A lot of people and companies get complacent and don’t believe the hackers are winning, but trust me they are. So we have to ask, why are hackers winning the security game? What’s putting them ahead of the security teams and CISOs inside organizations. It’s an old story anyway, the Hackers always win in some […]
Archives for February 2017
hashID – Identify Different Types of Hashes
hashID is a tool to help you identify different types of hashes used to encrypt data, especially passwords. It’s written in Python 3 and supports the identification of over 220 unique hash types using regular expressions. hashID is able to identify a single hash, parse a file or read multiple files in a directory and […]
Stitch – Python Remote Administration Tool AKA RAT
Stitch is a cross-platform Python Remote Administration Tool, commonly known as a RAT. This framework allows you to build custom payloads for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux as well. You are able to select whether the payload binds to a specific IP and port, listens for a connection on a port, option to send an […]
160,000 Network Printers Hacked
It’s a pretty simple hack (in a rather grey-hat fashion), but it’s getting a LOT of media coverage and 160,000 network printers hacked just goes to show once again the whole Internet of Things chapter we are entering is pretty scary. Definitely a neat hack tho, utilising the mass scanning power of Zmap and scanning […]
Abbrase – Abbreviated Passphrase Password Generator
Abbrase is an abbreviated passphrase password generator. An ‘abbrase’ is one of the passwords it produces. It generates a password and a phrase like “phyeigdolrejutt” and “physical eight dollars rejected utterly”. Creating secure passwords is easy. Remembering them is hard. Pwgen makes them memorable though pronounceability. XKCD suggests using a series of random common words, […]