Saturday, February 21st, 2009
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, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Software | 1 Comment
Friday, February 20th, 2009
A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 and earlier versions. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this issue is being exploited.
Adobe is planning to release ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Software | 1 Comment
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
For those of you new to Fast-Track, Fast-Track is a python based open-source project aimed at helping Penetration Testers in an effort to identify, exploit, and further penetrate a network. Fast-Track was originally conceived when David Kennedy was on a penetration test and found that there was generally a lack ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Linux, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Microsoft warned last week that it would be easy for cybercriminals to build new attacks using bugs it patched in the Internet Explorer browser; now that prediction has come true.
On Tuesday, security vendor Trend Micro said that it had spotted the first attack taking advantage of one of two flaws ...
Posted in Security, Windows | No Comments
Monday, February 16th, 2009
A posting on the Full Disclosure mailing list has revealed what the FreeBSD Security team call a semi-remote root exploit for the telnetd service in FreeBSD 7, and later. By default, this service is disabled.
To exploit the vulnerability, a maliciously crafted library must be placed on the victim system beforehand, ...
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