Building your own OS distributions is a favorite pastime among Linux enthusiasts. It’s often assumed that Windows users don’t get to enjoy anything similar. Not quite: there are ways to strip unnecessary components from a Windows 10…
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Privacy Showdown: Comparing the Most Secure Browsers
Web browsers collect a lot of data about users and track their activity online. To counter that, there are dedicated privacy browsers built to protect your privacy and block tracking and ads. Today we’ll review and compare…
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Beyond Packet Sniffers: How to Choose the Right Tool for…
There’s a lot of interesting stuff to be found in network packets. To capture and analyze traffic, we use packet sniffers—and there are plenty to choose from. Today, we’ll look at the most popular sniffers for Windows.
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Building a Pwnagotchi: Creating an AI-Powered Hacking Device
Readers of "Хакер" have likely wondered at least once: is it possible to build an inexpensive device that can hack something with the push of a button? Or even without a button, on its own, automatically? Yes,…
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Linux in 30 minutes. A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing and…
It doesn’t matter which operating system you prefer to have on your desktop, Linux is literally everywhere today: on servers, on hardware like Raspberry Pi, on smart devices, on computers in government institutions… Well, even in Windows, you can now run LinuxLinux to make it easier, for…
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Obliterating traces: How to make Windows 10 forget everything
Cookies, browsing history, saved passwords, and data from the Windows Registry – all this information can be easily retrieved by a person who gets physical access to your PC. That’s why every hacker must know how to delete logs, caches, and other cookies to protect…
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Pentester’s suitcase: Identifying OS on remote host
As you are aware, any penetration test starts from information collection. You have to find out what operating system is running on the remote host, and only then you can start looking for vulnerabilities in it. This…
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