Away from the Flash, away from the dangerous: from Flash 0day vulnerability disclosure to the integrated penetration tools package, only used 4-day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

6 on 2 7 January, a penetration testing Toolkit Magnitude has been successfully Adobe Flash Player 0day vulnerability, and this time only in the Adobe release fix vulnerabilities patch after four days, kit software the author recently become the fastest to achieve the use of the Flash Player...

New Chrome Extension Blocks BeEF Attacks

An engineer has devised a new way to help combat BeEF, or browser exploit framework attacks. The tool, a Chrome extension, detects and blocks hooks from BeEF–an exploit tool similar to Metasploit–that uses JavaScript to control browsers. Routinely used by researchers, pen testers, and attackers,...

Facebook Hires Ex-Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos

Facebook has hired away the top security executive at Yahoo, Alex Stamos, to become the company’s new CSO. Stamos said Wednesday that he is joining Facebook because he believes the company is in the best position to address some of the large security challenges facing users and companies right no...

Is penetration testing required for HIPAA compliance?

In this blog post were going to focus our discussion on the technical requirement part of this standard. The evaluation is supposed to establish the extent to which a covered entitys or business associates security policies and procedures meet the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule. A questi...

Security CheatSheets - A collection of cheatsheets for various infosec tools and topics

These security cheatsheets are part of a project for the Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing course offered at the University of Florida. Expanding on the default set of cheatsheets, the purpose of these cheatsheets are to aid penetration testers/CTF participants/security enthusiasts in...

icmpsh - Simple Reverse ICMP Shell

Sometimes, network administrators make the penetration tester's life harder. Some of them do use firewalls for what they are meant to, surprisingly! Allowing traffic only onto known machines, ports and services ingress filtering and setting strong egress access control lists is one of these cases...

Python for Security Professionals: Free IT Security Training

Python is an excellent programming language that has rapidly become popular among Hackers, Reverse engineers, software testers, Forensic analyst and Penetration testers. Python is a simple object-oriented and minimalistic language that is easy to learn for novice programmers as well as experience...

WAIDPS - Wireless Auditing, Intrusion Detection & Prevention System

WAIDPS is an open source wireless swissknife written in Python and work on Linux environment. This is a multipurpose tools designed for audit penetration testing networks, detect wireless intrusion WEP/WPA/WPS attacks and also intrusion prevention stopping station from associating to access point...

PentestBox - Portable Penetration Testing Distribution for Windows Environments

PentestBox is not like other Penetration Testing Distributions which runs on virtual machines. It is created because more than 50% of penetration testing distributions users uses windows. So it provides an efficient platform for Penetration Testing on windows platform. Check out demo video: Easy ...

Portable Penetration Testing Distribution for Windows: PentestBox

PentestBox is not like other Penetration Testing Distributions which runs on virtual machines. It is created because more than 70% of penetration testing distributions users uses windows and provides an efficient platform for Penetration Testing on windows. It provides all security tools as a...

PyPhisher - A Simple Python Tool for Phishing

If you are looking to make a phishing testing or demonstration you can check PyPhisher. This tool was created for the purpose of phishing during a penetration test. This tool is python based that provide user a way to send emails with a customized template that he design. you can have an html...

New Release: Kali Linux for Docker — Deploy and Play!

The Developers of one of the most advanced open source operating system for penetration testing called 'KALI Linux' have made the operating system available for Docker-addicted system administrators. But, What’s Docker? Docker is a new open-source container technology, released in June 2014, that...

WS-Attacker - Modular Framework for Web Services Penetration Testing

XML-based SOAP Web Services are a widely used technology, which allows the users to execute remote operations and transport arbitrary data. It is currently adapted in Service Oriented Architectures, cloud interfaces, management of federated identities, eGovernment, or millitary services. The wide...

Proposed U.S. Wassenaar Rules on Intrusion Software

Two things worth noting from yesterday’s unveiling of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s proposed Wassenaar rules for the U.S. that weren’t so overt: a The U.S. generally leads the way in implementing Wassenaar changes, and this time it’s been beaten by the EU by almost 18 months; and b reques...

SAP MII - Encryption Downgrade vulnerability

Application: SAP MII Vendor URL: http://www.sap.com Bugs: Cryptographic issues Reported: 05.09.2015 Vendor response: 06.09.2015 Date of Public Advisory: 20.11.2015 Reference: SAP Security Note 2240274 Author: Mathieu GELI ERPScan VULNERABILITY INFORMATION Class: Cryptographic issues Impact: readi...

Web Application Security Scanner Framework: Arachni

Arachni is a feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of modern web applications. It is free, with its source code public and available for review. It is multi-platform, supporting all major operating...

SAP NetWeaver 7.4 - XXE

Application: SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.4 Vendor URL: http://www.sap.com Bugs: XML eXternal Entity Reported: 16.04.2015 Vendor response: 17.04.2015 Date of Public Advisory: 11.08.2015 Reference: SAP Security Note 2168485 Authors: Roman Bezhan ERPScan VULNERABILITY INFORMATION Class: XML External Enti...

OWASP ZAP 2.4.0 - Penetration Testing Tool for Testing Web Applications

ZAP is an OWASP Flagship project, and is currently the most active open source web application security tool. For a quick introduction to the new release see this video: Some of the most significant changes include: ‘Attack’ Mode A new ‘attack’ mode has been added that means that applications tha...

Cybrary Offers Free Online Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security Training

I frequently receive emails and messages on how to hack my friend’s Facebook account, how to become a hacker, how to penetrate networks, how to break into computers, and how to compromise routers? These are some of the most frequent queries I came across, and in this article I’ll attempt to answe...

Maligno v2.0 - Metasploit Payload Server

Maligno is an open source penetration testing tool written in Python that serves Metasploit payloads. It generates shellcode with msfvenom and transmits it over HTTP or HTTPS. The shellcode is encrypted with AES and encoded prior to transmission. Maligno also comes with a client tool, which...