Get a FREE Smartphone in India easily

First of all I want to say that most of you might think that this is nothing more than a hoax but you are wrong as this is a scheme run by UP government to distribute a smartphone to anyone who registers on their site.

Top 3 addictive Android games around 25 MBs

In our busy lives we daily need something by which we can relax for sometime or challenge our mind and put it somewhere else. For that we use games, Facebook, whatsapp, etc..

What is hacking ?

The purpose for all of us being here is to learn Hacking.
So, what is hacking ?

There may be many different and interesting answers to this question.
Here, we'll try to see hacking from point of view of people in different mindsets.

What is robots.txt and how to take it's advanvtage ?

There are some pages on the website which are not shown to the end user. Those pages may be a login page to the intranet or the content management system (CMS). Those pages can be easily found in a text file called robots.txt which is present on the web server of most of the websites.

Using DirBuster to find files and Folders in a Website

While pentesting a website we want to go through all the pages in it so that the most obvious vulnerabilities may not be left behind and someone else reports it before us to earn the credit. Going through all the pages manually and then testing them can be a tedious process and also unrewarding which demotivates us and we all know that 

persistence comes first while hacking. Thus, to keep us motivated and leave this boring task of browsing the pages to be done automatically we use DirBuster.

Reconnaissance using Nmap

The stage which comes before starting hacking or real examining is Reconnaissance.
Reconnaissance means gathering all the information related to that website like what ports are running, what technology is being used, on which OS the website is running, etc.

The tool about which we are going to learn today is called Nmap. I use Nmap mostly just 

7 Most useful addons for Hackers

In most of the time when we are security testing a website, it will be better if we are as loaded as we can be. So, having cool and very useful addons in our browser is a must.
We always want to make the testing process easy by installing different tools in the browser so that we don't have to go to different places or even OS to make small amendments in the pages of concern and test it immediately.

Installing Kali Linux as a Virtual Machine

As we even think about hacking at some point of time in our life, the operating system which comes in our mind is Linux. Kali Linux is called the OS for hackers, mostly because it comes packed with so many pre-installed tools that come in handy whether it's in the information gathering stage or the exploitation stage.