Lynis 2.6.8 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

An Open-Source Pre and Post Callback-Based Framework for macOS Kernel Monitoring: Kemon

If third-party vendors want to add new features to the macOS kernel, such as antivirus capabilities, ransomware blocking, data breach auditing, behavior monitoring and so on, they usually need the support of the system’s exported interfaces. At present, only two known official interfaces are...

Lynis 2.6.7 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

Fluxion - Set Up Fake AP, Fake DNS, And Create Captive Portal To Trick Users Into Giving You Their Password

Fluxion is a security auditing and social-engineering research tool. It is a remake of linset by vk496 with hopefully less bugs and more functionality. The script attempts to retrieve the WPA/WPA2 key from a target access point by means of a social engineering phishing attack. It's compatible wit...

Lynis 2.6.6 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

New ceoAnyone Bug Identified in Multiple Crypto Game Smart Contracts (CVE-2018-11329)

Our vulnerability-scanning system at PeckShield has so far discovered several dangerous smart contract vulnerabilities batchOverflow1, proxyOverflow2, transferFlaw3, ownerAnyone4, multiOverflow5, burnOverflow6. These vulnerabilities typically affect various tokens that may be publicly traded in...

Lynis 2.6.5 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

Search and Dump System Configuration: otseca

The main assumption of creating this tool was easier and faster delivery of commands sets to be performed on customer environments. As a result of such a scan I wanted to get the most useful information about system components that will be subjected to penetration tests and audits at a later time...

Automated Wireless Attack Tool: WiFite

Wifite is a Python script for auditing wireless networks which aims to be the “set it and forget it” wireless auditing tool. What’s new in Wifite 2? Less bugs Cleaner process management. Does not leave processes running in the background the old wifite was bad about this. No longer “one monolithi...

Kicking the Rims – A Guide for Securely Writing and Auditing Chrome Extensions

Table of Contents A Thin Layer of Chrome Extension Security Prior-Art Isolated But Talkative Worlds A Quick Disclaimer Home is Where the manifest.json Is - The Basic Extension Layout The Extension Architecture, Namespace Isolation and the DOM The Same Origin Policy SOP in the Chrome Extension Wor...

Kicking the Rims – A Guide for Securely Writing and Auditing Chrome Extensions

A Thin Layer of Chrome Extension Security Prior-Art Chrome extension security and methodologies for auditing Chrome extensions for vulnerabilities appears to be a topic with shockingly little prior art. Especially when compared to other platforms such as Electron, which have had extension researc...

Wifite 2.1.0 - Automated Wireless Attack Tool

A complete re-write of wifite, a Python script for auditing wireless networks. Wifite runs existing wireless-auditing tools for you. Stop memorizing command arguments & switches! What's new in Wifite2? Less bugs Cleaner process management. Does not leave processes running in the background the ol...

A Cyber Engineering Primer: Automated Tools for Compliance Auditing

Cybersecurity practitioners sometimes forget to define and explain the terms we use during the course of our work. Thus, my colleagues and I have embarked on a series of posts that provide a primer on some of the most important cyber engineering practices. In this post, we will focus on...

May 17, 2018—KB4103713 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2016: May 8, 2018

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Microsoft Windows 10: Manage auditing and security log

This policy setting determines which users can specify object access audit options for individual resources such as files, Active Directory objects, and registry keys. These objects specify their system access control lists SACL. A user who is assigned this user right can also view and clear the...

JShielder - Automates The Process Of Installing All The Necessary Packages To Host A Web Application And Hardening A Linux Server

JSHielder is an Open Source tool developed to help SysAdmin and developers secure there Linux Servers in which they will be deploying any web application or services. This tool automates the process of installing all the necessary packages to host a web application and Hardening a Linux server wi...

Nix Auditor - Nix Audit Made Easier (RHEL, CentOS)

CIS Audit made easier RHEL, CentOS Usage: 1. Make it executable 2. Execute it. 3. https://the-infosec.com/2017/03/20/auditing-linux-unix-os-in-120-seconds-flat/ Nix Auditor 2.0: Change Log: Added color variables BLUE, RED, NC NO COLOR and GREEN on lines 210 - 213 Applied color variables to "passe...

UPDATE: Prowler 2.0 Beta

PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler was about a good NINE months ago. Since then, a lot has changed and hence, this post is about the recently released update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark tool – Prowler 2.0 Beta! This new beta version has lots of improvements which you shall read abou...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: nmap-7.60-8.fc27

Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning determine which hosts are up, many port scanning techniques determine what services the hosts are offering, and TCP/IP fingerprinting remote host operating system identification. Nmap also offers flexible ta...