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WordPress is one of the most popular CMS among its entire open source competitor. WordPress has very simple and open framework. It is the most desirable choice of any hacker to start learning hacking with it. Today we will look at tool called wpscan. This tool is vulnerability scanner for any WordPress installation. It will [...]
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Till now we have seen theory part of web application security. Now I will try to include various ethical hacking/ penetration testing aspects with visual / video. At initial level we will cover at least one tool from each module. Today we will look at WHATWEB – A web scanner to identify Content Management System. [...]
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Scan Types: Central Scan or Individual Scan? It is always the question which type of scan is more effective? Both scans have pros and cons. For example Central Scan is comparatively slow while as individual scan is fast. Central scan can be invoked and monitored form one location while as individual scan should be done [...]
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Goal of Vulnerability Assessment Goal of network vulnerability assessment is to verify whether all deployed applications / special purpose servers are working normally without any major vulnerability/flaws or not. If we look at basic network structure we have some Antivirus , HIPS (Host based intruder prevention system), NIDS (Network based intruder detection system), NIPS(Network based [...]
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In previous blog post we understood about what is vulnerability and what is exploit. In this blog post we will look at why any organization should go for vulnerability assessment? And what is the major difference between Penetration Testing and Vulnerability assessment. We will take a look at ISO 27001 requirement for vulnerability assessment. Why [...]
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This series blog post is going to give you some details regarding vulnerability, what is vulnerability assessment, why vulnerability assessment. It will not give you in depth idea about the vulnerability assessment but it will give you basic understating about the above mentioned topics. In computer terms vulnerability means weakness. This weakness may be due [...]
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