Category Archives: hardware & software

Assault on PHP Applications

This is a must read if you’re a pen tester or PHP developer.  Some great things on PHP security including file include, upload vulnerabilities, command execution, and of course SQL injection… Assault on PHP Applications Blackhat Forums Author: Aelphaeis Mangarae … Continue reading

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Setting up Windows Honey Pot Shares

I recently setup a honeypot share on a Windows server.  I put some very “interesting” files and directories in there (financial information, PII etc) and then enabled audit logging in Windows.  There’s a very powerful but mostly unknown Windows tool … Continue reading

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Reduce ssh brute force attempts…

In case you’re still running sshd on port 22 (which you should change!) you’re probably getting hammered with brute force attempts.  Take a peak at /var/log/secure or /var/log/wtmp or the “last” command and have a looksy. There’s a great little application … Continue reading

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Penetration Testing & Capture the Flag

Penetration Testing Nowadays penetration testing is where it’s at.  Whether trying to learn security, becoming a white hat, or consulting it’s a must have skill.  However, it can be intimidating on where to start.  Besides picking up books the next … Continue reading

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Malware Analyzers Part deuce

Several weeks ago I posted about different free malware analyzers (sandbox environments).  I’ve stumbled across another free tool from Mandiant which is their Red Curtain offering. Red Curtain will scan a given local directory or drive and analyze each file … Continue reading

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Google Hacking

Google hacking has been around for a while but unfortunately it is still very relevant.  Basically because the Google crawler is so powerful you can use this to your advantage to discover sensitive data.  You can find password files as … Continue reading

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UNetbootin: Live CDs to thumb drives made easy

I’ve always found it a major pain to correctly install a Live CD on a thumb drive.  You want to do this because of SPEED.  Have you tried running Backtrack from a thumb drive?  Load times are incredible and there’s … Continue reading

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Unlock iPhone: Run unofficial applications

I just came across these steps in Wired to unlock your iPhone: 1. Update iTunes and Iphone app installe 2. Download Pwnage Tool 3. Select “simple mode” and install Cydia *If anything goes wrong you can reverse the process using … Continue reading

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Google Wave

At the recent Google I/O conference in San Francisco the next big Google project was announced, Google Wave.  Imagine being able to instant message and collaborate with multiple people in real time.  Now chat rooms have been around for a … Continue reading

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SSL Strip

There’s a nice tool that will perform SSL man in the middle attacks.  In layman’s terms this means when this tool is run on a gateway it will create a clear text HTTP stream on the network (that you can … Continue reading

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