The Registry has been a part of Windows since Windows 3.1. Simply put, it's a database that stores Windows and programme settings. Some of those settings are quite complex and aren't meant for humans ...

Active Directory lies at the heart of most organisations' networks. PowerShell is a versatile Scripting Language that Windows natively support. We can leverage PowerShell to enumerate Active Directory...

List of IIS Web Servers, their associated operating system version releases, the corresponding launch dates and end of support dates. These can be useful for fingerprinting Window Servers when you fin...

This article looks at the command syntax of two SQL Injection tools, SQLmap, and SQLninja. Bernardo Damele and Miroslav Stampar developed SQLmap, and it is an actively maintained and powerful comm...

This article looks at Netcat, a valuable tool in the pentesters toolbox. Hobbit released the original Netcat in 1995, but it hasn’t been maintained despite its popularity. It can sometimes be hard to ...

A significant part of our job when searching around a target system is to look for interesting files. Whether we have a need to look for SSH keys, Bash History files or database backups the commands ...

Dsquery is a command-line tool that is built into Windows Server 2008. It is available if you have the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) server role installed. It allows you to find any objects...

AWS EFS (NFS file system); Quick Security Hardening Guide - This acts as a Quick Checklist to configuring your AWS EFS securely. This is Amazon’s implementation of the network file system or NFS proto...

In today's article, we will look at Socat. Socat is a network utility similar to Netcat. Socat supports IPv6 and SSL and is available for both Windows and Linux. The first thing you will notice with t...

A look at various commands that can be used for configuring Linux network connectivity....