It’s not surprising really, when I learned that the recently retired NASA space shuttle was still using 5.25″ floppy drives – I suspected that much of the NASA IT architecture was probably antiquated. Also the recent SCADA related security scare, indicated the industrial and large-scale systems probably aren’t the most secure around. Combine those two […]
Archives for March 2011
T50 – Experimental Mixed Packet Injector & Network Stress Testing Tool
T50 Sukhoi PAK FA Mixed Packet Injector (f.k.a. F22 Raptor) is a tool designed to perform “Stress Testing”. It is a powerful and an unique packet injection tool, that is capable of the below: 1 – Send sequentially (i.e., ALMOST on the same time) the following protocols: ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol IGMP: Internet Group […]
RSA Silent About Compromise For 7 Days – Assume SecurID Is Broken
About a week ago we tweeted about the “Open Letter” from RSA to customers, a rather vague letter. If you haven’t read it yet, you can do so here. To summarise, they basically said “Recently, our security systems identified an extremely sophisticated cyber attack in progress being mounted against RSA. […] Our investigation also revealed […]
CAT – Web Application Security Test & Assessment Tool
CAT is designed to facilitate manual web application penetration testing for more complex, demanding application testing tasks. It removes some of the more repetitive elements of the testing process, allowing the tester to focus on individual applications, thus enabling them to conduct a much more thorough test. Conceptually it is similar to other proxies available […]
Exploits For Popular SCADA Programs Made Public
SCADA is not something we’ve mentioned before, we have covered related areas with articles such as – Industrial Control Systems Safe? I Think Not. Plus the whole Stuxnet thing which was able to attack nuclear plants. In a way I find it ironic because so much more emphasis these days is put on the security […]