Archive | Web Hacking


07 February 2012 | 2,412 views

At Last – Adobe Launches Sandboxed Flash Player For Firefox

Finally a proactive measure from Adobe to try and remedy the horrible security flaws they have introduced to Firefox with their Flash Player. There have been some massive hacks recently due to Flash – - Hackers Exploiting Latest Adobe Flash Bug On Large Scale – Adobe Patches Latest Flash Zero Day Vulnerability – Adobe Promises [...]

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31 January 2012 | 6,209 views

theHarvester – Gather E-mail Accounts, Subdomains, Hosts, Employee Names – Information Gathering Tool

theHarvester is a tool to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database. This tools is intended to help Penetration testers in the early stages of the project It’s a really simple tool, but very effective. The sources supported [...]

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09 January 2012 | 8,657 views

Arachni v0.4 Released – High-Performance (Open Source) Web Application Security Scanner Framework

Arachni is a high-performance (Open Source) Web Application Security Scanner Framework written in Ruby. This version includes lots of goodies, including: A new light-weight RPC implementation (No more XMLRPC) High Performance Grid (HPG) — Combines the resources of multiple nodes for lightning-fast scans Updated WebUI to provide access to HPG features and context-sensitive help Accuracy [...]

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05 January 2012 | 11,167 views

Ramnit Worm Stealing Facebook Account Passwords, E-mail Address & Bank Details

Oh look, another Facebook worm – this one seems pretty nasty and as usual it’s going for Facebook access details and then diving into banking credentials if it can find them. It’s mostly targeted at the UK though, worms of these type usually are geographically limited as they are targeting bank information – it’s better [...]

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07 December 2011 | 9,609 views

sslyze – Fast and Full-Featured SSL Configuration Scanner

Transport Layer Security (TLS), commonly called SSL, is one of the most widely used protocols to secure network communications. As costs fall and user security and privacy expectations rise companies are deploying it more widely every year. Attacks against the CA system, SSL implementation flaws and aging protocol versions have grabbed news headlines, bringing attention [...]

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29 November 2011 | 9,178 views

Twitter Purchases WhisperCore – Full Disk Encryption For Android Phones

This is certainly an interesting acquisition and not one I would have expected, I’m not even exactly sure what Twitter is planning and why they would want a company focused on mobile encryption (and specifically on the Android platform). I can’t see any real corporate use for Twitter, so they won’t be pushing the security [...]

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21 November 2011 | 10,540 views

sqlsus 0.7.1 Released – MySQL Injection & Takeover Tool

sqlsus is an open source MySQL injection and takeover tool, written in perl. Via a command line interface, you can retrieve the database(s) structure, inject your own SQL queries (even complex ones), download files from the web server, crawl the website for writable directories, upload and control a backdoor, clone the database(s), and much more…Whenever [...]

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17 November 2011 | 7,804 views

GoLISMERO – Web Application Mapping Tool

GoLISMERO helps you to map a web application, displaying the results in a readable format for security auditors and also prepares the results for integration with other web hacking tools as w3af, wfuzz, netcat, nikto, etc. Features Map a web aplication. Show all links and forms params as confortable format. Save results with some formats: [...]

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14 November 2011 | 7,490 views

w3af v1.1 Released For Download – Web Application Attack & Audit Framework

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project’s goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend. The w3af core and it’s plugins are fully written in python. The project has more than 130 plugins, which check for SQL injection, cross [...]

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02 November 2011 | 8,248 views

13 Out Of 15 Popular CAPTCHA Schemes Vulnerable To Automated Attacks

This is not a real shock to be if I’m perfectly honestly, I only use reCAPTCHA whenever I need a CAPTCHA implementation for anything. And well even then, it’s not totally safe as apparently you can farm out your CAPTCHA cracking (those the fail the automated attempts) to India for a few dollars. It does [...]

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