MistressVenom
MistressVenom loves to eat logs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and as an awesome 2 AM snack. Let her show you how to analyze logs like a pro, using four of the tastiest methods: manually, Excel, command line, and Splunk!
Tag: Command-line Tools
Taking Password Cracking to the Next Level
Aaron James
When CrackStation, hashcat, and the infamous rockyou.txt wordlist aren't cracking those harder passwords, Aaron James shows you where he turns next in this advanced tour of password cracking tools and tricks.
NCL and WSL: Leaving the Kali VM Behind
Aaron James
Working in a virtual machine is a sub-optimal experience. What if we told you there's a way to run the Kali Linux terminal natively inside of Windows? Aaron James demonstrates how to install and compete using command-line tools on Windows Subsystem for Linux—no clunky VM required!
Writing Elegant Regular Expressions
Paul Buonopane
What does elegant regex look like? When shouldn't you use it to parse a log? Did you know that it can crash some devices? Paul Buonopane reformats 7,326 phone numbers, then shows you how to take your regex to the next level, all before lunch!
Summer Camp 2020: Web Application Exploitation
Aaron James
Aaron James walks us through how he would solve the Summer Camp 2020 – Web Application Exploitation challenge: Black Mesa.
Summer Camp 2020 – Password Cracking
Hush1e
Hush1e takes a break from drinking coffee and imperiling mailboxes to walk us through how she would solve the Summer Camp 2020 – Password Cracking challenge: Cracking for Coffee.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Steganography Tricks and Tips
John "Mako" McGill
Who uses bitmap images anymore? Data smugglers, primarily! You're instantly suspicious that there's more to a file than meets the eye, but how can you uncover its secrets? Mako exposes the etymology, purpose, tricks, and tools of steganography and recommends additional means of practice.
Beginner Tips and Tricks for NCL Wireless Access Exploitation (Now Part of Network Traffic Analysis)
MistressVenom
You've installed your Kali VM and have a packet capture from NCL. Wireshark revealed the network ESSID and victim and attacker MAC addresses, but where is that wireless password? MistressVenom shows you how to run aircrack-ng—in style.
Secret Information in Network Traffic Logs: NTA for NCL
Paul Buonopane
Improving your Network Traffic Analysis techniques can mean the difference between spending hours on a challenge and solving it in 5 minutes. Paul Buonopane demonstrates how to filter large packet captures in Wireshark and reassemble fragmented files from packet data.
Sharpening the Axe: How to Cut and Carve Logs in the NCL
John "Mako" McGill
Parsing log files is an art form, not unlike sculpting—"cut away all the parts of the wood block that are not the bear." In place of an axe and knife, Mako shows us how to whittle the bear from the log using grep, regex, awk, sed, uniq, sort, and pipe!
