So Facebook has launched ThreatExchange, a social network for information security intelligence and cyberthreat sharing, how apt. They have signed up some fairly heavyweight partners from the get go with Bitly, Dropbox, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and Yahoo! being involved initially. With those kind of names, it’s a sure bet more people will jump on the […]
Countermeasures
Acunetix OVS Review (Online Vulnerability Scanner)
Introduction It’s been a while since we’ve looked at any Acunetix products in depth, they’ve always had a solid Web Vulnerability Scanner as we found in our reviews of Acunetix WVS 6 and Acunetix WVS 7. Version 9.5 of the Web Vulnerability Scanner was released earlier this year and late last year Acunetix also announced […]
isowall – Completely Isolate A Device From The Local Network
Isowall is a mini-firewall that allows you to completely isolate a device from the local network. This is for allowing infected machines Internet access, but without endangering the local network. Building This project depends upon libpcap, and of course a C compiler. On Debian, the following should work:
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# apt-get install git gcc make libpcap-dev # git clone https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/isowall # cd isowall # make |
This will put the binary isowall […]
ThreadFix – Vulnerability Aggregation & Management System
ThreadFix is a software vulnerability aggregation and management system that reduces the time it takes to fix software vulnerabilities. ThreadFix imports the results from dynamic, static and manual testing to provide a centralized view of software security defects across development teams and applications. The system allows companies to correlate testing results and streamline software remediation […]
StegExpose – Steganalysis Tool For Detecting Steganography In Images
StegExpose is a steganalysis tool specialized in detecting steganography in lossless images such as PNG and BMP (LSB – least significant bit type). It has a command line interface and is designed to analyse images in bulk while providing reporting capabilities and customization which is comprehensible for non forensic experts. Steganography is the art or […]