Archive | Web Hacking


12 October 2011 | 9,737 views

VeriSign Demands The Power To Take Down Websites/Domains

I was scanning the news today, and nothing much was going on. There were some half-arsed stories about Anonymous and LulzSec – but nothing really worth writing about. And then, and then I spotted this, which quite frankly scares the shit out of me. As much as it may well have a use in law [...]

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11 October 2011 | 8,682 views

File Disclosure Browser – Tool To Explore .DS_Store Files

The File Disclosure Browser takes .DS_Store files found on websites and parses through them to find a list of all potential files in the directory. It can then either just display the URLs for the files or if you give it a proxy it can browse to the files itself. The author wrote it after [...]

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15 September 2011 | 11,328 views

Lilith – Web Application Security Audit Tool

LiLith is a tool written in Perl to audit web applications. This tool analyses webpages and looks for html form tags , which often refer to dynamic pages that might be subject to SQL injection or other flaws. It works as an ordinary spider and analyses pages, following hyperlinks, injecting special characters that have a [...]

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14 September 2011 | 8,770 views

WAVSEP – Web Application Vulnerability Scanner Evaluation Project

The author of WAVSEP (Shay Chen) e-mailed quite some time back about this project, but I have to say I honestly didn’t have time to look at it back then. It popped back up on my radar again when it was mentioned by the author of – Arachni v0.3 – his tool did extremely well [...]

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29 August 2011 | 59,432 views

WebSurgery – Web Application Security Testing Suite

WebSurgery is a suite of tools for security testing of web applications. It was designed for security auditors to help them with the web application planning and exploitation. Currently, it uses an efficient, fast and stable Web Crawler, File/Dir Brute forcer, Fuzzer for advanced exploitation of known and unusual vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection, Cross [...]

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22 August 2011 | 12,425 views

Arachni v0.3 Released – Web Application Security Scanner Framework

It’s been a while since we last mentioned Arachni, it was back in February – Arachni v0.2.2.1 – Web Application Security Scanner Framework. For those who are not aware, Arachni is a fully automated system which tries to enforce the fire and forget principle. As soon as a scan is started it will not bother [...]

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05 August 2011 | 11,058 views

Websecurify – Integrated Web Security Testing Environment

Websecurify is an integrated web security testing environment, which can be used to identify web vulnerabilities by using advanced browser automation, discovery and fuzzing technologies. The platform is designed to perform automated as well as manual vulnerability tests and it is constantly improved and fine-tuned by a team of world class web application security penetration [...]

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03 August 2011 | 11,215 views

Zero-day Vulnerability In TimThumb Image Utility Threatens Many WordPress Sites

This is pretty apt after we wrote about WebsiteDefender – Ensure Your Website Security on Monday, a platform for securing web applications with a focus on WordPress. Today a zero-day in a very commonly used WordPress library hit quite a few news sites. The flaw is in an image utility called TimThumb which is used [...]

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01 August 2011 | 11,702 views

WebsiteDefender – Ensure Your Website Security

WebsiteDefender is an online service that monitors your website for hacker activity, audits the security of your web site and gives you easy to understand solutions to keep your website safe. With WebsiteDefender you can: Detect Malware present on your website Audit your web site for security issues Avoid getting blacklisted by Google Keep your [...]

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15 July 2011 | 14,043 views

Mantra Security Toolkit 0.6.1 Released – Browser Based Hacking Framework

Mantra is a collection of free and open source tools integrated into a web browser, which can become handy for students, penetration testers, web application developers,security professionals etc. It is portable, ready-to-run, compact and follows the true spirit of free and open source software. The software is intended to be lite, flexible, portable and user [...]

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