Real Life Phishing Scenario : Zero Day google bug

A reader on my blog tried to hack my account

Now all this time I've been teaching people how to hack Wireless networks, Windows machines, Websites and Social Networking accounts. All this we did in Kali Linux. For once, I'm moving away from the operating system and narrating a real life incidence of how someone almost got my Email account and password, and could have possibly infected me with a RAT (remote administration tool). He didn't really mean to hack my account, but was rather interested in making a point. So this is how it happened.

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So You Want To Be A Hacker

Ah! The world of hackers. It has changed much from the fabled green black terminal operated by guys with spectacles on their eyes and a serious look on their face. Now even a script kiddie who types a few lines on a Kali Linux calls himself a hacker. The terminal is still there, but the colors have changed. It's black terminal with text of all colors. But who cares about the colors. It's the new Operating Systems : The likes of Kali Linux,

Backtrack, BackBox Linux, Node Zero, Blackbuntu, and many more, which have made hacking much easier. However, has it got easy enough? No. Not at all.

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Hack WPA/WPA2 PSK Capturing the Handshake

 WPA password hacking

Okay, so hacking WPA-2 PSK involves 2 main steps-

1. Getting a handshake (it contains the hash of password, i.e. encrypted password)
2. Cracking the hash.

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Add new exploits to Metasploit from Exploit-db

All this time you were just using mainstream exploits which were famous but old. They worked well, but only with old unpatched operating systems, not the updated ones. Now it's time to move on to the next step. Our poor experience against Windows 8 and Java 7u60 left us shattered, and we realized that fully patched and updated machines with strong antivirus and firewall can be pretty  hard to break into. Now we will move into the world of real pentesting, and the first step would be introduction to exploit-db.

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Remotely Access Kali Terminal Using Putty

In this post we will use PuTTy to remotely or locally access Kali terminal with root priveleges. We will use SSH for this tutorial, though you can use Telnet or any other mode too.

Putty

Some theoretical inforamtion about putty for your digestion.

PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers. (putty.org)

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