Hacking

Metasploit 101

Metasploit 101 This post is a quick run down of a talk that I gave at my local information security meetup to introduce the Metasploit Framework to those that have not used it before. Introduction So what is Metasploit? Metasploit is an exploitation framework with a collection of tools to help develop exploits and use them. It was created in 2003 by H D More. The Metasploit project was purchased by Rapid7 in 2009.

Hacking the Gibson 0.2 from vulnhub.com

Hacking the Gibson 0.2 from vulnhub.com Introduction In this post I’m doing a walk though of capturing the flag of a machine from Vulnhub. The target machine is Gibson which is a fun boot2root/CTF. Initial Recon nmap I always like to start my recon with the following nmap command. nmap -sS -sU -T4 -A -v 172.16.1.134 this netted the result of: Website Seeing that port 80 is open I point my web browser at http://172.16.1.134 to have a peek at the initial page.