Questions tagged [black-hat]
Black hat hacking is the act of using computer security hacking for illegal means, usually to compromise high value computer systems. It is the opposite of white hat hacking.
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Does black hat always equal illegal? [closed]
I often hear of black-hat hacking discussed as if it was synonymous with illegal hacking. In other words, an act of hacking is black-hat iff it is illegal. Our own tag wiki for black-hat defines it as ...
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Do black hat hackers or even hacktivists use penetration testing tools?
I was reading digital forensics as part of my curriculum and came across some tools used for hacking (ethical hacking aka pentration testing). There is a bunch of tools out there. I was wondering if ...
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What can my ISP see regarding my VPN tunnel? [duplicate]
I use the free version of proton VPN because it has such a nice interface. From my understanding, when I connect to one of their VPNs located in the US, my information passes through an encrypted ...
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how to create random request time delay in sqlmap?
How can i configure sql-map to try payloads at random time delay?
as an example time between first and second request can be 0.10s and second and third might 0.25 and so on.
i know there is --delay ...
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How can an administrator secure against a 0day before patches are available?
I'm working on a thesis about the security hacker community.
When a 0day is published, how can an administrator secure his application/website between the time the 0day is published and the patch is ...
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What reason would you use the decoy scan option for Nmap?
I'm confused as to why you would use the -D option for Nmap. Is there any 'white hat' reason for using it? Or is it used particularly for malicious purposes?
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Is demanding a "donation" before disclosing vulnerabilities black hat behavior? [closed]
We have been contacted by an "independent security researcher" through the Open Bug Bounty project. First communications were quite OK, and he disclosed the vulnerability found. We patched the hole ...
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Do the 'bad guys' create honeypots?
I know companies, governments, and other organizations create honeypots (ex: SQLi pages, Open Access Points, Open Ports, etc.) to lure in the bad guys. Are there any examples of the bad guys creating ...
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I developed a very disruptive program with major implications. What next? [closed]
Long story short and without giving away too many details, I and my business partner came up with an idea for a program. It essentially bypasses the monetization feature of another piece of software ...
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Penetration Testing Methodologies
I have some issues regarding the concept of black, grey and white hat.
Where and in what penetration testing methodology I can find the black, grey or white hat concept definition?
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Why aren't ransomware deployers arrested? [closed]
Why aren't people who use ransomware to extort money from people arrested?
Using ransomware is illegal, presumably.
The idea that Bitcoin is anonymous is a myth.
Given this, it seems like they ...
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OpenPGP smartcards compromised by blackhat 2015 simcard hack?
This blackhat was a new sidechannel attack in the SIM-card AES encryption announced.
I am currently using the OpenPGP smart/SIM-card version 2.1 to store my PGP-private keys, which is the same model ...
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Could someone compare basic anonymity vs basic computer hacker anonymity? [duplicate]
So, let's say one just doesn't want the government/corporations to know what they are doing online. Let's say, for example, that they just don't trust the NSA, FBI, Google, etc.
So what are the steps ...
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Mentioned On A Blog By A "Hacker" - Should I Care?
Some (insert noun here) who seems to be a black hat hacker thinks that I am his #1 enemy and has posted some of my information on his blog. He is mad because I am advertising for others. The ...
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How much are 0-days worth? [closed]
I got discussing this topic with someone recently and we couldn't reach a consensus so I thought I should ask here. There are commonly thrown around figures regarding the cost of buying a remotely-...
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