Wednesday, July 9, 2014

How Hackers Steal your Passwords

In my previous post entitled " BackTrack - Advanced Penetration Tools for I.T Pro ", I showed in detailed the threat of how black hat hackers steal WiFi Password and also gave some tips in order to avoid of being compromised. Also I mentioned in my post entitled " How to protect your  Sensitive Account Info of getting HACKED- Phishing Method ( Part 1 ), of how a hacker clever technique of using identical website to trap a user to gather useful sensitive account credentials. Now in this post I'll show you how hackers steal your social account password like Facebook, Twitter and other social site account, your email or even your banking account online log-in credentials. Some of you were experienced this kind of threat where you cannot access your email, social account or there is a transaction in your banking or online money processor like Paypal that you didn't know or remember that you actually did the transaction. Nowadays black hat hackers are very very clever, so what should we do in order to safeguard our privacy while we are on the Internet ?. Let's first know of how this threat actually happened in real world. Sometimes a reader might going to believe if they see the real threat in detail before they actually believe that it's really existing. So Let's move on and make some experiment.


Thursday, July 3, 2014

BackTrack - Advanced Penetration Testing Tools for I.T Pro

     
As an I.T enthusiast whether it may be a geek, techy or whatever they call an I.T person, it's a must that we understand and know the possible threat that lies ahead in our Computer and our Network System, especially for PC - Network Administrator who are given an important task to manage and secure the PC-Network premises. As such, local and remote threats must be mitigate for the overall productivity. As Lao Tzu said " In order for you to know your enemy, You must become your enemy." This explain that we must know the footprints of our enemy and know their moves, for us to know the task of securing our PC and Network. Right knowledge and Right tools must become handy and aid us in this aspect of performing security threat mitigation. Although there are many tools, one can start for not paying much just to have a great penetration tools. One powerful tool is BackTrack- a free Penetration tools developed under Linux kernel system. In this post I will show you how to perform a penetration testing in Wi-Fi, as this technology is susceptible to many kind of attacks. So Lets move on....