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Articles Categorized as Penetration Testing

  • Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE
    Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE
    BloodHound’s Community Edition has everything a penetration tester needs to enumerate relationships in a domain in order to gain more access, even Domain Admin.
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  • Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC) Fundamentals
    Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC) Fundamentals
    Now that CrackMapExec is no more, how is a pentester to rapidly test credentials, enumerate assets, spray passwords, and more? Learn the basics of NetExec here.
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  • Bypassing ChatGPT’s Open-Source Model Security Restrictions for Agentic Hacking
    Bypassing ChatGPT’s Open-Source Model Security Restrictions for Agentic Hacking
    Ryan Chaplin wondered what it would take to bypass ChatGPT’s open-source model security restrictions to allow AI to hack his website. See how he did it here.
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  • Cool Tools Series: Reptyr
    Cool Tools Series: Reptyr
    Jason Taylor brings highlights reptyr in our Cool Tools series, showing how to take a long-running process, like an Nmap scan, and move it to a new screen.
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  • Five Things to Always Do After Getting Domain Admin
    Five Things to Always Do After Getting Domain Admin
    So you got DA on your red team or internal network penetration test. Here are the five things that Principal Penetration Tester Andrew Trexler does next.
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  • The Hidden Risks in Your Password: What You Type Matters More Than You Think
    The Hidden Risks in Your Password: What You Type Matters More Than You Think
    Raxis has discovered and cracked our fair share of password hashes. Some that we have discovered may surprise you… and their bosses. Learn what not to do.
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