Penetration tools – etherape

Etherape is graphical network traffic browser. It uses gnome library for displaying graphical network activity. Node and link color shows the most used protocol. The more busy a node is, the bigger its representation. For packet capture and filtering, it uses libpcap. The etherape webpage is at http://etherape.sourceforge.net/. Etherape only can see the traffic physically [...]

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IP and Port scanning using ‘nmap (Network Mapper)’ in Ubuntu

nmap is a powerfull scanner available in Unix/Linux system. It’s very usefull for network exploration and security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine againts single hosts. It’s very easy to install nmap in Ubuntu, just download from the internet. taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo apt-get install nmap   In this practice, [...]

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FTP Server

What is FTP? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a program to exchange files between two computers or to other computers in a local network or over inter networks (internet). May be you don’t know that you’ve already used it before when you download something from the internet. Most often, a computer with a FTP address [...]

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IP address

Every house or office is recognized by postal address. When you send a postcard to someone, just write down the address and it will delivered by postman. It is the same with a machine. It has a unique address called IP address (Internet Protocol) address. When your machine send data to other machine, it will [...]

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Configure Ubuntu for Networking

Setup ip address and gateway via console You can setup the ip address and ip gateway through Ubuntu Console. But, this is for temporary. If you unplug your LAN cable then you have to configure it out again. Although, it’s easy if you setup via System > Administration > Network menu, I always do this [...]

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Firestarter in Ubuntu

Forget about typing firewall commands in linux bash. Firestarter is a modern linux firewall. You can have a firewall and running it in minutes. A firestarter 1.0 package is now available for Debian mean you can download it for Ubuntu. Before you start to install it, make sure to enable the ‘universe’ respository in the [...]

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