This Guy Builds A Thor-Like Hammer that Only He Can Pick Up

If you have watched the most recent Avengers movie, then you would be aware of a scene where all the superheroes Iron Man, War Machine, Hawkeye, and Captain America take turns to lift Thor’s hammer but fail. Someone has an explanation, Why? Inspired by Thor's legendary hammer Mjolnir that is not...

Hack Codegen - Facebook Open-Sources Code That Writes Code

Good news for Open Source Lovers! Facebook has open-sourced Hack Codegen – its library for automatically generating Hack code, allowing outside developers to automate some of their routine work while developing large programs. HACK is the Facebook's own programming language designed to build...

SET v6.5 - The Social-Engineer Toolkit “Mr Robot”

The Social-Engineer Toolkit SET was created and written by the founder of TrustedSec. It is an open-source Python-driven tool aimed at penetration testing around Social-Engineering. SET has been presented at large-scale conferences including Blackhat, DerbyCon, Defcon, and ShmooCon. With over two...

Key pinning is ignored when overridable errors are encountered — Mozilla

Mozilla security engineer David Keeler reported that when an overridable error is encountered, such as those for expired certificates or a host name does not match a certificate, pinning checks can be be skipped. This would allow for a user to override a pinned certificate when they should not be...

Google Offers Bug Bounty Vulnerability Research Grants

Google last week announced that it has instituted a program for 2015 in which researchers can receive up to 3,133.70 in grant money for bug hunting. Researchers must apply for the grants, which will be an up-front award that will be paid out before a bug is submitted, Google said. “Researchers’...

WireLurker Mac OS X Malware Shut Down

WireLurker is no more. After causing an overnight sensation, the newly disclosed family of Apple Mac OS X malware capable of also infecting iOS devices has been put to rest. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks confirmed this morning that the command and control infrastructure supporting WireLurker...

New Adobe Flash Exploit Found in Angler, Fiesta EKs

Two notorious exploit kits are already seeding vulnerable websites with exploits for a Flash Player vulnerability that was patched in last week’s Adobe security bulletin. French researcher Kafeine told Threatpost that the most likely scenario is that a skilled coder found a way to reverse-enginee...

Google engineers NeelMehta is how to find heart blood vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Heartbleed computer security vulnerabilityis by Google engineers NeelMehta found, has always been unwilling to accept media to interview him today for the first time to the media to say how he found this serious vulnerability; and why would go the first time to find the vulnerabilities, and he...

Book — Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security

If we talk about old days, a hacker often rely on the natural helpfulness as well as weaknesses of people whom he wanted to target. This tactic to break into a computer network by gaining the confidence of an authorized user and get them to reveal information that compromises the network's securi...

WordPress Cookie handling process can lead to account hijacking-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Write ahead: This is actually a cookie transmission does not use the https problem, the most natural of seemingly unrelated picture, but in front of a burst of lead to ebay account disclosure of intrusion events, also has this vulnerability in the shadow. ps: looks like this hack was a girl...

Facebook Bug Bounty Submissions Dramatically Increase

Facebook today reported a dramatic increase in 2013 submissions to its bug bounty program, and said that despite reports from researchers that it’s becoming difficult to find severe bugs on its various properties, the social network plans to increase rewards for critical bugs. “The volume of...

Twitter Implements Perfect Forward Secrecy

Twitter took another step toward not only securing the privacy of its users’ communication over the social network, but in warding off the prying eyes of government surveillance with the implementation of Perfect Forward Secrecy. The technology thwarts the efforts of anyone who may be collecting...

Gaming Company Settles on Bitcoin Mining Allegations

The ESEA League, an online competitive gaming community, has decided to settle with the state of New Jersey after the acting attorney general there alleged that the gaming community operator infected user-machines with malware designed to mine Bitcoins. The league is owned and managed by E-Sports...

[SET v5.4] The Social-Engineer Toolkit "Walkers"

TrustedSec is proud to announce the release of The Social-Engineer Toolkit SET v5.4 codename “Walkers”. This version has a significant amount of changes, performance upgrades, bug fixes, and efficiency. This blog post will cover some of the major highlights from Java 7 Update 45 and how to get...

19-year-old Argentine Hacker arrested for stealing $50,000 monthly

Argentinian police have arrested a 19-year-old "superhacker" who was making $50,000 a month, working from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, by targeting international money transfer and gambling websites. Police say it took them a year to close in on the teenager, who was part of a six-strong gang whi...

[SpearPhisher] A Simple Phishing Email Generation Tool

SpearPhisher is a simple point and click Windows GUI tool designed for mostly non-technical people who would like to supplement the education and awareness aspect of their information security program. Not only is it useful to non-technical folks, penetration testers may find it handy for sending...

Are you prepared for the BlueHat Challenge?

Today we are kicking off a new challenge so you can showcase your security prowess and, if we can, help you build some more. Our BlueHat Challenge is a series of computer security questions, which increase in difficulty as you progress. Only the rare and talented engineer will be able to finish t...

[SET v5.2] The Social-Engineer Toolkit "Urban Camping"

The Social-Engineer Toolkit SET version 5.2 codename “Urban Camping” has been released. This version adds a complete rewrite of the PowerShell injection techniques within SET and incorporates an automatic process downgrade attack detailed here:...

struts2 latest vulnerability S2-0 1 6, S2-0 1 7 patch programme-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Yesterday struts2 blast a good deal of vulnerability, with know Brother words to say is:“this afternoon the whole Chinese hacking ring like mad started to use this exploit black site, everyone can feel it.” See under the clouds the two days of data: ! Related reports: The disaster: the Chinese...

July 2013 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Updates

A critical Windows kernel vulnerability, publicly disclosed in May by a Google security engineer, will be patched tomorrow when Microsoft releases its July Patch Tuesday security updates. Tavis Ormandy, who has controversially disclosed Windows vulnerability details in the past, made a posting to...