[ad] Another one that has been a long time coming, but finally here it is! Nikto 2. Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 900 servers, and version specific problems on over 250 servers. […]
Archives for 2007
Worm Spreading Fast on Google’s Orkut Social Network
[ad] A new worm has hit Google’s Orkut and it seems to be hitting it pretty hard, it’s infected via the scrapbook feature and is adding hundreds of thousands of users, similar to the Myspace worm (Samy) that hit in October 2005. It seems to be fairly unmalicious, more of a ‘look at me – […]
Inguma 0.0.6 Released for Download – Free Pen-testing Framework
[ad] Quite a few people seem to be interested in this tool, so here is the latest revision – Inguma 0.0.6. For those that don’t know, Inguma is a free penetration testing and vulnerability discovery toolkit entirely written in python. Framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force usernames and […]
Pcapy – Python Interface to LibPcap
[ad] Pcapy is a Python extension module that interfaces with the libpcap packet capture library. Pcapy enables python scripts to capture packets on the network. Pcapy is highly effective when used in conjunction with a packet-handling package such as Impacket, which is a collection of Python classes for constructing and dissecting network packets. Advantages of […]
DNS Poisoning Getting Serious – Phishing from Open Recursive DNS Servers
[ad] A new generation of phishing attacks is being studied jointly by Google and Georgia Institute of Technology, it seems the bad guys are getting some smarter ideas. They are using Open Recursive DNS servers to poison DNS queries and return false information, thus luring consumers to even more realistic phishing domains. Researchers at Google […]