Vulnerability Scanning With Metasploit

Vulnerability scanning is part of penetration testing. A vulnerability scanner is an automated program designed to look for weaknesses in computer systems, networks, and applications. There are many vulnerability scanners available for penetration Testing. But here we use Metasploit framework for scanning vulnerability.

 Various operating systems respond differently because of the different networking implementations in use. These unique responses that vulnerability scanner uses to determine the operating system version and even its patch level. A vulnerability scanner can also use a given set of user credentials to log into the remote system and enumerate the software and services to determine whether they are patched.

Information Gathering Through Metasploit

Your goals during information gathering should be to gain accurate information about your targets without revealing your presence or your intentions, to learn how the organization operates, and to determine the best route. Metasploit is a best console for information gathering it is very comprehensive penetration testing tool. In this article, I am going to cover whole information gathering of a network using Metasploit.

Information gathering requires careful planning, research, and, most importantly, the ability to think like an attacker. At this step, you will attempt to collect as much information about the target environment as possible.

There are two types of information gathering passive and active.

CASE STUDY – NEWS OF THE WORLD PHONE HACKING SCANDAL (NOTW)

The world is growing rapidly with various technologies, and accordingly the illegal activities are being increased by adopting these new technologies. Every country has their own laws and regulations. In the UK people are convicted under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 for illegal activities, which are done with the help of technologies, and there are evidences proved that many people have been sentenced under those laws (Turner, M., 2013).Apart from that, there are few regulations such as RIPA 2000, which gives power to certain authorities in the UK to carry out surveillance or intercepting the communications against a person for a specific reason. The question is that how these laws are being used effectively and reasonably? Gaining information illegally or by misusing the power of rights is against the law and publishing this information is unethical and against Media Regulations.

Practical Buffer Overflow - Vulnerability Disclosure

Attackers generally use buffer overflows to corrupt the execution stack of a web application. By sending carefully crafted input to a web application, an attacker can cause the web application to execute arbitrary code, possibly taking over the machine. Attackers have managed to identify buffer overflows in a staggering array of products and components. Buffer overflow flaws can be present in both the web server and application server products that serve the static and dynamic portions of a site, or in the web application itself. Buffer overflows found in commonly-used server products are likely to become widely known and can pose a significant risk to users of these products. When web applications use libraries, such as a graphics library to generate images or a communications library to send e-mail, they open themselves to potential buffer overflow attacks.

Ideal Information Security Policy for SME

Information security shortly (named called as IS) is a critical part of any small scale company and a big enterprise. To preserve private information is a big challenge for any firm. Information security involves very confidential important assets and other business process.It also includes all those private financial documents and also private information of each and every employers within the organization. In some case information may also include client’s important assets. Without having proper security of all these information, it becomes unreliable. Having lack of proper security mechanism sometimes it is also inaccessible when it is really needed. Lack of security can also invite 3^rd parties to let them compromise these private assets and information. Information has two types.

Theoretical Methodology for Detecting ICMP Reflected Attacks: SMURF Attacks

There are plenty of different ways to track the original source of a DoS attack, but those techniques are not efficient enough to track a reflected ICMP attack. When I say “reflected ICMP attack,” that means a SMURF attack. Here I am going to show you a new model to trackback the reflective DOS attack caused by ICMP packets.This is a very efficient method, because you can do this with the help of a really few attack packets. We have seen that, to detect ICMP attacks in direct attack, we need a large amount of packets to be revised, which is not true in this case.

Computer Forensics Investigation – A Case Study

Computer technology is the major integral part of everyday human life, and it is growing rapidly, as are computer crimes such as financial fraud, unauthorized intrusion, identity theft and intellectual theft. To counteract those computer-related crimes, Computer Forensics plays a very important role. “Computer Forensics involves obtaining and analysing digital information for use as evidence in civil, criminal or administrative cases (Nelson, B., et al., 2008)”. A Computer Forensic Investigation generally investigates the data which could be taken from computer hard disks or any other storage devices with adherence to standard policies and procedures to determine if those devices have been compromised by unauthorised access or not. Computer Forensics Investigators work as a team to investigate the incident and conduct the forensic analysis by using various methodologies (e.g. Static and Dynamic) and tools (e.g. ProDiscover or Encase) to ensure the computer network system is secure in an organization.

Spoofing Ports To Trick Bad Guys

Portspoof is meant to be a lightweight, fast, portable and secure addition to the any firewall system or security system. The general goal of the program is to make the reconessaince phase slow and bothersome for your attackers as much it is only possible. This is quite a change to the standard 5s Nmap scan, that will give a full view of your systems running services.