posted in External tools on May 31st, 2009
Tool name : THC Hydra Description : THC Hydra is a fast network authentication cracker which supports many different services. When you need to brute force crack a remote authentication service, Hydra is often the tool of choice. It can perform rapid dictionary attacks against more then 30 protocols, including telnet, [...]
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posted in News & media, Stuff on May 29th, 2009
As my old TV broke down I refused to buy a new one and because I moved into a new flat, beside my new environment, it was just another of many things I had to get used to. My life without a TV. The temptation of watching streams was big but I resisted but soon [...]
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posted in Tools & sources on May 26th, 2009
Tool name : FirewallBypassing++ 0.1 Description : A tool to check if your desktop firewall can be bypassed by injecting code into a remote process. It opens an existing process (in this case a running instance of Internet Explorer), allocates memory in the address space of the remote process where the new malicious code [...]
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posted in External tools on May 24th, 2009
Tool name : Cain & Abel Description : UNIX users often smugly assert that the best free security tools support their platform first, and Windows ports are often an afterthought. They are usually right, but Cain & Abel is a glaring exception. This Windows-only password recovery tool handles an enormous variety [...]
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posted in Tools & sources on May 22nd, 2009
Tool name : HandleProcesses version 0.2 Description : HandleProcess is a tool to manage running processes on a Windows system. Depending on the passed parameters it lists all processes by name and process ID, it kills processes by name or by its process ID, it suspends a process with all its sub threads or [...]
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posted in Tools & sources on May 19th, 2009
Tool name : IEPasswordRecovery 0.1 Description : IEPasswordRecovery searches inside Microsofts protected storage area for Internet Explorer auto completion (authentication input fields in a page) and HTTP authentication entries. If such an entry was found the hostname, username and password are printed on the display. Only Internet Explorer up to version 6 use the [...]
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posted in External tools on May 17th, 2009
Tool name : Netstumbler Description : NetStumbler is a tool for Windows that facilitates detection of Wireless LANs using the 802.11a/b/g WLAN standards. It runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Homepage : www.stumbler.net
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posted in External tools on May 17th, 2009
Tool name : Netstumbler Description : Wireshark (known as Ethereal until a trademark dispute in Summer 2006) is a fantastic open source network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the [...]
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posted in External tools on May 17th, 2009
Tool name : Nessus Description : Nessus was a popular free and open source vulnerability scanner until they closed the source code in 2005 and removed the free “registered feed” version in 2008. A limited “Home Feed” is still available, though it is only licensed for home network use. Some people [...]
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posted in External tools on May 17th, 2009
Tool name : Nmap Description : Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what [...]
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