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  • Password Series: 8 Practical First Steps to Crack Difficult Passwords

    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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  • Cool Tools Series: Vim

    Cool Tools Series: How Vim Powers Penetration Testing

    Principal Penetration Tester, Andrew Trexler, dives into Vim, a powerful command line tool for text files, and shows useful commands for penetration testing.
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  • Cool Tools Series: Masscan

    Cool Tools Series: Masscan for Penetration Testing

    Continuing our Cool Tools Series, Lead Penetration Tester Andrew Trexler shows how to use masscan for discovery scanning on large networks in penetration tests.
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  • Password Series: Defeating Emerging Password Security Trends with Psudohash

    Password Series: Defeating Emerging Password Security Trends with Psudohash for Penetration Testing

    Lead Pentester Ryan Chaplin discusses emerging improvements in password security and how Psudohash can help bypass them on penetration tests.
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  • Cool Tools Series: MSFvenom

    Cool Tools Series: How MSFvenom Powers Penetration Testing

    Nathan Anderson intros MSFvenom, a Metasploit tool that generates & encodes payloads to obtain reverse shells & gain network access for penetration testing.
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