The big news yesterday was an epic XSS flaw on Twitter that sent the micro-blogging service into chaos. They actually made an announcement during the hack that users should stay off the web-site and use 3rd party services through the API (Software such as Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Gravity etc). They posted an update on the status […]
Archives for September 2010
Havij Download – Advanced Automated SQL Injection Tool
Havij is an automated SQL Injection tool that helps penetration testers to find and exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web page. It’s a fully automated SQL Injection tool and it is distributed by ITSecTeam, an Iranian security company. The name Havij means “carrot”, which is the tool’s icon. The tool is designed with a […]
Interpol Chief Ronald K. Noble Has Facebook Identity Stolen
Just goes to show you can jack anyone, including one of those most powerful people in the policing world. It’s not really a technical security issue but still it shows online identity theft isn’t really difficult. That’s one difference between Twitter and Facebook, even though Twitter is only a micro-blogging service and doesn’t really store […]
CUPP – Common User Passwords Profiler – Automated Password Profiling Tool
A while back we had Wyd – Automated Password Profiling Tool but the guys at remote-exploit seem to have superseded this with CUPP. There are other similar options too – The Associative Word List Generator (AWLG) and also RSMangler – Keyword Based Wordlist Generator For Bruteforcing. People spend a lot of time preparing for effective […]
Critical Zero Day Abobe Flash Flaw Puts Android Phones At Risk
Adobe hasn’t been having the best of luck recently with a string of serious PDF exploits in their Reader software and now in less than a week two critical flaws in Flash. This is a pretty serious flaw and sadly proves Steve Jobs right for not supporting Flash on the iPhone and Ipad. A new […]