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What Is a VLAN? — Splitting One Switch Logically at Layer 2

A VLAN (Virtual LAN) logically divides one physical switch / one physical network into several indep...

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What Is NAT? — Translating Private IPs to a Public IP, and Port Forwarding

NAT (Network Address Translation) rewrites IP addresses as packets cross a border router. The reason...

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SPF Explained — Stopping Email Spoofing by Sender IP

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) lets a domain owner declare, in a DNS TXT record, which server IPs are...

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What Is DHCP? — The DORA Flow That Hands Out IP Addresses Automatically

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) automatically assigns an IP address, subnet mask, default...

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What Is ARP? — Resolving a MAC Address from an IP Address

ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) is the foundational IPv4 protocol that asks, on a local network, '...

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WiFiPumpkin3 Explained — A Rogue AP (Evil Twin) Attack Framework

WiFiPumpkin3 is a Python 3 rogue access point / Wi-Fi MITM framework developed by the P0cL4bs team (...

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RustScan Explained — A Blazing-Fast Port Scanner in Rust with nmap Hand-off

RustScan is a blazing-fast port scanner written in Rust by Autumn "bee-san" Skerritt and the RustSca...

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The Michael Shutdown Attack — A Wi-Fi DoS That Weaponizes TKIP's Own Defense

The Michael shutdown attack (the TKIP MIC countermeasure attack) is a DoS that weaponizes the very d...

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LinPEAS Explained — A Script That Auto-Enumerates Linux Privilege-Escalation Vectors

LinPEAS (Linux Privilege Escalation Awesome Script) is a shell script from Carlos Polop's PEASS-ng p...

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EyeWitness Explained — Automating Mass Web-Host Screenshots for Recon Triage

EyeWitness is a recon / triage tool by Christopher Truncer (FortyNorth Security). When nmap or rusts...

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Evil Twin Attack Explained — How a Rogue AP Impersonates a Network with the Same SSID, and How to Defend

An Evil Twin attack stands up a rogue access point that impersonates a legitimate AP by broadcasting...

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aireplay-ng Explained — The Packet-Injection Tool of the aircrack-ng Suite

aireplay-ng is the packet-injection tool at the core of the aircrack-ng suite. It has two jobs: gene...

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wfuzz Explained — A Flexible Web Fuzzer Written in Python

wfuzz is a Python-based web fuzzer developed primarily by Xavier Mendez (@xmendez) — the ancestor of...

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SQLMap Explained — The Go-To Tool for Automating SQL Injection Detection and Exploitation

SQLMap is an open-source Python tool by Bernardo Damele A.G. and Miroslav Stampar that automates det...

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wifite Explained — Automating Wireless Attacks End to End

wifite (wifite2) is a Python-based Wi-Fi auditing tool that orchestrates the aircrack-ng suite, reav...

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ffuf Explained — A Fast Web Fuzzer Written in Go

ffuf (Fuzz Faster U Fool) is a fast Go-based web fuzzer released by Joona Hoikkala in 2018. It subst...

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SQL Injection Explained — How It Works, Common Attack Techniques, and Defenses

SQL injection (SQLi) is a long-standing vulnerability where user input is concatenated directly into...

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CSRF Explained — How Cross-Site Request Forgery Works and How to Defend Against It

CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) is a vulnerability where the victim, while logged in to a target s...

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Wireshark Explained — The Standard Tool for Packet Capture and Analysis

Wireshark is the world's most widely used network analyzer — it captures packets straight off the wi...

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LFI/RFI Explained — How Local/Remote File Inclusion Works, Attack Techniques, and Defenses

LFI (Local File Inclusion) and RFI (Remote File Inclusion) occur when a web application takes a file...

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HTTP Security Headers — A Second Line of Defense That Tells the Browser How to Defend Itself

HTTP security headers are response headers the server uses to control browser behavior, blocking bro...

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SSRF Explained — How Server-Side Request Forgery Works, Attack Techniques, and Defenses

SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery) is a vulnerability where the web application's server fetches an...

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Nmap Explained — Port Scanning, Service Detection, and OS Fingerprinting

Nmap (Network Mapper) is an open-source scanner for discovering hosts and services on a network. Rel...

