We got an e-mail a while back about this new and apparently simple Oracle Application Server scanner.
It detects web pages, DADs (Database Access Descriptors) and test applications installed by default.

It may be useful for system hardening and pen-test.
You can download OAPScan here:
OAPScan.tar.gz

At Black Hat Europe (in Amsterdam) security experts from India (Nitin and Vipin Kumar of NV labs) demonstrated a special boot loader that gets around Vista’s code-signing mechanisms. Known as VBoot and launching from a CD and booting Vista it can make on-the-fly changes in memory and in files being read.
In a demonstration, the “boot [...]

ProxyFuzz is a man-in-the-middle non-deterministic network fuzzer written in Python. ProxyFuzz randomly changes (fuzzes) contents on the network traffic. It supports TCP and UDP protocols and can also be configured to fuzz only one side of the communication. ProxyFuzz is protocol agnostic so it can randomly fuzz any network communication.

ProxyFuzz is a good tool for [...]

The Kcpentrix Project was founded in May 2005 , KCPentrix 1.0 was liveCD designed to be a standalone Penetration testing toolkit for pentesters, security analysts and System administrators
What’s New in KcPentrix 2.0
Now release 2.0 is a liveDVD, It features a lot of new or up to date tools for auditing and testing a network, from [...]

This is some pretty interesting news, rather than trying to cover things up like normal during July the Philippine government will be soliciting hackers to test the security of their Internet voting system.
I think it’s a great initiative from the International Foundation for Electoral System.

Local and foreign computer hackers will be tapped to try and [...]

sqlninja is a tool to exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web application that uses Microsoft SQL Server as its back-end. Its main goal is to provide a remote shell on the vulnerable DB server, even in a very hostile environment.
It should be used by penetration testers to help and automate the process of taking [...]

An interesting snippet from last month, AOL seems to have a strangely configued password system.
Users can enter up to 16 characters as a password, but the system only reads the first 8 and discards the rest. They are basically truncating the password at 8 characters.

A reader wrote in Friday with an interesting observation: When he [...]

Some cool free tools made by folks from the French Honeynet Project.
FakeNetBIOS is a family of tools designed to simulate Windows hosts on a LAN. The individual tools are:

FakeNetbiosDGM (NetBIOS Datagram)
FakeNetbiosNS (NetBIOS Name Service)

Each tool can be used as a standalone tool or as a honeyd responder or subsystem.
FakeNetbiosDGM sends NetBIOS Datagram service packets on [...]

Ah, FBI slammed again, it’s not the first time this has happened.
Remember when a Consultant Breached FBI’s Computers?
It also reminds me of when Homeland Security Scored an F for Internal Security AGAIN.

The Government Accountability Office, the federal government’s watchdog agency, Thursday released a report critical of the FBI’s internal network, asserting it lacks security controls [...]

Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues.
It is possible to boot TRK in three different ways:

As a bootable CD which you can burn yourself from a downloadable isofile
From a USB stick/disk (optionally [...]

Another video in 2-3 days… I think i this becoming like a mania for me… Anyway in this video i played around with netstat so that for those who do not play with it could see the possibilities it offers to us… no more tutorials like:

netstat -a
to view all you connections
the end

… because I have [...]

Finally a new Phrack! Phrack 64 has been released a while back at the end of May, and it’s been quite a wait.
At the beginning in 1985, Phrack started as an anarchy magazine. You can learn from the first issues how to create your own bomb or how to seriously take advantage of the world [...]

There has been an explosion of fuzzing tools lately, quite a few we have mentioned here on Darknet.
Someone else noticed this, and wondered where is the Perl framework to complete the family? With that in mind he spent the last few months working on something that should fill the gap - Fuzzled.

Fuzzled is a [...]

I was thinking that the darknet authors should create videos when they write about different tools… It should be fun to see presentations… and also would bring darknet more hits…
I made a video for my previous article, and uploaded it to youtube: stealth techniques - syn

…for better quality download it: here
Is any author on darknet [...]

Or half-open scanning technique is the first of three to come series about stealth scanning… The other two are Xmas/Fin/Null and idle/zombie scan techniques…
Intro
This is a series of three to come articles about stealth scanning, everything that I am going to present is hping oriented so if you want to learn this techniques you’d better [...]

Phishers never give up, password theft protected pages? But what about password protected messenger application… No more to say check it out (lame)…
Link :: www.ourgodfather.com
Another Yahoo anti-phising (did you know?):
zahoo.com (also yahoo, for the ones that have inverted keyboard y-z)

PRIAMOS is a powerful SQL Injector & Scanner

You can search for SQL Injection vulnerabilities and inject vulnerable string to get all Database names, Tables and Column data with the injector module.
You should only use PRIAMOS to test the security vulnerabilities of your own web applications (obviously).
The first release of PRIAMOS contain only SQL Server Database [...]

Our Polish friend and expert security researcher, Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf), known for his endless stream of vulnerabilities in all manners of software, has struck again.
This time with some pretty serious flaws in both Internet Exploder Explorer and Firefox. This time it’s 4, 2 in IE and 2 in Firefox.
The first which effects fully patched IE6 [...]

SQLBrute is a tool for brute forcing data out of databases using blind SQL injection vulnerabilities. It supports time based and error based exploit types on Microsoft SQL Server, and error based exploit on Oracle. It is written in Python, uses multi-threading, and doesn’t require non-standard libraries (there is some code in there for pycurl, [...]

Well this is a harsh turn of events, a while back an ‘ethics expert’ said Wifi Jacking is OK, now this poor guy has got pretty harshly screwed for using an open wireless connection from a nearby coffeeshop.

A Michigan man has been fined $400 and given 40 hours of community service for accessing an [...]