Uniscan 5.2 is released - vulnerability scanner

Uniscan 5.2 is released - vulnerability scanner Uniscan is a open source vulnerability scanner for Web applications. Uniscan 2.0 is a perl vulnerability scanner for RFI, LFI, RCE, XSS and SQL-injection. features: Identification of system pages through a Web Crawler. Use of threads in the crawler. Control the maximum number of requests the crawler. Control of variation of system pages identified by Web Crawler. Control of file extensions that are ignored. Test of pages found via the GET method. Test...

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FreeFloat FTP Server - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

FreeFloat FTP Server - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Ashfaq Ansari Reported FreeFloat FTP Server - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, whilewriting data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory. This is a special case ofviolation of memory safety.Buffer overflows can be triggered by inputs that are designed to execute code, or alter the way the program...

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Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 BETA Released

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 BETA Released The next stage in the evolution of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner has arrived — WVS 8 BETA! Many of you have been biting their nails in anticipation of this Beta, so sit tight and read on for the next most important stage in the evolution of Acunetix WVS. Version 8 of Web Vulnerability Scanner has been optimized to make life easier at every stage of a security scan. WVS is easier to use for web admins and security analysts alike: enhanced...

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Web App Pentesting - PenTest Magazine

Web App Pentesting - Pentest MagazineThe significance of HTTP and the Web for Advanced Persistent Threats Web Application Security and Penetration Testing Developers are form Wenus, Application Security guys from Mars Pulling legs of Arachni XSS BeeF Metaspolit Exploitation Cross-site request forgery. In-depth analysis First the Security Gate, then the Airplane Download Magazine H...

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Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer

Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has fired his lawyer in favour of one with experience in batting for The Pirate Bay, according to a Swedish news report. Julian Assange has ditched his Swedish legal counsel and lined up a new defence team in readiness for a likely return to the country to face allegations of sexual molestation and rape against two women. Assange has filed a petition with the Stockholm District Court, says the newspaper,...

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PHP Vulnerability Hunter v.1.1.4.6 - Automated fuzz testing tool

PHP Vulnerability Hunter v.1.1.4.6 - Automated fuzz testing tool This is the application that detected almost all of the web application vulnerabilities listed on the advisories page. PHP Vulnerability Hunter is an advanced automated whitebox fuzz testing tool capable of triggering a wide range of exploitable faults in PHP web applications. Minimal configuration is necessary to begin a scan; PHP Vulnerability Hunter doesn’t even need a user specified starting URI. At the core of the PHP Vulnerability...

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Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ?

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ? If you'd rather keep your data private, take heart: disk encryption is a lot harder to break than techno-thriller movies and TV shows make it out to be, to the chagrin of some branches of law enforcement. MrSeb writes with word of a paper titled "The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics" that illustrates just how difficult it is. According to the paper, co-authored by a member of US-CERT. Abstract of Paper is...

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Cotton Candy USB with Dual-Core Computer can turns Any Screen Into an Android Station

Cotton Candy USB with Dual-Core Computer can turns Any Screen Into an Android Station Norwegian company FXI Technologies has been showing a USB stick-sized portable computer prototype, featuring with a dual-core 1.2-GHz CPU, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI-out and a microSD card slot for memory. Codenamed Cotton Candy because its 21 gram weight is the same as a bag of the confection, the tiny PC enables what its inventor calls “Any Screen Computing,” the ability to turn any TV, laptop, phone, tablet,...

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WAFP : Web Application Finger Printer Tool

WAFP : Web Application Finger Printer Tool WAFP is a Web Application Finger Printer written in ruby using a SQLite3 DB. WAFP fetches the files given by the Finger Prints from a webserver andchecks if the checksums of those files are matching to the given checksums from theFinger Prints. This way it is able to detect the detailed version andeven the build number of a Web Application. Sample Scan Result:    wafp.rb --verbose -p phpmyadmin https://phpmyadmin.example.de    VERBOSE:...

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Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked

Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked The official website of the Supreme Court was hacked yesterday.Information technology experts of the court, however, recovered it around 8:00pm. According to the message posted on the site, the hackers identified themselves as "Bangladeshi UnderGround Hacker 3xp1r3 Cyber Army".They, however, claimed that all the data is safe and not being tampered with or deleted."Some other hackers are trying to hack Bangladeshi sites!! And delete all the data !! (sic),"...

