🛡️ Penetration Testing
Hands-on tutorials for standard penetration-testing tools — network scanning, traffic analysis, and exploitation frameworks, for authorized, legal use only.
Step-by-Step: Monitoring Wi-Fi Networks and Capturing a Handshake with airodump-ng
How do you survey and monitor nearby Wi-Fi networks, and actually test your own Wi-Fi password's strength? A guide to airodump-ng from the aircrack-ng suite.
8 min readStep-by-Step: Scanning Networks and Discovering Open Ports with Nmap
The first tool every pentester learns is Nmap — a complete guide to network scanning, service and OS detection, with real commands.
8 min readStep-by-Step: Crafting Custom Packets and Testing Firewall Rules with hping3
When a regular ping doesn't give you enough answers, hping3 comes in — a guide to crafting custom TCP packets to see how a firewall actually behaves.
7 min readStep-by-Step: Capturing and Analyzing Network Traffic with Wireshark
What exactly is flowing across your network cable, right now? A complete guide to capturing, filtering, and analyzing packets with Wireshark.
7 min readIntroduction to the Metasploit Framework: Structure and First Practical Steps
How does the world's most popular penetration-testing framework actually work? An introduction to msfconsole, modules, and running your first scan in a lab environment.
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