OWASP Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework v5

OWASP Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework is an advanced Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability detection and exploitation framework. It provides Zero False Positive scan results with its unique Triple Browser Engine Trident, WebKit, and Gecko embedded scanner. It is claimed to have the world’s 2nd...

Former NSA Officials Detail Failures of Agency Programs in Letter to Obama

In the weeks and months leading up to 9/11, the National Security Agency had been working on a new information-gathering and analysis system known as THINTHREAD, a system that was built in-house and was meant to replace the uncountable number of stand-alone collection systems and attendant...

Windows Gather Enum User MUICache

This module gathers information about the files and file paths that logged on users have executed on the system. It also will check if the file still exists on the system. This information is gathered by using information stored under the MUICache registry key. If the user is logged in when the...

[TheHarvester v2.2] The Information Gathering Suite

The objective of this program is to gather emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers and SHODAN computer database. This tool is intended to help Penetration testers in the early stages of the penetration te...

NSA Bulk Telephony Metadata Collection Program Legal

A federal court today shot down a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU to the National Security Agency’s bulk phone metadata collection program, determining that the spy agency’s actions are legal. The ruling by U.S. District Court judge William Pauley contradicts a Dec. 16 D.C...

Fedora 18 : lynis-1.3.6-1.fc18 (2013-22758)

1.3.6 2013-12-03 New : - Support for the dntpd time daemon - New Apache test for modules HTTP-6632 - Apache test for modevasive HTTP-6640 - Apache test for modqos HTTP-6641 - Apache test for modspamhaus HTTP-6642 - Apache test for ModSecurity HTTP-6643 - Check for installed package audit tool...

Privacy, Human Rights Groups Form New Anti-Surveillance Coalition

A large group of privacy and digital rights organizations has put together a new effort to urge politicians to curtail the mass surveillance operations that have been exposed in the last few months. The new coalition has developed a set of 13 principles for governments to follow in their...

[FoxOne] Free OSINT Tool - Server Reconnaissance Scanner

FoxOne is a free OSINT tool, described by the author th3j35t3r as a Non-Invasive and Non-Detectable Server Reconnaissance Scanner. Bypassing API limitations and currently detecting 6500+ vulnerable server paths/files – without ever touching the target server. Very good for getting hold of intel o...

Major Companies Fall Victim to Social Engineering

The annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest held during DEF CON may seem on the surface to be just an opportunity for pen-testers and hackers to flex their pretexting muscles. But if you’re one of the 10 major technology, manufacturing and critical infrastructure organizations targeted...

Snoopy Project mobile tracking and intelligence grows up

A year ago, the Snoopy Project was a neat research initiative that packaged a number of existing technologies into a framework to profile and track mobile devices. After a summer of Snowden revelations, something like Snoopy takes on a whole new meaning. Snoopy devices, called drones by researche...

[LinEnum v0.2] Automating local information gathering tasks on Linux hosts

LinEnum is a shell script that automates local information gathering tasks on Linux hosts.Over 65 checks are performed, obtaining anything from kernel information to locating possible escalation points such as potentially useful SUID/GUID files and Sudo/rhost mis-configurations etc. Additionally,...

The Chilling Effect of the NSA Surveillance Leaks

BERLIN–In this city, one of the great world capitals, history is never far away. It permeates every aspect of daily life, and the German people are quite proud of much of that history. But there were dark days here too, and not so long ago, when the Stasi, the East German secret police, operated ...

NSA Crypto Questions Resemble a 'Hall of Mirrors'

There’s been no shortage of discussion and debate in recent week about the possibility that the NSA has intentionally weakened some cryptographic algorithms and cipher suites in order to give it an advantage in its intelligence-gathering operations. If you subscribe to the worst-case scenario lin...

IE Zero Day Used in Targeted Attacks Against Japanese Firms

Attackers exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser have compromised several popular local Japanese media outlets and have infected systems belonging to government, high tech and manufacturing organizations in Japan. Researchers at FireEye said the attacks appea...

The Sky is Not Falling--It's Fallen

It’s no fun being a cynic, thinking that everything is bad and getting worse. It’s easy–especially in the security community–but it’s not fun. But, in light of the latest in the interminable string of revelations about the NSA’s efforts to eat away at the foundation of the security industry, the...

Arkeia Appliance Detection

The script sends a connection request to the Arkeia Appliance and attempts to extract the version number from the reply. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN, Contract Shows

The U.S. government–particularly the National Security Agency–are often regarded as having advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities. But that doesn’t mean that they’re above bringing in a little outside help when it’s needed. A newly public contract shows that the NSA last year bought a...

Fedora Update for cacti FEDORA-2013-15444

Check for the Version of cacti OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for cacti FEDORA-2013-15444 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

[SpiderFoot v2.0.4] Footprinting tool

SpiderFoot is a free, open-source footprinting tool, enabling you to perform various scans against a given domain name in order to obtain information such as sub-domains, e-mail addresses, owned netblocks, web server versions and so on. The main objective of SpiderFoot is to automate the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: cacti-0.8.8b-2.fc19

Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain graphs, data sources, and round robin archives in a database, Cacti also...