Archive | Database Hacking


19 April 2010 | 8,654 views

Netsparker Community Edition – Web Application Security Scanner

Netsparker is a Web Application Security Scanner that claims to be False-Positive Free. The developers thought that if you need to investigate every single identified issue manually what’s the point of having an automated scanner? So they developed a new technology which can confirm vulnerabilities on demand which allowed us to develop the first false [...]

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10 March 2010 | 10,948 views

WebRaider – Automated Web Application Exploitation Tool

WebRaider is a plugin based automated web application exploitation tool which focuses to get a shell from multiple targets or injection point Idea of this attack is very simple. Getting a reverse shell from an SQL Injection with one request without using an extra channel such as TFTP, FTP to upload the initial payload. It’s [...]

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10 February 2010 | 8,029 views

GreenSQL – Open Source Database Firewall Software

GreenSQL is an Open Source database firewall used to protect databases from SQL injection attacks. GreenSQL works as a proxy for SQL commands and has built in support for MySQL & PostgreSQL . The logic is based on evaluation of SQL commands using a risk scoring matrix as well as blocking known db administrative commands [...]

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18 January 2010 | 8,705 views

Microsoft SQL Server Fingerprint Tool – BETA4

This is a tool that performs version fingerprinting on Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, using well known techniques based on several public tools that identifies the SQL Version. The strength of this tool is that it uses probabilistic algorithm to identify the version of the Microsoft SQL Server. The “Microsoft SQL Server Fingerprint [...]

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03 September 2009 | 17,940 views

MySqloit – SQL Injection Takeover Tool For LAMP

MySqloit is a SQL Injection takeover tool focused on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platforms. It has the ability to upload and execute metasploit shellcodes through the MySql SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Attackers performing SQL injection on a MySQL-PHP platform must deal with several limitations and constraints. For example, the [...]

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31 July 2009 | 14,849 views

sqlmap 0.7 Released – Automatic SQL Injection Tool

We’ve been following sqlmap since it first came out in Feburary 2007 and it’s been quite some time since the last update sqlmap 0.6.3 in December 2008. For those not familiar with the tool, sqlmap is an open source command-line automatic SQL injection tool. Its goal is to detect and take advantage of SQL injection [...]

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17 July 2009 | 13,084 views

bsqlbf v2.3 Released – Blind SQL Injection Brute Forcing Tool

This perl script allows extraction of data from Blind SQL Injections. It accepts custom SQL queries as a command line parameter and it works for both integer and string based injections. We reported bsqlbf when it first hit the net back in April 2006 with bsqlbf v1.1, then the v2.0 update in June 2008. This [...]

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19 June 2009 | 11,102 views

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) 6.5 Released

You may remember a while back we did a Review of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 6 – the very full featured web vulnerability scanning software. Well the latest version has been released recently with some updates, bug fixes and improvements on the web application security front. I’m hoping to try out the AcuSensor on a [...]

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13 May 2009 | 64,978 views

Pangolin – Automatic SQL Injection Tool

Pangolin is an automatic SQL injection penetration testing tool developed by NOSEC. Its goal is to detect and take advantage of SQL injection vulnerabilities on web applications. Once it detects one or more SQL injections on the target host, the user can choose among a variety of options to perform an extensive back-end database management [...]

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23 March 2009 | 10,256 views

sqlsus 0.2 Released – MySQL Injection & Takeover Tool

sqlsus is an open source MySQL injection and takeover tool, written in perl. Via a command line interface that mimics a mysql console, you can retrieve the database structure, inject a SQL query, download files from the web server, upload and control a backdoor, and much more… It is designed to maximize the amount of [...]

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