hardcidr

hardCIDR Background A Linux Bash script to discover the netblocks, or ranges, in CIDR notation owned by the target organization during the intelligence gathering phase of a penetration test. This information is maintained by the five Regional Internet Registries RIRs: ARIN North America RIPE...

python: incorrect IPv4 and IPv6 private ranges

A flaw was found in Python. The ipaddress module contained incorrect information about whether certain IPv4 and IPv6 addresses were designated as “globally reachable” or “private”. Due to this issue, it is possible that values will not be returned in accordance with the latest information from th...

The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly...

ICANN Postpones Scheduled DNS Crypto Key Rollover

ICANN, the overseer of the Internet’s namespace, announced this week that it was postponing a scheduled change to the cryptographic key that protects the Domain Name System. ICANN said in a statement that the change was to occur on Oct. 11, but new data indicates that a “significant number” of...

Nmap NSE net: whois

Queries the WHOIS services of Regional Internet Registries RIR and attempts to retrieve information about the IP Address Assignment which contains the Target IP Address. In using this script your IP address will be sent to iana.org. Additionally your address and the address of the target of the...

Nmap NSE: WHOIS

This script queries the WHOIS services of Regional Internet Registries RIR and attempts to retrieve information about the IP Address Assignment which contains the Target IP Address. This is a wrapper on the Nmap Security Scanner's http://nmap.org whois.nse. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the...