Wordlists are text files containing a sequence of commonly used words. This can be lists of common user names, passwords, web site directories, typical files on a web site, etc. You will mostly use wordlists for fuzzing purposes (enumerating web directories and files), using tools such as Dirb, FFUF or Burp Suite. You will...
What is fuzzing?
Fuzzing is a method for testing web sites or the input fields of software programs. Software developers use fuzzing to test their programs by sending strings of characters (generally unusual strings of characters) into their programs’ input streams to see if any of that will cause memory leaks, errors or crashes. A hacker will...
What is Nmap?
Nmap is a command line network recon tool that is very likely to become your preferred hacking buddy when you need to probe and map out a local or remote network. It’s available for Linux (if you’re using Kali Linux, you’ll find it pre-installed), Mac OS X and Windows (see here for installation details)....
What is a ping sweep?
A ping sweep is when you ping a range of IP addresses to check which ones are responding. A ping sweep is usually one of the first things you want to do when you are connected to a network you want to know more about. One of my favorite command line tools to do...