The Cryptographic Implementations Analysis Toolkit (CIAT) is a compendium of command line and graphical tools whose aim is to help in the detection and analysis of encrypted byte sequences within files (executable and non-executable). It is particularly helpful in the forensic analysis and reverse engineering of malware using cryptographic code and encrypted payloads. This was […]
Security By Obscurity Not So Bad After All?
I’m sure you’ve been taught, as have I – that security through or by obscurity is bad (changing port numbers, removing service banners and so on). I’ve personally always used it, as an additional line of defence on my systems. As a hacker I know, the more information a system gives me straight off the […]
MagicTree v1.0 Released – Productivity Tool For Penetration Testers
We wrote about MagicTree back in January of this year when it was first launched – MagicTree – Penetration Tester Productivity Tool . It’s come quite a long way and the authors are happy to announce that MagicTree version 1.0 has been released and is available for download. MagicTree is a productivity tool for penetration […]
Anonymous Twitter Alternative Created For Protesters & Revolutionaries
There was a mass of news back in August about the London riots and how social media (especially Twitter) and the BlackBerry Messenger service (BBM) enabled the rioters to organize themselves via broadcast messages and tweets. After discovering a lot of rioters got busted from their Tweets and BBM messages (which are of course traceable) […]
Multi Threaded TCP Port Scanner For Linux & Windows
This tool is exactly what it says, it’s a Multi Threaded TCP Port Scanner with possibility to scan 65535 TCP ports on an IP address. You can specify how many threads to run and the timeout. It will tell you the MAC address of the target and the service running – works on both Linux […]