[ad] A lot of companies are moving towards virtualization, blade servers and sharing hardware components makes sense when you can have multiple logical servers on one physical machine. I’ve used VMWare in a few situations myself but mostly I don’t see a real requirement for using virtual machines (apart from hosting with a VPS). There […]
Archives for December 2008
sqlmap 0.6.3 Released – Automatic SQL Injection Tool
[ad] sqlmap is an automatic SQL injection tool developed in Python. Its goal is to detect and take advantage of SQL injection vulnerabilities on web applications. Once it detects one or more SQL injections on the target host, the user can choose among a variety of options to perform an extensive back end database management […]
Microsoft Breaks Patch Cycle to Issue IE Patch
[ad] Well it has happened before, quite recently in fact – back in October Microsoft rushed out a patch for the RPC exploit, which was the first time in 18 months they had issued an out of band patch. Now just a couple of months later they are releasing another one (which should be available […]
Complemento v0.4b – LetDown TCP Flooder, ReverseRaider Subdomain Scanner & Httsquash HTTP Server Scanner Tool
[ad] An interesting collection of tools for pen-testing including a DoS tool (something you don’t often see publicly released). Complemento is a collection of tools that the author originally created for his own personal toolchain for solving some problems or just for fun. Now he has decided to release it to the public. The Tools […]
IE7 Exploit Also Affects IE5, IE6 and IE8! More Users In Trouble
[ad] I’m sure you’ve heard about the Microsoft IE7 Exploit that allows Remote Code Execution on XP & Vista, it turns out it’s actually much worse than first expected. The exploit also affects IE5.01, IE6 and IE8 on all OS versions! That’s a pretty worrying turn of events for MS especially as they are seemingly […]