Happy New Year to everyone and cheers to a fantastic 2008.
Let’s hope the year is buzzing with security news, there are interesting and exciting new developments and tools and the Darknet community can grow and become more active.
If you can help us promote the site we’d appreciate it! Just drop a mention to friends, link [...]

I’d just like to take this opportunity to wish you all a jolly and safe Christmas, enjoy some time with your families and friends.
Relax, have some food, some drinks and some fun.
I’d like to thank you all for your continued support, reading, rss subscriptions and especially to those who actively comment.
I really enjoy each and [...]

I was thinking that the darknet authors should create videos when they write about different tools… It should be fun to see presentations… and also would bring darknet more hits…
I made a video for my previous article, and uploaded it to youtube: stealth techniques - syn

…for better quality download it: here
Is any author on darknet [...]

From now on we will be having a commenter of the month competition here at Darknet to encourage quality comments and discussion.
We hope to get more interactive here and we will be giving out prizes sponsored by GFI such as PSP’s iPods and other cool stuff bundled with goodies from GFI such as mugs, key-chains [...]

Apologies for the recent down-time at Darknet, the longest we’ve had so far I think.
The disk-array crashed completely, hardware fault, so rebuilding and recovering the data from the bad disk, then restoring everything was a fairly long process.
The site was back up quite early but the database inaccessible due to the taxing of the processor [...]

I saw a pretty interesting article a few days attempting to reverse engineer the mosaic tool used often online to obscure sensitive or confidential information.
The article shows that the mosaic isn’t actually very random, and in a way you can brute force reverse engineer the mosaic to reveal the contents before they were obscured.
It’s ok [...]

Yes it’s been exactly one year since Darknet was relaunched in it’s new form supported by Wordpress and a variety of posts about tools, tutorials and the latest news from the information security and specifically ethical hacking areas.
The first post of the new site:
Welcome to Darknet - The REBIRTH
It’s been an interesting year with 2 [...]

Web Hack Control Center is a GUI based web server vulnerability scanner or assessment tool. This application gives you the means to identify which security vulnerabilities exist on your web servers by scanning them for the most popular server exploits. WHCC contains a database of thousands of exploits for a variety of web servers. This [...]

Now this is a massive growth, 8000% percent..woah!
Thankfully losses are still ‘modest’ whatever that means, I guess although the attacks grow in
number, awareness an education also increases (in places like UK anyway) so the risk is fairly well mitigated.

UK incidents of phishing scams have grown 8,000 per cent over the last two years, according to [...]

Grab the new Firefox now, 2.0.0.1! 8 Security Vulnerabilities have been fixed in this last release of the year 2006.
I’m glad to see Firefox upholding their quick turnaround and rapid fixing of issues that spring up during development and improvement of their product.

Mozilla has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser to fix [...]