Tag Archive | "web-application-security"


09 February 2011 | 11,046 views

Penetration Testing Course Pro 1.1 – New Version & New Module

Penetration Testing Course Pro 1.1 release aims at addressing all of the suggestions collected in the first 6 months of activity and adds 1 new module and 50 minutes of video training on Social Engineering Toolkit. As reviewed by us before (eLearnSecurity – Online Penetration Testing Training) this course is becoming a very popular choice [...]

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07 February 2011 | 12,070 views

Canadian Dating Site PlentyofFish.com Hacked

Something which caused some kind of stir last week was the hacking of the Canadian dating site Plenty of Fish (sometimes known as PoF) which rose to fame on the Webmaster forums for SEO due to a picture of Markus Frind holding an Adsense cheque for $132,000 for two months earning. For anyone not familiar [...]

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24 January 2011 | 16,630 views

Mantra Security Toolkit – Free & Open Source Browser-Based Security Framework

Mantra is a dream that came true. It 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. Mantra is a [...]

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14 December 2010 | 15,308 views

SQLInject-Finder – Intelligent SQL Injection Detection Script

SQLInject-Finder is a simple python script that parses through a pcap and looks at the GET and POST request data for suspicious and possible SQL injects. Rules to check for SQL injection can be easily added. Output can be printed neatly on the command line or in tab delimited format. The output includes: The suspicious [...]

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03 December 2010 | 8,709 views

LFIMAP – Scan For Files Vulnerable To LFI (Local File Inclusion)

There are some existing tools that deal with LFI vulnerabilities such as fimap the Remote & Local File Inclusion (RFI/LFI) Scanner and inspathx a Tool For Finding Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities (which can lead to the discovery of LFI). A new simple tool was released recently which focuses purely on LFI attacks. Functions Automatically find the [...]

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09 November 2010 | 8,287 views

XSSer v1.0 – Cross Site Scripter Framework

XSSer is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting XSS injections against different applications. It contains several options to try to bypass certain filters, and various special techniques of code injection. New Features Added “final remote injections” option Cross Flash Attack! Cross Frame Scripting Data Control Protocol Injections [...]

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01 November 2010 | 8,664 views

WATOBO – The Web Application Toolbox

WATOBO is intended to enable security professionals to perform highly efficient (semi-automated ) web application security audits. We are convinced that the semi-automated approach is the best way to perform an accurate audit and to identify most of the vulnerabilities. WATOBO has no attack capabilities and is provided for legal vulnerability audit purposes only. How [...]

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07 October 2010 | 14,455 views

OWASP ZAP – Zed Attack Proxy – Web Application Penetration Testing

The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who a new to penetration testing. ZAP provides automated scanners [...]

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30 September 2010 | 5,908 views

inspathx – Tool For Finding Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities

inspathx is a tool that uses local source tree to make requests to the URL and searches for path inclusion (Full Path Disclosure) error messages. It’s a very common problem in PHP web applications that crops up a lot. PHP Web application developers sometimes fail to add safety checks against authentications, file inclusion etc and [...]

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24 September 2010 | 26,425 views

Microsoft Warns Of ASP.Net Vulnerability In The Wild – Cryptographic Padding Attack

There seems to be a fairly serious attack being exploited in the wild that targets vulnerable ASP.Net web applications, so far there is a temporary fix but no official announcement on when a patch will be issued. The next scheduled patches should be pushed out on October 12th. If you had set up your server [...]

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