Cain & Abel v4.9.35 Released
on Nov 18, 2009 in Hacking Tools Password Hacking BruteForce Cracker Hacktools Password Cracker Passwords Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recordin...

Metasploit Framework 3.3 Released
on Nov 18, 2009 in Exploits Hacking Tools Penetration Testing Security Tools Hacktools Metasploit Security The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration tests, system administrators to verify patch installations, product vendors to...

Origami – Parse, Analyze, Forge PDF Documents
on Oct 30, 2009 in Hacking Tools Hacktools Origami PDF Hacking Origami is a Ruby framework designed to parse, analyze, and forge PDF documents. This is NOT a PDF rendering library. It aims at providing a scripting tool to generate and analyze malicious PDF files. As well, it can be used to create on-the-fly cust...

Computer/Network Security Consultant Ranked 8th Best Job in US
on Oct 10, 2009 in Stories/News Jobs News Security Professional Stories 8. Computer/Network Security Consultant Median salary (experienced): $99,700 Top pay: $152,000 Job growth (10-year forecast): 27% Sector: Information Technology What they do: Protect computer systems and networks against hackers, spyware, and viruses...

Samhain – Host-Based Intrusion Detection System
on Oct 9, 2009 in Intrusion Detection Security Tools HIDS IDS Security The Samhain open source host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) provides file integrity checking and logfile monitoring/analysis, as well as rootkit detection, port monitoring, detection of rogue SUID executables, and hidden processes. It has be...

Botnet caught red handed stealing from Google, Yahoo! and Bing
on Oct 9, 2009 in Stories/News Botnet News Stories A recently discovered botnet has been caught siphoning ad revenue away from Google, Yahoo! and Bing and funneling it to smaller networks. According to researchers at Click Forensics, computers that are part of the so-called Bahama Botnet are infected...

Reddit Hit by XSS Worm
on Sep 30, 2009 in Stories/News Vulnerabilities News Reddit Hacking Worm XSS XSS Worm Reddit (reddit.com) is a social news website, and it’s much better than Digg or Slashdot. However, it got hit today by a XSS worm that was spreading via comments on the site. It all started with a user called, suitably enough, xssfinder. His ac...

“Chat-in-the-Middle” Phishing Attack via Bogus Live-Chat Support
on Sep 18, 2009 in Privacy Attacks Stories/News Chat In The Middle Man In The Middle News Phishing Stories A new, unique type of phishing attack targeted against online banking customers was recently discovered by the RSA FraudAction Research Lab. RSA has coined this as a “Chat-in-the-Middle” phishing attack and it is first executed through ro...

Haraldscan – Bluetooth discovery scanner
on Sep 10, 2009 in Hacking Tools Information Gathering Wireless Hacking Bluetooth Bluetooth Hacking Hacktools Scanner The scanner will be able to determine Major and Minor device class of device, as well as attempt to resolve the device’s MAC address to the largest known Bluetooth MAC address Vendor list. The goal of this project is to obtain as many MAC addre...

mysqloit – SQL Injection Takeover Tool
on Sep 5, 2009 in Database Hacking Hacking Tools Hacktools MySQL Injection SQL Injection MySqloit is a SQL Injection takeover tool focused on LAMP (Linux, Apache,MySql,PHP) and WAMP (Linux, Apache,MySql,PHP) platforms. It has the ability to upload and execute metasploit shellcodes through the MySql SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Attacker...