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Table of Contents: 1.  What's in the vault? 2.  Hacking the endpoint is where it's at. 3.  Who done it? 4.  Ethical issues.  This past Tuesday (March 7, 2017), the internet’s online library of cool stuff, WikiLeaks, published the first of what it promises to be many more materials related ...

So, you've done it. You have either successfully bypassed a CMS login or used SQL injection to obtain usernames and password hashes to the CMS and have decrypted the hashes.You are inside the system.What do you do now?The next logical step is privilege escalation .I like to use the WSO.php backdoor to obtain further access. (Shell is located ...

Hello guys!This tutorial is intended for Network Engineers and Administrators on small computer networks.I'm back again with new tricks and tutorial. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to block a social website and adult website on your network. I know you have many techniques to block it, but there is more than one way ...

Hopefully the answer to the question, “How do I get _ certified?” is becoming clearer with each post I write. You may or may not have realized that the certification catalog is continuing to grow, with some of the newest certifications, SQL Injection and Cross-site Scripting, falling into the category of vulnerability specific certifications. ...

When dealing with a health problem, gone are the days when we had to make many phone calls, ask a lot of questions and then wait for a doctor or other medical professional to follow up with us. Today, when it comes to managing our health, the Internet is our number#1 source of information. Consider this: in a 2004 ...

Confidentiality: Confidentiality means protecting sensitive information from disclosure to unauthorized parties which refer to providing the information to right user and protect from wrong user or hacker. Integrity: Integrity means the information is precise and solid and has not been quietly changed or messed with by an unknown or unapproved party.  ...

How to Create an Encrypted Container in Linux to Use on Cloud Storage Services Greetings Cybrarians.This is my first publication, and we will learn how to secure our content when we are using a third party service for Cloud Storage (i.e. Dropbox).We can use this technique for local encryption too.Of course, we have to know that the best solution ...

Several high-profile sexual harassment cases in recent years serve as a reminder how far the tech industry has yet to advance with regard to the fair treatment of women in the workplace. Truth be told, it’s a pervasive problem in our culture that extends well beyond the IT field, however, the problem is particularly acute in IT due to ...

It has been a long period of time since I posted on 0P3N; however, "better late than never" as they say.So, here's another project concept that was taken from my projects' catalog which I want to share with you:  The Critical Services' Vehicles Real-time Tracker project or the CSVRT ...This document provides a deeper look into the project, digging more under the ...

Symmetric and Asymmetric Key Encryption: Forming a Mental Model When being introduced to cryptography , an admittedly daunting subject, it’s best to start at the most common subjects first at a very high level and then go deeper once that view is understood; the nitty-gritty of the mathematics behind the crypto can wait. ...