Brian Michael Connelly

Assigned readings:

Metasploit extended usage includes various capabilities, such as Mimikatz, a user friendly metepreter script composed of various tasks that attackers will want to perform on the initial […]

Assigned readings:

Metasploit Unleashed allows various functions, such as the abilities to conduct MSF Post Exploitation,
Meterpreter Scripting, and Maintaining Access. MSF Post Exploitation allows the user to […]

Assigned readings:

The Metasploit Unleashed (MSFU) is an open source penetration tool. This ethical training course also has the objective to provide security awareness for the underprivileged children in East […]

Reading Summary: Evasion

Organizations mostly use firewalls and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to protect its network infrastructure. IPS is as an evasion technique used to detect any security attacks. […]

Reading Summary: Web Services

Web services is a tactic used to improve productivity in terms of increasing the speed and quality of information flow, as well as to make it easier for producers and consumers of […]

Freshmen students who entered the Fox School after 2008 must take the FOXCLT. Transfer students who are in the core-to-core curriculum or transferred with 45+ credit hours are strongly advised. If you are […]

Reading Summary: SQL Injection

SQL injection is one of the most common vulnerabilities in web applications and that is why it is very crucial to test for vulnerabilities when one creates a website since it […]

Reading Summary: Web Application Hacking

Web application hacking is very common through client-submission of unexpected inputs. Knowing how to leverage such vulnerabilities is very important and yet challenging […]

Reading Summary: Malware

Malware infection is becoming very popular nowadays, ranging from Trojans, Backdoors, Zero-Days, Virus, Worms, and Polymorphic malware. Each organization has its way of handling such an […]

Reading Summary: Social Engineering

Social Engineering has become a powerful hacker technique that most organizations still ignore, if not, underestimate its true impact. This technique takes into advantage the […]

Reading Summary: NetCat

NetCat is a tool built by Hobbit and made available in a Windows platform by Weld Pond.  It is recommended to test the firewall and router configurations in a test environment and not […]

Reading Summary:

Packet sniffing can exists in a switched or non-switched environment. Packet sniffing usually arises from an internal threat and it is shares the same concept as the man-in-the-middle attack […]

Reading Summary: Enumeration and Footprinting

The Enumeration process identifies valid user accounts or any weak component/resource. Some of the key areas of information include user and groups, network […]

Reading Summary:

The enterprise often contains firewalls and an intrusion detection system (IDS) to keep the organization secure. However, that is not enough to detect vulnerabilities or web attacks on an […]

Week 3 Reading Summary Takeaways:

In the world of hacking, attackers start with reconnaissance process which has the objective to collect intelligence about the target. This is often accomplished through port […]