5 papers
WiFiPenTester: Advancing Wireless Ethical Hacking with Governed GenAI
Haitham S. Al-Sinani, Chris J. Mitchell
Wireless ethical hacking relies heavily on skilled practitioners manually interpreting reconnaissance results and executing complex, time-sensitive sequences of commands to identif…
PenTest2.0: Towards Autonomous Privilege Escalation Using GenAI
Haitham S. Al-Sinani, Chris J. Mitchell
Ethical hacking today relies on highly skilled practitioners executing complex sequences of commands, which is inherently time-consuming, difficult to scale, and prone to human err…
From Content Creation to Citation Inflation: A GenAI Case Study
Haitham S. Al-Sinani, Chris J. Mitchell
This paper investigates the presence and impact of questionable, AI-generated academic papers on widely used preprint repositories, with a focus on their role in citation manipulat…
PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation
Haitham S. Al-Sinani, Chris J. Mitchell
Traditional ethical hacking relies on skilled professionals and time-intensive command management, which limits its scalability and efficiency. To address these challenges, we intr…
AI-Augmented Ethical Hacking: A Practical Examination of Manual Exploitation and Privilege Escalation in Linux Environments
Haitham S. Al-Sinani, Chris J. Mitchell
This study explores the application of generative AI (GenAI) within manual exploitation and privilege escalation tasks in Linux-based penetration testing environments, two areas cr…