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Wireless Series: Using Wifite to Capture and Crack a WPA2 Pre-Shared Key for Penetration Testing

Principal Penetration Tester Scottie Cole begins our wireless penetration testing series with capturing and cracking a WPA2 Pre-Shared Key using Wifite.

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Jailbreak Journey: Transforming an iPad for Mobile App Penetration Testing

Lead Penetration Tester Jason Taylor takes us step-by-step through jailbreaking an iPad 7 for use in penetration testing.

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Cisco Releases Patch for CVE-2025-20188 – 10.0 CVSS

Critical Alert – Patch Immediately. Cisco Releases Patch for CVE-2025-20188 – 10.0 CVSS. This vulnerability affects Cisco Catalyst 9800 wireless controllers.

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Cool Tools Series: CeWL for Penetration Testing

Lead Penetration Tester Jason Taylor discusses how the CeWL Custom Word List generator can improve hashcat results for penetration testing.

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AD Series: Using Evil-WinRM to Get NTDS Manually in Penetration Tests

Principal Penetration Tester Andrew Trexler’s Active Directory series is back, showing how to use Evil-WinRM to copy NTDS.dit manually in penetration tests.

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Password Series: 8 Practical First Steps to Crack Difficult Passwords in Penetration Tests

From rulesets & hardware to wordlists and mask attacks, Lead Penetration Tester Ryan Chaplin shows how to crack difficult password hashes in penetration tests.

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