Tag Archive | "web-application-security"


28 January 2010 | 9,782 views

Groundspeed 1.1 – Web Application Security Add-on For Firefox

Groundspeed is an open-source Firefox extension for web application security testers presented at the OWASP AppSec DC 2009. It allows you to manipulate the web application’s user interface to eliminate annoying limitations and client-side controls that interfere with the web application penetration test. What can I do with Groundspeed? Groundspeed allows you to modify the [...]

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25 January 2010 | 7,634 views

Websense Offers Facebook Users Free ‘Firewall’ Service

There have been quite a few security concerns with Facebook, especially with the amount of personal information it collects on it’s users. Of course there is Koobface and it’s many variants which have been propagating all kinds of spam through Facebook wall posts and messages. I’m glad someone is offering a solution for free, yes [...]

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22 January 2010 | 9,340 views

Burp Suite v1.3 Released – Integrated Platform For Attacking Web Applications

Burp Suite is an integrated platform for attacking web applications. It contains all of the Burp tools with numerous interfaces between them designed to facilitate and speed up the process of attacking an application. All tools share the same robust framework for handling HTTP requests, persistence, authentication, upstream proxies, logging, alerting and extensibility. Burp Suite [...]

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11 January 2010 | 6,033 views

WAFP – Web Application Finger Printing Tool

How it works? WAFP fetches the files given by the Finger Prints from a webserver and checks if the checksums of those files are matching to the given checksums from the Finger Prints. This way it is able to detect the detailed version and even the build number of a Web Application. In detail? A [...]

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05 January 2010 | 15,573 views

fimap – Remote & Local File Inclusion (RFI/LFI) Scanner

fimap is a little python tool which can find, prepare, audit, exploit and even google automatically for local and remote file inclusion bugs in webapps. fimap is similar to sqlmap just for LFI/RFI bugs instead of sql injection. It is currently under heavy development but it’s usable. Features Check a Single URL, List of URLs, [...]

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06 November 2009 | 13,728 views

Binging (BETA) – Footprinting & Discovery Tool (Google Hacking)

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a tool of this type, back in the heydays of Google Hacking (which became the generic term for information gathering via search engines) there were multiple tools such as Gooscan and Goolag. Binging is a simple tool to query Bing search engine. It will use your Bing API [...]

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26 October 2009 | 4,823 views

Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) 2008 Statistics Published

The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is pleased to announce the WASC Web Application Security Statistics Project 2008. 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 [...]

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22 October 2009 | 34,080 views

Nikto 2.1.0 Released – Web Server Security Scanning Tool

It’s been almost 2 years since the last update on Nikto, which was version 2. For those that don’t know, Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 900 servers, and version specific problems on [...]

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08 September 2009 | 11,379 views

SWFScan – Free Flash Application Security Scanner

HP SWFScan is a free tool developed by HP Web Security Research Group, which will automatically find security vulnerabilities in applications built on the Flash platform. HP is offering SWFScan because: Their research shows that developers and increasingly implementing applications built on the Adobe Flash platform without the required security expertise. As a result, they [...]

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03 September 2009 | 17,688 views

MySqloit – SQL Injection Takeover Tool For LAMP

MySqloit is a SQL Injection takeover tool focused on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platforms. It has the ability to upload and execute metasploit shellcodes through the MySql SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Attackers performing SQL injection on a MySQL-PHP platform must deal with several limitations and constraints. For example, the [...]

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