Finally a proactive measure from Adobe to try and remedy the horrible security flaws they have introduced to Firefox with their Flash Player. There have been some massive hacks recently due to Flash – – Hackers Exploiting Latest Adobe Flash Bug On Large Scale – Adobe Patches Latest Flash Zero Day Vulnerability – Adobe Promises […]
Archives for 2012
theHarvester – Gather E-mail Accounts, Subdomains, Hosts, Employee Names
theHarvester is a tool for gathering e-mail accounts, subdomain names, virtual hosts, open ports/ banners, and employee names from different public sources (search engines, pgp key servers). Is a really simple tool, but very effective for the early stages of a penetration test or just to know the visibility of your company on the Internet. […]
Super Powered Malware Sandwiches Found In The Wild – Frankenmalware
Now this is quite a fascinating story, especially if you know anything about Malware and have interests in that area. It seems the latest development is the accidental development of new super-malware strains created by viruses infecting executable files of worms. Worms are generally executable files and well, viruses infect executables – so you can […]
Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.5.10 – Forensics Framework To Manage Cases & Case Items
Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tools. Installation As root, type:
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Usage Run mobius_bin.py. You can download Mobius 0.5.10 here: mobiusft-0.5.10.tar.gz mobiusft-0.5.10.zip Or […]
Sprint Adds Google Wallet Into New NFC Capable Phones
Oh look, another aspect of security and privacy to consider as Google pushes its’ mobile payment solution ‘Wallet’ onto two new NFC capable phones – the Galaxy Nexus & LG Viper. If you haven’t heard of the service you can find out more here – Google Wallet (Wikipedia). The main concern here (security wise) is […]