developed by ‘Gordon Lyon’. NMAP (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. It uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts…
