Learn how to crack password-protected ZIP files using John the Ripper on Kali Linux in this step-by-step cybersecurity project. John the Ripper is a powerful and widely used open-source password ...

The script 7z_password_tester.sh automatically tests various passwords from a passwordlist text file, attempting to unzip an encrypted ZIP file using the 7z tool. Before testing, it removes trailing ...

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

In Linux, all password hashes are normally stored using the MD5 hashing algorithm in the /etc/shadow file, but MD5 is algorithmically weak due to collision vulnerabilities. The new recommended ...

A download site surreptitiously served Linux users malware that stole passwords and other sensitive information for more than three years until it finally went quiet, researchers said on Tuesday. The ...

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...