Hunting & Cracking Specific Ports/Services In A Network

If we have an initial foothold on a network, we want to be able to push on from there. We can search for open shares (as discussed in my other post) or we can start looking for specific services/ports on the network. For example – we have access to an endpoint which doesn’t contain a […]

Metasploitable 2 – Password Hash Cracking with John the Ripper

This post assumes you have access to a the target filesystem in question and want to extract and then crack the password hashes from the local machine. In this example I am going to crack the account passwords used in Metasploitable 2 but the techniques here can be used in many different scenarios. John the […]