The netcat tool is quite popular among network administrators. However, it can also serve different purposes for you as a casual Linux user in your day-to-day life. While doing some research, I’ve found some great use cases to play with the nc command.
Category: Cyber Practice
Sniffnet: comfortably monitor your Internet traffic
Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool to help you easily keep track of your Internet traffic.
GoSearch: Open-source OSINT tool for uncovering digital footprints – Help Net Security
GoSearch incorporates data from Hudson Rock’s Cybercrime Database, offering detailed insights into potential cybercrime connections. It also draws from BreachDirectory.org and ProxyNova databases, providing extensive access to breached data, including plain-text and hashed passwords associated with usernames. For investigators who need reliable results without unnecessary complexity, GoSearch fits the bill.
Misconfig Mapper: Open-source tool to uncover security misconfigurations – Help Net Security
Misconfig Mapper is an open-source CLI tool built in Golang that discovers and enumerates instances of services used within your organization. It performs large-scale detection and misconfiguration assessments, leveraging customizable templates with detection and misconfiguration fingerprints to identify potential security risks in widely used third-party software and services.
OSINT Framework
Here is a useful collection of OSINT tools for CTFs and PenTesting. http://eastalcyber.com/MiscApps/CTF/osint/
Top 10 Open-Source Intelligence Tools (OSINT)
OSINT tools help access, collate, and organize relevant data based on queries within the various tools. Organizations wanting to develop an OSINT practice should consider what approach they should take when leveraging these tools.
How To Use Steghide And StegoSuite Steganography Tools In Kali Linux – GeeksforGeeks
This guide will teach beginners how to use two popular steganography tools in Kali Linux – Steghide and StegoSuite. You’ll learn how to hide and extract secret data with these tools. Steganography is relevant today for securely transmitting information over monitored networks.
Free Self-Paced Courses from the Cisco Networking Academy
This introductory course takes you inside the world of cybersecurity. You will learn cybersecurity basics to protect your personal digital life and gain insights into the biggest security challenges companies, governments, and educational institutions face today. Cybersecurity professionals who can protect and defend an organization’s network are in high demand.