When you know you’ve been hacked it feels horrible, but what if you don’t even realize an attack on your cyber-homestead has taken place? Unless you can spot a hack when it happens your system could end up playing host to data hidden there by malicious software.

It’s easy to imagine every hacker as a fiercely intelligent individual who launches attacks of such baffling sophistication we are powerless to prevent or repel them. In reality, hackers frequently use the same tried and tested pathways to enter a system and with the right knowledge, you can stop them in their tracks.

Burp Suite is an HTTP intercepting proxy used globally to test the security of web applications. It works by intercepting communication between your server and the target application that you wish to test and is packed full of nifty features such as Spider, Scanner, and Repeater. There are too many great Burp features to cover in one session so today I am just going to show you my five favorites which I use in every penetration test.   

Today we gonna be talking about Nmap Scripting Engine, NSE. Nmap itself is a very interesting tool and can give penetration testers huge amount of information about network and systems connected to it. Nmap Scripting Engine is a powerful tool on top of Nmap, which allows us to automate some things that Nmap is doing during scanning.

It’s your friendly neighborhood Microsoft Security Advisor, back with more tricks to keep your network safe. Despite your best efforts to protect your data, unencrypted network protocols might still be used. We show you how to use IPsec and SMB protection to create a web of protection around your information.