[ad] From now on we will be having a commenter of the month competition here at Darknet to encourage quality comments and discussion. We hope to get more interactive here and we will be giving out prizes sponsored by GFI such as PSP’s iPods and other cool stuff bundled with goodies from GFI such as […]
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Recent Down-time at Darknet
[ad] Apologies for the recent down-time at Darknet, the longest we’ve had so far I think. The disk-array crashed completely, hardware fault, so rebuilding and recovering the data from the bad disk, then restoring everything was a fairly long process. The site was back up quite early but the database inaccessible due to the taxing […]
Why Blurring or Mosaicing Important Information is a BAD Idea
[ad] I saw a pretty interesting article a few days attempting to reverse engineer the mosaic tool used often online to obscure sensitive or confidential information. The article shows that the mosaic isn’t actually very random, and in a way you can brute force reverse engineer the mosaic to reveal the contents before they were […]
Happy 1 Year Anniversary to the Relaunch of Darknet
[ad] Yes it’s been exactly one year since Darknet was relaunched in it’s new form supported by WordPress and a variety of posts about tools, tutorials and the latest news from the information security and specifically ethical hacking areas. The first post of the new site: Welcome to Darknet – The REBIRTH It’s been an […]
Introducing WHCC – Web Hack Control Center
[ad] Web Hack Control Center is a GUI based web server vulnerability scanner or assessment tool. This application gives you the means to identify which security vulnerabilities exist on your web servers by scanning them for the most popular server exploits. WHCC contains a database of thousands of exploits for a variety of web servers. […]