[ad] This is an interesting development in router security, Cisco bugs have been popping up now and then – not that often – but usually when they do they are quite serious. The problem with them was you needed so many variations unless you were just targeting one specific router, with that specific version of […]
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p0f – Advanced Passive OS Fingerprinting Tool
[ad] Ah can’t believe I haven’t posted about this one before, one of my favourite tools! It was a big breakthrough to have a passive OS-fingerprinting tool after relying on Nmap and Xprobe2 for the longest time. OS fingerprinting is a very important part of a pen-test during the information gathering stage. P0f v2 is […]
NetStumbler – Windows Freeware to Detects Insecure Wireless Networks
[ad] Another one from the old school, this tool has been around forever since way before wardriving was fashionable and when people still used pringles cans for antenna boosting. It’s a favourite amongst Windows users, although it can’t do any real hacking (like breaking a WEP key) – it’s extremely fast and effecient in the […]
PorkBind v1.3 – Nameserver (DNS) Security Scanner
[ad] This program retrieves version information for the nameservers of a domain and produces a report that describes possible vulnerabilities of each. Vulnerability information is configurable through a configuration file; the default is porkbind.conf. Each nameserver is tested for recursive queries and zone transfers. The code is parallelized with libpthread. Changes for v1.3 Wrote in-a-bind […]
raWPacket HeX – Network Security Monitoring & Analysis LiveCD
[ad] HeX is a project aimed at the NSM (Network Security Monitoring) community for use by network security analysts. The developers believe that simplicity and analysis work flow logic must be enhanced and emphasized through-out the process of designing this liveCD. Not only have they carefully chosen all the necessary applications and tools to be […]