Phrack Issue #66 – What You Were Waiting For

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

We have the great pleasure to release today another excellent selection of the best Hacking articles this year. An issue full of new exploitation techniques and ground work on writing attack software. This issue has some evil number.. with a lot of evil content. Phrack proves once more how we can, ...

Beware of Repackaged HijackThis Downloads

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

HijackThis is one of the well-known free utilities of Trend Micro that quickly scans a user’s Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware, or other unwanted programs. By itself, it does not determine what is good or bad but it lists registry keys and ...

Six Steps to Stop SQL Injections

Monday, June 8th, 2009

According to IBM ISS X-Force findings, SQL injections last year became the most common Web-based attack technique. Hackers are successful with these attacks largely due to poor coding practices. The following are six ways organizations can start to mitigate the risk from SQL injections. Slideshow: http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Six-Steps-to-Stop-SQL-Injections-129263/

Ophcrack 3.3.0 and Ophcrack LiveCD 2.3.0 Released

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. Ophcrack version 3.3.0 includes support for our new tables vista_seven. These tables crack 99% of passwords of ...

Nessus v4.0.1 Released

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

The Nessus vulnerability scanner, is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks. Fixes: Fixed memory & register leaks in NASL nessus-fetch ...