The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is specifically designed to perform advanced attacks against the human element. SET was designed to be released with the http://www.social-engineer.org launch and has quickly became a standard tool in a penetration testers arsenal. SET was written by David Kennedy (ReL1K) and with a lot of help from the community it has [...]
After informing a researcher just a few days ago that “they do not consider this vulnerability to be of high enough priority to break their quarterly patch cycle” they have made a 180 turn on the issue and pushed out an emergency patch to mitigate against the Serious Java Bug That Exposes Users To Code [...]
Once again a different attack vector, seems to the creative season for discovering bugs. I guess it’s partially due to the fact this time of year tends to be pretty quiet business wise so researchers have plenty of downtime to look at nifty ways to break things. This might be a tough one to solve [...]
Web-Harvest is Open Source Web Data Extraction tool written in Java. It offers a way to collect desired Web pages and extract useful data from them. In order to do that, it leverages well established techniques and technologies for text/xml manipulation such as XSLT, XQuery and Regular Expressions. Web-Harvest mainly focuses on HTML/XML based web [...]
Continuing with the series of tools I’ve been posting on source code auditing and application security, here is PMD a Java Source Code Scanner. PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like: Possible bugs – empty try/catch/finally/switch statements Dead code – unused local variables, parameters and private methods Suboptimal code – wasteful [...]
FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It is based on the concept of bug patterns. A bug pattern is a code idiom that is often an error. Bug patterns arise for a variety of reasons: Difficult language features Misunderstood API methods Misunderstood invariants when code is modified during maintenance Garden variety mistakes: typos, use [...]
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