Week 4 Reading Summary, Question, and recent Cyber Security News…
- Summarize one key point from each assigned reading…
The Metasploit Framework (MSF) included within the Kali Linux setup for security professionals features an additional array of commercial grade exploits & an extensive exploit development environment for following additional cyber security activities: recon, MSF extended usage (Karmetasploit [for beginning wireless attacks], MSF vs OS X [Mac HW camera exploit & info gathering via photos]), and Metasploit GUI environment (Armitage GUI front-end to the Metasploit Framework [simplified GUI for MSF vs MSF terminal interface]), etc.
- Question to classmates (facilitates discussion) from assigned reading…
Question: Regarding the additional Metasploit GUI vs MSF terminal interface, which user interface do you think would be more widely used?
*Answer: My answer… Maybe for Metasploit beginners, the MSF GUI would be much more used. How about your answer…?
Identify, read, and post to our blog a current event article regarding ethical hacking & penetration testing (follow theme topic of the week, or other interesting related article)…
In the Cyber Security News lately…
Companies look beyond firewalls in cyber battle with hackers (as reported by Reuters 1/26/2016)…
“With firewalls no longer seen as enough of a defense against security breaches, companies are looking at new tools to foil hackers trying to enter a computer network. U.S. and Israeli startups are leading the way, with new approaches such as ‘honeytraps’ that lure a hacker to fake data or ‘polymorphic’ deception technology that constantly changes the structure of applications running on a computer”…
www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-tech-cyber-idUSKCN0V422D
*NOTE: In order to continue to avoid detection by advanced systems, MSFvenon with “Shikata Ga Nai” encoder (creates unique obfuscated payloads) from within Metasploit Framework could be employed too.
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