Archives for September 2022

Netcat is an application that supports reading from and writing to network connections using raw TCP and UDP packets. Unlike packets that are organized by services such as Telnet or FTP, Netcat’s packets are not accompanied by headers or other channel information specific to the service. This simplifies communications and allows for an almost universal […]

sox is the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation, which is held in the package of the same name. Once installed, we can take a look at its man pages, where it is made clear that it can not only play an audio file, but it can also manipulate it! Here are the lines of […]

The hierarchical File System (HFS) was created by Apple for use on its Mac OS devices. It can be used on partitions as well as optical media. As of Mac OS X v10.6, HFS filesystems are read-only and cannot be created or updated. On Linux, HFS filesystems are read-only. HFS+ is an extended HFS version […]

Dsniff is one of the most comprehensive and powerful freely-available packet-sniffing tool suites for capturing and processing authentication information. Its functionality and numerous utilities have made it a common tool used by attackers to sniff passwords and authentication information off networks. A network switch doesn’t foward packets to everyone in the network the same way […]

DNS spoofing is an attack in which the person carrying out the MITM attack uses it to change the name resolution in the DNS server’s response to the victim, sending them to a malicious page instead of to the one they requested while still using the legitimate name. dnsspoof command is part of the dsniff […]