In this tutorial I’ll present the steps I took to set up Pure-FTPd on a Backtrack system. There might be slight differences for other distributions, particularly where file names and locations are concerned.

Today I will walk through different ways of exploiting Metasploitable 2, the newer release of Rapid7’s popular vulnerable machine. First, what is Metasploitable?

In this tutorial I will cover some of the uses of netcat, known as the “TCP/IP Swiss army knife”. Netcat is a very powerful and versatile tool that can be used in diagnosing network problems or in penetration testing.

The Linux directory tree can be a bit daunting, to say the least, for those coming from Windows backgrounds and accustomed to visiting only Documents and Program Files directories. So I thought about summarizing the important directories in the filesystem hierarchy. Here it goes.

Since I now got the blog up and running, I want to walk through the steps of setting it up and where I had to do some extra work not mentioned in the official documentation, which by the way, is a good place to start reading about Octopress.

This blog will serve as my notebook for my infosec learning adventures. Hopefully, it will benefit other learners as well. I am just migrating from my small Blogger blog, because Octopress is so awesome. And it’s “a blogging framework for hackers” of course! That definitely got my attention.

In this post I’d like to share some of the resources I’ve found most helpful with any interested readers out there. I will update it as I find more.