{"id":5535,"date":"2018-09-17T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2018-09-17T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T18:59:58","slug":"why-is-ruby-relevant-to-what-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/09\/17\/why-is-ruby-relevant-to-what-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ruby relevant to what we do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself curious about why Ruby was so relevant to penetration testing and hacking in general and was fortunate enough to find this article on Null Byte.<\/p>\n<p>First, some of the most popular exploitation frameworks are written in Ruby, such as Metasploit:\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/rapid7\/metasploit-framework<\/p>\n<p>In the article below, you can use one line of Ruby code in the command line to do things such as dump passwords saved in the attacked computer&#8217;s web browser. This requires first hiding Ruby payloads in a PDF file which execute in the background (unbeknownst to the user) after the PDF is opened.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of other &#8220;how to&#8221; links in this article that take you further into the &#8220;how&#8221; of a procedure like this.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/null-byte.wonderhowto.com\/how-to\/hacking-macos-hack-macbook-with-one-ruby-command-0186686\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself curious about why Ruby was so relevant to penetration testing and hacking in general and was fortunate enough to find this article on Null Byte. First, some of the most popular exploitation frameworks are written in Ruby, such as Metasploit:\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/rapid7\/metasploit-framework In the article below, you can use one line of Ruby code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715219],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-03-it-administrative-controls","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5536,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}