TECHNOPHILE
Technophile, meaning a person who is enthusiastic about new technology. He tries to get to know technical stuffs and most of the end up at nowhere. Here I am. I get locked off at many places while learning things. And I will post all of them here. If any of them are useful to any of you, I am more than happy.
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Kali/Ubuntu stuck at blank screen; No icons, unity or gnome : Fixed
I have been using an older version of Kali Linux. I used to update occasionally. Since the distro had lot of improvements in the past couple of years, I decided to go for…
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Penetration Testing for dummies – Part 1: The history of Internet
Buenos días Internet! Since the last couple of months, I was getting queries via my Facebook page asking me to teach Penetration Testing. People want to learn hacking and break something out of…
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How I moved my WordPress blog from $12/month aws cloud to $15/year namecheap hosting with Free SSL by Let’s Encrypt
I have been using Free Amazon EC2 instance provided by AWS for hosting. AWS provides free t2.micro EC2 instance for the first year if you signup and and add a payment information. You can…
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Penetration Testing of Android apps: Top 10 tools
Mobile applications have started gaining more popularity than the native web application because of many reasons. Say for example, ease of usage. Less memory usage, portability, etc. As the Android OS became more…
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Kali & Whonix: Perfect shadow for bug hunters and pen-testers
We all might have conscious about privacy. When I say privacy, I mean internet privacy. And when you think about privacy, the first thing that comes to most of our mind would be…
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Why Burp Suite is the best proxy tool
This post is totally personal and not intended to make a comparison between proxy tools, moreover no intention of promoting a brand or company. I used burp for almost all my projects for…
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SSL/TLS for dummies part 4 – Understanding the TLS Handshake Protocol
In the 3rd part of the blog series Certificate Authorities were discussed in depth. If anyone is here without reading that post I highly recommend to read that. In this post the whole…
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SSL/TLS for dummies part 3 – Understanding Certificate Authority
In the second part of the series we have discussed about the SSL/TLS Key exchange in terms of Diffie Hellman algorithm. We ended up thinking the need of a third person who could…
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SSL/TLS for dummies part 2 – Understanding key exchange algorithm
In the last part of the blog series we have discussed about the basic concepts of cryptography. It includes Hashing, Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption and so on. I haven’t spoken anything about SSL…
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SSL/TLS for dummies part 1 : Ciphersuite, Hashing,Encryption
As a security enthusiast, I always fond of the working of SSL (TLS these days). It took me days to understand the very basic working of this complex protocol. But once you understand the…