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XSS Explained — How Cross-Site Scripting Works and How to Defend Against It

Cross-site scripting (XSS) injects malicious script into a web application so that it runs inside an...

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Deauthentication Attack — How Wi-Fi Disconnect Attacks Work and How PMF Stops Them

A Deauthentication Attack spoofs the IEEE 802.11 Deauthentication management frame (Subtype 0x0C) to...

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Ghidra — How NSA's Open-Source Reverse Engineering Suite Works

Ghidra is the reverse-engineering suite the NSA used internally and then released as OSS under Apach...

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Firewalls Explained — Five Generations, Stateful, NGFW / WAF / Cloud SGs

A firewall is an access-control device that drops any traffic that doesn't match a defined rule. Sta...

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ASM Explained — Attack Surface Management / EASM, CAASM, DRPS

ASM (Attack Surface Management) is the security discipline of discovering every entry point an attac...

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Ransomware — How It Works, Notable Incidents, and How to Defend

Ransomware is malware that 'encrypts files and demands a ransom for the decryption key'. Its ancesto...

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Trojan Horse Explained — Types, Delivery Vectors, and Defenses

A Trojan horse is malware that disguises itself as legitimate software so the user installs it thems...

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DDoS Explained — Mechanics, Categories, and Defenses

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is the attack of burying a target under legitimate-looking requ...

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Buffer Overflow Explained — Stack Mechanics, Exploits, and Mitigations

Buffer overflow — writing past the end of an allocated buffer and corrupting adjacent memory — is th...

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Kali Linux — The Pentest Distribution: Its Tools and How to Use Them

Kali Linux is the Debian-based 'attacker-optimised' Linux distribution maintained by Offensive Secur...

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Linux Explained — Architecture, Commands, and Major Distributions

Strictly speaking, 'Linux' refers only to the kernel; what we use day-to-day is a stack of Linus's k...

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Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) Explained — Standards, Bands, and WPA

Wi-Fi shares Ethernet's frame format but rides on radio waves — a shared medium, half-duplex, collis...

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Ethernet Explained — Frame Format, MAC Addresses, and Switching

Ethernet is the L2 protocol that has survived nearly 50 years as the only practical choice for wired...

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IPsec Explained — Tunnel/Transport Modes and the IKE Key Exchange

IPsec is a family of protocols that encrypts and authenticates IP packets themselves at L3 — rather...

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TCP/IP Explained — The 4-Layer Model and TCP vs UDP

TCP/IP names both 'the protocol suite that runs the Internet' and 'the four-layer reference model th...

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VPN Explained — IPsec, OpenVPN, and WireGuard Compared

A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is the umbrella term for virtually stretching an 'encrypted private...

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The OSI Reference Model — Seven Layers and How They Map to TCP/IP

The ISO Basic Reference Model (Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model) is the 1984 internation...

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OSINT — Methods, Tools, and Real-World Examples of Open-Source Investigation

OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) is the umbrella term for the techniques and culture of investigatin...

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SSL/TLS Explained — How HTTPS Encrypts the Web and How Certificates Work

SSL/TLS is the protocol that gives Internet traffic confidentiality, authentication, and tamper-dete...

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IP Addresses Explained — IPv4 / IPv6 / Subnets / Routing

IP (Internet Protocol) handles addressing and packet forwarding at the heart of the TCP/IP stack. Th...

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DNS Explained — How Name Resolution Works and the Record Types

DNS is the distributed database that converts memorable domain names into the IP addresses computers...

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Metasploit Framework — How to Use It for Penetration Testing

Metasploit Framework is the open-source offensive-testing framework launched by HD Moore in 2003 and...

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ICMP Explained — How ping and traceroute Work and What the Message Types Mean

ICMP is the control protocol that signals errors and path conditions on IP networks. This article co...

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SSH — How It Works, Public-Key Authentication, and Essential Commands

SSH is the protocol for operating another computer safely over the network. It replaced cleartext pr...

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HTTP/HTTPS

HTTP/HTTPS is the protocol the World Wide Web uses to move content. This article covers the request/...

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Linux Easy

Easy Linux box. UDP scan reveals SNMP, snmpwalk leaks the running PostgreSQL service, COPY FROM PROG...

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