This is just a quick note to let you know that I recently put together a Backtrack 5 Installation Script on the BeEF project wiki here. You won’t have to install BeEF by hand on your Backtrack 5 H4x0r server farms and clouds anymore ;).
When you are running a business, you depend on technology, devices and IT services, you need to be aware of several security implications. The greater the level of access to the numerous systems you have in place, the greater the number of security precautions you must take to protect each and every part of the …
Let’s imagine the following fictional scenario: You are operating on a shoe string security budget. An old Windows XP SP0 machine was compromised and you are tasked with acquiring a raw hard drive image so that you can perform some forensics on that image later on. To keep things simple we are leaving memory forensics …
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 …
In a recent pen test, after compromising the host machine I faced the fact that LM hashes were disabled, and the passwords in use were relatively strong so the normal dictionary and brute-force attacks would not work straightaway. Because it was a long pen test, I had an idea: I could use the meterpreter key …
When Testing for HTTP Methods and XST a common vulnerability to find is XST. When you manually verify that this vulnerability is truly present (i.e. not a tool false positive) you can use tools like netcat but sometimes the web server is using SSL and netcat will not work straightaway. You can get around this …
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 …
In case you missed it, I put together a blog post last week on the OWASP AppSec EU Security Conference in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland with slides, pictures and experience Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: “I would recommend to store at least half a …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched Vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Cloud Security Crytography Privacy Security FAIL General Outrageous Funny / Hilarious Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Document claims LulzSec has obtained 2011 UK Census records [www.v3.co.uk] Infamous hacking group LulzSec is claiming to have obtained the entire 2011 …
Update 02/07/2011: Arian Evans recently clarified he is really “Arian Evans” and not “Adrian Lane”, so I fixed that in the post below. Arian Evans gave the talk on the Six Application Security Metrics. Apologies for confusing the names :). Update 23/06/2011: Dreyer just clarified to me that int3pids were really third and not first …
