BackBox Linux – The distro for pentesters.

Today i’m gonna talk about BackBox Linux, which sponsored dSploit project since the beginning with its wonderful community.

BackBox Linux Logo

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable version of the most used and best known ethical hacking tools.

Then you might ask, “why should i use it instead of other distros?” Here some of BackBox keyfeatures.

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Presenting EmotiCODE, a collaborative source code snippets aggregator!

emoticodeI’d like to introduce you another project of mine, a website called EmotiCODE :)

EmotiCODE is a collaborative source code snippets aggregator and search engine but mostly a place where developers can find the answers they are searching for and contribute with their own contents to help others with the same needs.

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dSploit Internals and ARP Cache Poisoning

Here it is the second post about dSploit internals, we we’ll discover how dSploit actually can intercept and manipulate traffic which was not originally supposed to receive, thanks to what we will refer as ARP cache poisoning.

The content of this article is taken from “Understanding Man-in-the-Middle Attacks – ARP Cache Poisoning” by windowsecurity.com.

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How dSploit network discovery works

I’m going to start this section of this blog explaining how every module of dSploit works at low level, both to give users an idea on what they are actually doing and to produce ( hopefully ) some interesting material about network security and generally speaking networking basic principles.

Hence let’s start from the beginnig, how dSploit discovers alive hosts on the network :)

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dSploit is Back!

Hi guys, after more than four months from the last release of dSploit, i’ve decided to open this blog and continuing dSploit developing.

I’d like to say to all of you guys that I’m sorry for this pause period, but as someone already knows, i’ve recently switched to a new job which is very time taking ( and exciting of course! ) therefore i hadn’t any free time to work on my projects.

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