So, today we have a tale of the fabled American knee-jerk reaction, kid arrested for clock he built – this time to a 14-year-old Muslim boy who made a cool clock and brought it to school. He got arrested, cuffed and fingerprinted – over a science project. Yah, arrested for building a clock. That seems […]
Archives for September 2015
BackBox Linux Download – Penetration Testing LiveCD
BackBox Linux is a distribution based on Ubuntu and is essentially a penetration testing or ethical hacking LiveCD. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the […]
AIDE – Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a file and directory integrity checker, it was initially developed as a free replacement for Tripwire licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). How it Works Aide takes a “snapshot” of the state of the system, register hashes, modification times, and other data regarding the […]
WhatsApp Web vCard Vulnerability Exposed 200M Users
So it seems there was a lot of noise about the WhatsApp Web vCard Vulnerability with over 200 Million people using the desktop version of WhatsApp – it’s a fairly large cache of users to go after. Disclosed by Check Point security, the vulnerability is exploited by sending a vCard contact containing malicious code to […]
Gcat – Python Backdoor Using Gmail For Command & Control
Gcat is a stealthy Python backdoor that uses Gmail as a command and control server. It’s fairly basic right now, but it’s an interesting proof of concept and if the community got behind it and contributed some new features it could be a pretty powerful piece of kit. Feature wise it doesn’t have that much, […]