[Watcher v1.5.6] Web Security Testing Tool and Passive Vulnerability Scanner

Watcher is a runtime passive-analysis tool for HTTP-based Web applications. Being passive means it won't damage production systems, it's completely safe to use in Cloud computing, shared hosting, and dedicated hosting environments. Watcher detects Web-application security issues as well as...

UbnHD2 : Ubuntu based Pentesting OS for Mobiles

Most of the crazy readers always demand for some solution to turn their Android Smartphone into a Hacking Machine. There are various solutions, like installing some penetration testing android based tools like ANTI, dSploit, FaceNiff etc and also Installing ARM version of Backtrack OS. Today I...

Layton Helpbox 4.4.0 Authorization Bypass

Layton Helpbox 4.4.0 Authorisation Bypass Vulnerability by Joseph Sheridan Summary Layton Technologies Helpbox product version 4.4.0 is vulnerable to an authorisation bypass vulnerability. CVE number: CVE-2012-4975 Impact: Medium Vendor homepage: http://www.laytontechnology.com Vendor notified:...

ARMY : USB Drive responsible for over 70 percent of Cyber Security Breaches

A ban on the use of pen drives has not been able to safeguard cyber security as it has now been labeled as a major threat in defence forces, the Army officials said. The use of pen drives as an easy-to-carry storage device has increased in the recent past and internal reports have confirmed that...

Portable Multi-boot Security Suite: Katana

Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite which brings together many of today’s best security distributions and portable applications to run off a single Flash Drive. It includes distributions which focus on Pen-Testing, Auditing, Forensics, System Recovery, Network Analysis, and Malware...

Thinksns microblogging system injection vulnerability a gold-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Author: Liuker Blog: www.2bhack.net I recently nothing to do Don't ask me how the audit of the color of the pen don't know what is audit? Visually it is a few friends have seen me audit the code time to give them a screenshot Just get some. In a few days and then engage in several section of the...

Mutillidae 2.1.17 : Born to be Hacked

Mutillidae 2.1.17 : Born to be Hacked A few days ago an update "Mutillidae" version 2.1.17 was released. Mutillidae is a free, open source web application provided to allow security enthusiest to pen-test and hack a web application. Mutillidae can be installed on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows 7...

roundcube -- XSS vulnerability

RoundCube development Team reports: We just published a new release which fixes a recently reported XSS vulnerability as an update to the stable 0.5 branch. Please update your installations with this new version or patch them with the fix which is also published in the downloads section or our...

Calling Mark Twain: Pseudonyms on G+

If you want to hide behind a fake name, don’t count on Google+ to be your “phony me” social network. As Threatpost has reported, the new social network doesn’t truck with fake identities – a position that’s quite similar to the one taken by Facebook. The company has also taken a hard stand on...

Fox Sitcom Will Depict Pen Testing Firm

Hollywood is taking another crack at hacker culture – this time with a decidedly contemporary twist: a sitcom that will depict the zany doings of a group of security geeks who work as corporate penetration testers. The new show, breakingin, is scheduled to debut on April 6 and will star Christian...

Watcher 1.4.1 - latest version download

"Watcher is a runtime passive-analysis tool for HTTP-based Web applications. Being passive means it won't damage production systems, it's completely safe to use in Cloud computing, shared hosting, and dedicated hosting environments. Watcher detects Web-application security issues as well as...

Social Engineering Attacks Prove Failure of User Education

BOSTON — A prominent security consultant is urging a rethink of the way businesses handle user education and awareness, warning that the way attackers have latched on to social engineering techniques makes it difficult to cope with hacker attacks. During a presentation at the SOURCE conference...

Top 20 'Critical Controls' from SANS Institute

The SANS Institute has released critical security controls for cyber defense agreed to by a consortium of agencies including: “NSA, US Cert, DoD, DoD JTF-GNO, the Department of Energy Nuclear Laboratories, Department of State, DoD Cyber Crime Center plus the top commercial forensics experts and p...

SMB2 Exploit Fitted into Metasploit; Attacks Likely

Fully functional exploit code for the still unpatched Windows SMB v2 vulnerability has been released to the public domain via the freely available Metasploit point-and-click attack tool, raising the likelihood for remote in-the-wild code execution attacks. The exploit, created and released by...

MicroSolved Explains Credit Union Pen Test

Officials at MicroSolved, the security services company that was involved in the penetration test that set off concerns about malware-infected CDs being sent to credit unions, have posted a detailed explanation of the technique and how it turned into a national news story. In short, the technique...

CVE-2008-6900

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in "Add Pen/Author Name" feature in addpen.php in AvailScript Article Script allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in photos/...

Unrestricted file upload

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in "Add Pen/Author Name" feature in addpen.php in AvailScript Article Script allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in photos/...

CVE-2008-6900

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in "Add Pen/Author Name" feature in addpen.php in AvailScript Article Script allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in photos/...

CodeIgniter Global XSS Filtering Bypass Vulnerability

======================================== CodeIgniter Global XSS Filtering Bypass Vulnerability ======================================== Discovered by: Aung Khant, YGN Ethical Hacker Group, Myanmar http://yehg.net/ believe in full disclosure Product : CodeIgniter http://www.codeigniter.com Product...

Mandriva Update for util-linux MDKSA-2007:053 (util-linux)

Check for the Version of util-linux OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for util-linux MDKSA-2007:053 util-linux Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modif...