[ad] Another big heist in the US netting a whole lot of juicy information on credit and debit cards, over half a million USD lost in this case alone. There’s a whole lot of fraud going on.. Not bad for fiddling with the cash register system of a restaurant chain. It just shows, anyone dealing […]
Archives for 2008
Xprobe2 Download – Active OS Fingerprinting Tool
xprobe2 is an active operating system fingerprinting tool with a different approach to operating system fingerprinting. xprobe2 relies on fuzzy signature matching, probabilistic guesses, multiple matches simultaneously, and a signature database. As xprobe2 uses raw sockets to send probes, you must have root privileges in order for xprobe2 to be able to use them. Some […]
New Botnet Malware Spreading SQL Injection Attack Tool
[ad] Now this is an interesting turn of events, the Asprox botnet malware is being used to spread SQL Injection tools rather than sending out phishing e-mails as before. It seems to install quite stealthily as well disguising itself as a Windows Service with a fairly convincing file name. It’s certainly interesting to see the […]
browserrecon – Passive Browser Fingerprinting
[ad] Most of todays tools for fingerprinting are focusing on server-side services. Well-known and widely-accepted implementations of such utilities are available for http web services, smtp mail server, ftp servers and even telnet daemons. Of course, many attack scenarios are focusing on server-side attacks. Client-based attacks, especially targeting web clients, are becoming more and more […]
oCERT – Responsing to Flaws in Open Source Software
[ad] So a new initiative – the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team known as oCERT has been set up one of the main sponsors being Google (read more here – Contributing to Open Source Software Security). The oCERT project is a public effort providing security handling support to Open Source projects affected by security […]