[ad] Finally it’s out of BETA, Metasploit Framework Version 3.0 has been released and it’s a lot more Windows friendly. The Metasploit Framework (“Metasploit”) is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. Version 3.0 contains 177 exploits, 104 payloads, 17 encoders, and 3 nop modules. Additionally, 30 auxiliary modules are included that perform […]
Agnitum Outpost Firewall PRO Review
[ad] Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro is a software based firewall I respect a lot, and used to actually use…It used to be fairly light weight, secure and had some good features the other firewalls at the time didn’t have (system file integrity checking and so on). But nowadays with NAT routers, the need for desktop […]
FireCAT – Firefox Catalog of Auditing Tools
[ad] After the web 2.0 hacking with firefox and its plugins article I wrote some months ago, recently I found a new way to transform firefox in the ultimate pen-testing tool… actually it has been lying in my inbox for days… …new Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. We called […]
JBroFuzz 0.5 from OWASP – Stateless Network Protocol Fuzzer
[ad] OWASP JBroFuzz is a stateless network protocol fuzzer that emerged from the needs of penetration testing. Written in Java, it allows for the identification of certain classess of security vulnerabilities, by means of creating malformed data and having the network protocol in question consume the data. The purpose of this application is to provide […]
Hackers Attack Root Servers and Slow Internet Key Traffic
[ad] Well at least it shows the Internet is not very susceptible to such attacks due to its distributed nature, even if the root nameservers are down, the DNS system still functions. This was a pretty heavy attack though and the most significant in the past 5 years or so, someone testing their ego I […]