Unleashing the power of metadata with FOCA Free

Intro The terrific guys at informática64 put together the FOCA tool (for mostly automated metadata extraction in the free version) quite a while ago and they just keep improving it continously. The Pro version is just 100€ + VAT and you get a lesson from Chema Alonso along the way so worth considering too :). …

Blog Spam Analysis Series: CISSP Spam surprise

Update 08/08/2011: Added link to further evidence of Shon Harris spamming via blog comments from ittraining blog at the bottom of the post. I have maintained this blog for some time. I appreciate comments but sometimes there is spam that unfortunately gets in: In particular, I was interested in the CISSP spam: The CISSP post …

Testing for SSL-TLS (OWASP-CM-001)

A nice tool for SSL cipher testing is this Perl script: ssl-cipher-check.pl, however, in Backtrack and also on other distros you may get this error the first time you run it: ssl-cipher-check.pl -vw my.exampledomain.com 443 … ERROR: Unable to find /usr/bin/gnutls-cli-debug. Please install the gnutls-devel package To avoid that simply install the missing package as …

Registering and using Nessus in Backtrack 5

Unlike previous Backtrack versions Nessus now comes installed by default on Backtrack 5. This is very cool because all that is left for you is to activate Nessus! If that was not enough, when you upgrade Backtrack the instructions to register are just shown to you: …. root@bt:~# apt-get upgrade … – Please run /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser …