Tag Archive | "web-security"


09 January 2012 | 8,604 views

Arachni v0.4 Released – High-Performance (Open Source) Web Application Security Scanner Framework

Arachni is a high-performance (Open Source) Web Application Security Scanner Framework written in Ruby. This version includes lots of goodies, including: A new light-weight RPC implementation (No more XMLRPC) High Performance Grid (HPG) — Combines the resources of multiple nodes for lightning-fast scans Updated WebUI to provide access to HPG features and context-sensitive help Accuracy [...]

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17 November 2011 | 7,796 views

GoLISMERO – Web Application Mapping Tool

GoLISMERO helps you to map a web application, displaying the results in a readable format for security auditors and also prepares the results for integration with other web hacking tools as w3af, wfuzz, netcat, nikto, etc. Features Map a web aplication. Show all links and forms params as confortable format. Save results with some formats: [...]

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02 November 2011 | 8,237 views

13 Out Of 15 Popular CAPTCHA Schemes Vulnerable To Automated Attacks

This is not a real shock to be if I’m perfectly honestly, I only use reCAPTCHA whenever I need a CAPTCHA implementation for anything. And well even then, it’s not totally safe as apparently you can farm out your CAPTCHA cracking (those the fail the automated attempts) to India for a few dollars. It does [...]

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14 September 2011 | 8,286 views

WAVSEP – Web Application Vulnerability Scanner Evaluation Project

The author of WAVSEP (Shay Chen) e-mailed quite some time back about this project, but I have to say I honestly didn’t have time to look at it back then. It popped back up on my radar again when it was mentioned by the author of – Arachni v0.3 – his tool did extremely well [...]

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05 August 2011 | 10,611 views

Websecurify – Integrated Web Security Testing Environment

Websecurify is an integrated web security testing environment, which can be used to identify web vulnerabilities by using advanced browser automation, discovery and fuzzing technologies. The platform is designed to perform automated as well as manual vulnerability tests and it is constantly improved and fine-tuned by a team of world class web application security penetration [...]

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15 July 2011 | 13,413 views

Mantra Security Toolkit 0.6.1 Released – Browser Based Hacking Framework

Mantra 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. The software is intended to be lite, flexible, portable and user [...]

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15 June 2011 | 8,188 views

Skipfish 1.94b Released – Active Web Application Security Reconnaissance Tool

It’s been a while since we last mentioned Skipfish, it was back in March 2010 when they first came out. Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the [...]

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08 June 2011 | 10,551 views

Burp Suite Free Edition v1.4 – Web Application Security Testing Tool

We love Burp Suite and we have since wayyyy back, the last update we posted was around 18 months ago back in January 2010 – Burp Suite v1.3 Released – Integrated Platform For Attacking Web Applications. For the two people here who don’t know what this tool does, Burp Suite is an integrated platform for [...]

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26 April 2011 | 9,800 views

OWASP Hatkit Proxy Project – HTTP/TCP Intercepting Proxy Tool

The primary purpose of the Hatkit Proxy is to create a minimal, lightweight proxy which stores traffic into an offline storage where further analysis can be performed, i.e. all kinds of analysis which is currently implemented by the proxies themselves (WebScarab/Burp/Paros etc). Also, since the http traffic is stored in a MongoDB, the traffic is [...]

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06 April 2011 | 6,197 views

Google Chrome To Protect Users Against Malicious Executables

It looks like Google Chrome is stepping up to provide users with the most secure browsing experience. The browser has been built with security in mind since the beginning with it’s sandbox model and it escaped exploitation during the recent Pwn2Own contest. Now they are infringing on the area of anti-virus vendors and stepping up [...]

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