[ad] Interesting research from Elcomsoft, using the parallel processing capacity of graphics cards to speed up the password cracking process. Pretty inventive thinking, as graphics cards get more and more powerful, and they are created to do massive parallel tasks for all the latest and greatest games, why not apply it to password cracking! A […]
Archives for November 2007
untidy – XML Fuzzer
[ad] Seen as though untidy was mentioned again fairly recent, it sparked my memory that I have a fairly old draft regarding untidy the XML Fuzzer. Fuzzing is definitely becoming an important part of Pen Testing and especially application security – we’ve published about quite a few and I’m sure there are more in development. […]
October Commenter of the Month Competition Winner!
[ad] Competition time again! We unfortunately lost quite a few comments due to the server crash in early October, but activity after that was pretty good with some excellent quality comments. As you know we started the Darknet Commenter of the Month Competition on June 1st and it ran for the whole of June and […]
Thousands Hooked by Malware from Big Sites
[ad] If I recall this is not the first time this has happened, delivering viral payloads via banner ads and flaws in scripting. It seems that malware peddlers are getting more aggressive though, it obviously shows there is actual monetary value in infecting people and stealing their data. A subtle form of social engineering too, […]
WSBang – Python Based SOAP Services Testing Tool
[ad] WSBang is designed to be a lightweight, open source fuzzer for web services. It takes as input the URL or file system location of a WSDL for the web service to be tested. Upon completion, a simple HTML view of the test results will be displayed. Method parameters are fuzzed based on their type […]