Unix-privesc-checker is a Unix/Linux User privilege escalation scanner that runs on Unix systems (tested on Solaris 9, HPUX 11, Various Linuxes, FreeBSD 6.2). It tries to find misconfigurations that could allow local unprivileged users to escalate privileges to other users or to access local apps (e.g. databases). It’s similar in some ways to – LinEnum […]
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Posted in: Linux Hacking, Security Software | Add a CommentGraudit is a simple script and signature sets that allows you to find potential security flaws in source code using the GNU utility grep. It’s comparable to other static analysis applications and source code auditing tool sets like RATS, SWAAT and flaw-finder while keeping the technical requirements to a minimum and being very flexible. You […]
Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271) the bug in BASH is causing havoc on the Internet this week, as far as I’m concerned it’s a bit overstated – seriously how many people are still using cgi scripts? None I hope. I do suspect though a lot of shared hosts might get owned by this as most commercial control panel […]
Everybody has a favorite shell; not so many under Windows as there are under Linux, but anyway… As most will tell you there favorite shell under Linux would be bash, as under Windows not really having what to chose from they would say cmd.exe (ok, bash can be used under Windows via cygwin, if I […]
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