WWWhack is a brute force utility that will try to crack web sites guarded by an web access password. This utility can use a word file or try all possible combinations, and by trial-and-error, will attempt to find a combination of username/password that is accepted by the web server.
This shows the weakness in securing sensitive [...]
It seems the recent fake login flaw effects both Internet Exploder and Firefox.
Good to keep alert and with the new update mechanism it’s very simple to update your Firefox installation.
The latest versions of both Firefox and Internet Explorer are vulnerable to an unpatched flaw that allows hackers to snaffle users’ login credentials via automated phishing [...]
GoldenEye is a brute-force hacking program and was written for web-masters to test the security of their own sites. This is an oldskool file, a lot of people are still looking for this.
It should not be use by others to hack sites - this would be illegal! Under no circumstances should the author or any [...]
There seems to be have been some slight relaxation on the DMCA regulations lately, which is a good thing for the majority of people!
There have been many grey cases and sadly most have fallen on the side of the big corporations, finally something on our side!
The U.S. Copyright Office specified new rules Wednesday allowing cellphone [...]
TXDNS 2.0.0 has been released.
TXDNS is a Win32 aggressive multithreaded DNS digger. Capable of placing, on the wire, thousands of DNS queries per minute. TXDNS main goal is to expose a domain namespace trough a number of techniques:
Typos
TLD rotation
Dictionary attack
Brute force
This new version features a distributed model which further boosts TXDNS’s parallelism and performance. This [...]
Grab the new Firefox now, 2.0.0.1! 8 Security Vulnerabilities have been fixed in this last release of the year 2006.
I’m glad to see Firefox upholding their quick turnaround and rapid fixing of issues that spring up during development and improvement of their product.
Mozilla has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser to fix [...]
It seems like phishers are changing their tactics to those similar to spammers, rather than going for big targets and mass mails they are turning to more wealthy customers and fewer but larger bounties.
Imagine if they can nail a few big ones, they are set.
Online fraudsters are turning their attentions away from large banks and [...]
It’s been a good year for Darknet since the relaunch in February and I’d like to take this chance to thank you for your readership, with over 2300 RSS subscribers during the week the readership has grown into a solid base.
I’d like to thank you all for reading, commenting and linking to Darknet and supporting [...]
Today while browsing I suddenly came across projectBypass, which is a very useful website which acts as a proxy, and assures us 100% anonymity:
Make ProjectByPass your homepage for 100% secure web surfing! Keep your online activity free from potential attackers.
…of course I have my doubts about this because…
ProjectByPass.com is a FREE Web Based CGI Proxy [...]
A new worm is spreading fast on the Skype network, it’s activated by a malicious Skype Chat link and it has been seen in the wild in numerous places.
Apparently the dangerous link starts with “Check this!” pointing to a .org/.biz address, if you click the link you’ll become infected.
There have been no reports of unpatched [...]
XSS Shell is a powerful XSS backdoor which allows interactively getting control over a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in a web application. Demonstrates the real power and damage of Cross-site Scripting attacks.
WHAT IS XSS SHELL ?
XSS Shell is powerful a XSS backdoor and zombie manager. This concept first presented by XSS-Proxy (http://xss-proxy.sourceforge.net/). Normally in XSS [...]
This is a pretty interesting idea and for once it addresses a real requirement. A lot of stories have hit the press about people getting fired or ‘dooced’ because of stuff online or not even getting jobs because of something found on MySpace.
So up pops a company that is willing to protect your reputation online.
The [...]
SinFP is a new approach to OS fingerprinting, which bypasses limitations that nmap has.
Nmap approaches to fingerprinting as shown to be efficient for years. Nowadays, with the omni-presence of stateful filtering devices, PAT/NAT configurations and emerging packet normalization technologies, its approach to OS fingerprinting is becoming to be obsolete.
SinFP uses the aforementioned limitations as a [...]
This is the one and only (and first article) which will present you the source code of a virus on Darknet, and a lame one too
Theory again…
First should mention a couple of things which haven’t been specified till now. This virus is going to be an appending virus:
An appending virus is a virus [...]
When things like this happen it’s kinda of scary, like a while back when someone managed to get into a highly secure power station network through a stupid contractors laptop that was connected to the net via dialup and to the uber ’secure’ power station LAN.
An infected laptop PC gave hackers access to computer systems [...]
There has been a recent release of Backframe (Formerly Backweb) Attack Console.
Backframe Attack Console was started as an experiment to create a full featured attack console for exploiting web browsers, web users and remote applications. Those who are familiar with XSS Proxy or even BEEF might already be familiar with the core principles of the [...]
UK Police have uncovered a fairly massive data theft operation with a total close to 8,500 victims.
It’s quite worrying when things like this are uncovered as if 1 is uncovered or discovered…imagine how many aren’t found out about, just like exploits.
British electronic-crime detectives are investigating a massive data theft operation that stole sensitive information from [...]
This is just a simple warning to all NMAP users out there. If you’re registered on the announcement mailing list you already now this, otherwise, heads up.
NMAP 4.20 has been released with something that looks promising. 2nd generation OS detection. The changelog is available here.
Enjoy!
The first round results of the Linux Reverse Engineering Hacker Challenge are out!
http://www.hackerchallenge.org
It was expected that an intermediate hacker with Linux experience should be able to defeat the protection(s) in less than 10 hours. Participants may earn up to $4100 USD.
A total of 93 individuals registered to participate in the first Hacker Challenge. Individuals were [...]
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a freely available digital security magazine discussing some of the hottest information security topics. It can be distributed only in the form of the original non-modified PDF document.
The 9th issue of (IN)SECURE magazine was recently released, in this issue you can find the following:
Effectiveness of security by admonition: a case study of [...]