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Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo

Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo Another Android Feature Exploited, Funny that Android facial recognition based unlocking can be fooled with photo . Check out the video below, courtesy of Malaysia’s SoyaCincau : He said "While some of you think that it is a trick and I had set the Galaxy Nexus up to recognise the picture, I assure you that the device was set up to recognise my face. I have a few people there watching me do the video and if any one...

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Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers

Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers Anonymous Hackers take down the The Muslim Brotherhood websites. The hacking group had made an announcement Tuesday in which they threatened to launch “Operation Brotherhood Takedown,” on all Brotherhood sites at 8pm on Friday, 11 November. According to a video released by them on youtube as shown above. They claim to taken down following sites: As of 2:24 PM EST, ikhwanonline.com IS DOWN. As of 2:26...

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PwnieExpress : Pentesting suite for the Nokia N900

PwnieExpress : Pentesting suite for the Nokia N900 PwnieExpress providing one of the best Pentesting suite for the Nokia N900 .It  Includes Aircrack, Metasploit, Kismet, GrimWEPa, SET, Fasttrack, Ettercap, nmap, and more, Custom pentesting screen with shortcuts to macchanger, injection on/off, etc. Built-in wireless card supports packet injection, monitor mode, and promiscuous mode also available : Try...

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Bizztrust : The Most Secure Android Phone

Bizztrust : The Most Secure Android Phone With companies these days justifiably concerned about the security of the mobile devices provided to their workforce, many workers find themselves carrying around two mobile phones - one for personal use and another for business. Sure, mobile phones aren't the huge pocket-stretching devices they once were but for the sake of convenience, one is most definitely better than two. A new German project makes Android phones significantly more secure for business...

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DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ?

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ? Article by : Nidhi Rastogi is a Cyber security professional based in New York. Article shared from THE HACKER NEWS magazine - November Edition. You can download Complete Magazine here. Barely a year into discovering Stuxnet, the world recently saw its powerful variant in the form of Duqu. It is believed that a Hungarian blogger was the first to have a tryst with the virus in early September at an ISP hosting service. Why it is important: Duqu has...

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Sqlninja 0.2.6 is now available

Sqlninja 0.2.6 is now available Sqlninja’s goal is to exploit SQL injection vulnerabilities on web applications that use Microsoft SQL Server as back end. It is released under the GPLv3.There are a lot of other SQL injection tools out there but sqlninja, instead of extracting the data, focuses on getting an interactive shell on the remote DB server and using it as a foothold in the target network.  Here’s what it does:Fingerprint of the remote SQL Server (version, user performing the queries,...

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Brazil ISP servers under Massive DNS poisoning attacks

Brazil ISP servers under Massive DNS poisoning attacks Kaspersky Lab expert Fabio Assolini Report that A massive DNS cache poisoning attack attempting to infect users trying to access popular websites is currently under way in Brazil. Several large ISPs in the highly connected country have been affected by the attack, and police have made at least one arrest in connection with the operation. Attackers have been able to poison the DNS cache records for several major Web sites at some...

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China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps Mobile malware is rising, and there have been explosions in the world of viruses and Trojans. Virus makers are now targeting mobile platforms- thanks to their growing popularity. If we take the statistics from last 6 months, the chances of Android smart phones to be infected have doubled. A new report by TrendMicro says that "China is the birth place for most of malicious Android applications" . Even Android OS is also becoming more...

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The Hacker News arrived on Google+ Pages

The Hacker News arrived on Google+ Pages Google has finally added Google+ Pages feature in their social network which allow brands, products, companies, businesses, places, groups, and everyone else to establish a presence on the service. We've gone ahead and set up our very own 'The Hacker News' Google+ page for all of our Readers . How you can help us to Grow Us ? Use "Share This Page" button available below the profile picture to share THN page with your friends and Family. Add...

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Virtual Machine for Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E) Released

Virtual Machine for Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E) Released The Honeynet Project release of the Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E.) Virtual Machine. Do you need to analyze a piece of Android malware, but dont have all your analysis tools at hand? The Android Reverse Engineering (A.R.E.) Virtual Machine, put together by Anthony Desnos from our French chapter, is here to help. A.R.E. combines the latest Android malware analysis tools in a readily accessible toolbox. Tools currently found on...

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