By Israel Torres, a hacker at large with interests in the hacking realm and an author of crypto challenge: http://hakin9.israeltorres.org Tools when understood are quite helpful in saving time. This tutorial goes over using a few homebrew tools to help validate old and new algorithms. This both helps find strengths and flaws in your own [...]

By Israel Torres, a hacker at large with interests in the hacking realm and an author of crypto challenge: http://hakin9.israeltorres.org In this third installment of CryptoTutorials we will introduce the concept of using a pseudo-random key system as an encryption mechanism.  Included is a basic exercise that uses the C programming language (and source file) [...]

By Israel Torres, a hacker at large with interests in the hacking realm and an author of crypto challenge: http://hakin9.israeltorres.org   PART 2 Cryptography Fundamentals: You can’t hide what isn’t there As previously discussed in part 1 of this series communication can exist between one or more entities without ever making their existence known even [...]

By Israel Torres, a hacker at large with interests in the hacking realm and an author of crypto challenge: http://hakin9.israeltorres.org CryptoTutorials is a new Hakin9 multi-part series focusing on the aspects cryptology, cryptography, cryptanalysis and steganography. Each short and easy to digest tutorial will cover ideas, concepts and implementation from known cryptographic history to covert [...]

By: Wayne Burke, Master EC-Council Trainer and CAST Author for Digital Mobile Forensics Welcome back to the monthly CAST Tutorial Series. Last month we looked the foundation of Information gathering also known as reconnaissance, and as promised we will start this first in the 3 part series of Wi-Fi hacking and cracking. We will start [...]

By: Wayne Burke, Master EC-Council Trainer and CAST Author for Digital Mobile Forensics Welcome to the monthly Hakin9 CAST Tutorial Series. Last month we looked at installing Metasploit and SET on your Apple iDevice. This month we will begin to dive into the CEH exam objectives for the newly released CEHv7 exam, and more specifically [...]

By: Wayne Burke, Master EC-Council Trainer and CAST Author for Digital Mobile Forensics Welcome to the monthly CAST Tutorial Series. We will kick this first tutorial off with installing Metasploit and SET on your Apple iDevice, two very powerful open source Hacking tools that every Security Professional loves. The sheer growth and popularity of iPads, [...]