REMOTE SHELL - Penetration Testing

Introduction: SSH secure shell is used to establish a remote connection to a Linux box where SSH service is running. SSH runs on port 22 and applications like Open SSH v2.0 provide SSH utilities.  SSH can protect a network from attacks like IP spoofing, IP source routing etc,. However, we will study some vulnerabilities associated with SSH and provide necessary counter measures.

Brute force Directory and Files on a Web server using dirb and Backtrack 4

One of the most commonly used web application directory/files brute force tool is dirbuster from OWASP ; which is a GUI based tool written using java. Dirb is also a directory/files bruter force tool but unlike owasp Dirbuster; it is a command line utility and can be run from a shell. It is available for download at : http://dirb.sourceforge.net/