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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +2 (from 2 votes)SQL Injection is one of the most popular web attacks that the security world has ever witnessed since the evolution of Internet. Till date it remains one of the less understood vulnerability from web security perspective as indicated by growing number of SQL injection attacks.
In this direction, this book [...]

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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +2 (from 2 votes)Sniffing the neighbor’s passwords on the network was an age old stuff and every hacker would have done it at some point of time using tools such as Dsniff, cain & abel etc. Now you can record and listen to your neighbor’s  phone calls too using the tool called UCSniff. [...]

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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: 0 (from 4 votes)Some times back I have written article on using Rainbow crack to recover windows passwords. This article explains how one can crack any windows user passwords in seconds instead of regular brute force approach.
In short, Rainbow crack involves comparing the password hash with precomputed hash tables called rainbow tables to [...]

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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +3 (from 3 votes)“Man without tools is animal and with tools he is everything”. Till today the quote applies to every field man has set his footprints in. Man has created tools for everything to make every small job easier & quicker.
Now we have tool for Social Engineering too. This [...]

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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +7 (from 9 votes)Here is the another good book in the field of penetration testing. Unlike other books which aims only at the technical aspects of Penetration testing, this one explains every step involved in the making of a Professional Pentester.
Rather than just teaching how to use the existing tools,  it does more [...]

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