The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites. In developing this environment, we have based our tool selection on the tools we use [...]
Google hacking was the big thing back in 2004, I actually did a talk on it in Hack in the Box 2004, it’s resurfaced again as a serious threat with Google noticing more queries relating to things like social security numbers.
The Google Hacking Database has been active for years now and there are hundreds of [...]
XSS-Proxy is an advanced Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attack tool. The documents, tools and other content on this site assume you have a basic understanding of XSS issues and existing exploitation methods. If you are not famliar with XSS, then I recommend you check out the primer links/docs below to get a better of idea of what [...]
Purpose
The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is pleased to announce the WASC Web Application Security Statistics Project 2007. This initiative is a collaborative industry wide effort to pool together sanitized website vulnerability data and to gain a better understanding about the web application vulnerability landscape. We ascertain which classes of attacks are the most prevalent [...]
What Does reDuh Do?
reDuh is actually a tool that can be used to create a TCP circuit through validly formed HTTP requests.
Essentially this means that if we can upload a JSP/PHP/ASP page on a server, we can connect to hosts behind that server trivially
What is it for?
a) Bob.Hacker has the ability to upload / create [...]
After a recent survey it shows online banking may not be as secure as you might think. People tend to think banks are the pinnacle of security and that assumption continues to their websites.
Sadly however, even in my own personal experience, the truth is far from that. Many many banks have flaws that can leak [...]
It looks like China is becoming a hotbed for malware and malicious websites (those sites that push malware infections via browser exploits).
They often used to be found in Korea and Taiwan and parts of Eastern Europe. According to the latest data more than half of the sites are now located in China.
More than half of [...]
We’ve been folowing the development of sqlninja since the early days, it’s growing into a well matured and more polished tool with advanced features.
Sqlninja is a tool written in PERL to exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web application that uses Microsoft SQL Server as its back-end. Its main goal is to provide a remote [...]
It seems like Microsoft are starting to get serious about security, in a very progressive move they have said they are ok with ethical hackers finding security flaws in their online services.
It’s been fairly ok so far to hack away at software installed on your own hardware, but hitting remotely hosted applications has been a [...]
HDIV (HTTP Data Integrity Validator) is a Java Web Application Security Framework. HDIV extends web applications’ behaviour by adding Security functionalities, maintaining the API and the framework specification. This implies that we can use HDIV in applications developed in Struts 1.x, Struts 2.x, Spring MVC and JSTL in a transparent way to the programmer and [...]
