[ad] It’s been a while since I’ve seen a tool of this type, back in the heydays of Google Hacking (which became the generic term for information gathering via search engines) there were multiple tools such as Gooscan and Goolag. Binging is a simple tool to query Bing search engine. It will use your Bing […]
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Origami – Parse, Analyze & Forge PDF Documents
[ad] origami is a Ruby framework designed to parse, analyze, and forge PDF documents. This is NOT a PDF rendering library. It aims at providing a scripting tool to generate and analyze malicious PDF files. As well, it can be used to create on-the-fly customized PDFs, or to inject (evil) code into already existing documents. […]
dnsmap 0.22 Released – Subdomain Bruteforcing Tool
[ad] dnsmap is a subdomain bruteforcer for stealth enumeration, you could say something similar to Reverse Raider or DNSenum. Originally released in 2006, dnsmap is mainly meant to be used by pentesters during the information gathering/enumeration phase of infrastructure security assessments. During the enumeration stage, the security consultant would typically discover the target company’s IP […]
Using Twitter for Data Mining and Information Gathering
[ad] We’ve mentioned Twitter a few times lately as it has become a larger and larger part of the social web and the premier ‘micro-blogging’ platform. There was a recent Phishing issue on Twitter and before that Twitter Jacking and a CSRF bug that allowed auto-following. Due to the large update of Twitter, the amount […]
Maltego Download – Data Mining & Information Gathering Tool
Maltego download below, this open source intelligence and forensics application allows for the mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a meaningful way. The tool is used in online investigations for finding relationships between pieces of information from various sources located on the Internet. It uses the idea […]