Word press is one of the most used blogging platforms, and word press core (word press without plugins) is pretty much secure already. As word press is a blogging platform we need additional plugins to extend its functionalities, there are many plugins available to even completely change your word press installation to an e-commerce site. But even the word press…
How to use sqlmap to hack a website through SQL Injection!
Disclaimer: This article is only for educational purposes, please only perform this penetration test on the site you are authorized to pen test. I know this method has been discussed alot many times already on many blogs and sites, but still I would want to explain it a little differently. Tools or softwares that you need to perform this tests…
5 Steps to secure newly installed web server
Linux is most popular operating system to be used as web server. Because it servers the purpose very well because it is light weight, secure and can serve a lot of user requests easily. But still their is a room for improvement in case of security since web server is a public service and their is a chance of getting…
Packet sniffing using Snort
I’ve explained in my last tutorial that how you can install snort on Ubuntu, if you have not installed it yet you can click here. In my article where I explained how to install snort, I mentioned that snort have two running modes, today we will see how we can do packet sniffing using snort. What is packet sniffing? In…
How to install snort intrusion detection system on Ubuntu!
Snort is a signature based intrusion detection system, it either drop or accept the packets coming on a certain interface depending on the rules you have used. In a signature based intrusion detection system packets headers and their payloads are matched against specific predefined rules/strings to see if they contain a malicious content. Snort can run in two modes: Packet…