Information Gathering - Why? How? & What?

Lets suppose any thriller stealing movie. Think what does robbers do before they hack the bank or anything else? They gather the information. They collect each and every information about bank system, alarm methodology, CCTV interface, Guards changing time, list of weapons having with guards.After gathering information they make plan and attack or rob the bank. You all are clever. So assume they don't have these much of information and they are going to rob bank directly, what will happen ? You will find them caught with by police.

Same scenario also applied in information security world. Before attacking or testing something a hacker/tester needs to find the information about his/her target. Now this target can be a network, web application, organization or a person. In our world finding information is also called as footprinting or doxing. Also the term reconnaissance can be used sometimes.

Penetration Testing - FTP Service

[1] The source code of the older version of ProFTPD server (1.3.3a) was downloaded from the ProFTPD source code repository located at ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.3.3a.tar.bz2.

Penetration Testing - SAMBA SERVER

Aim: The aim is to understand how the countermeasures are applied in order to protect the potential vulnerable organization using the samba server.

Detail summery of configuration in Victim computer.

The attacker system, victim server (Linux) and client (Windows XP) was setup in a virtual environment using VMware workstation 9. They all belong to the host only network and are isolated from the rest of the network.

Web Service With CGI Support - Penetration Testing

This report shows an hands-on penetration testing using Apache server with cgi access, it identifies some vulnerabilities and performs exploits with this vulnerability and It further patches it by mitigating this known threats.

INTRODUCTION

APACHE

Apache can also be referred to as Apache HTTP Server. It is a standard that is established for allocating services for website online which has developed the World Wide Web. It is a free platform of web server which is been used by most of the website. The server is been used by most of the operating systems e.g. Unix, Linux, Window, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS etc but was originally designed for Unix.