March 31st, 2013 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Scylla is another tool that you can use for penetration testing protocols used by different applications. Scylla works with three basic stages, the pre-hack stage where the tool can readily obtain information about the remote application without resorting to brute-force attacks (something like enumeration). Here is where anti-anti-Brute Force techniques are implemented, such as getting [...]
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Tags: brute force, Bruteforce Tool, open source, penetration testing, Scylla, Tools 
No Comments » April 23rd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua By the increasing number of smartphone malwares it is important to install an application that will monitor all activities on your device, this will get you an instant notification for suspicious applications or programs and help you to avoid malicious apps at an early stage. If you are using Android operating system for your smartphone [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Tools Tags: Android, App Permission Watcher, Application Security, Smartphone 1 Comment »
February 4th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New update has been released for Inssider a free wardriving application that help penetration tester to check different wireless network available. The program is very useful as it provides information about the encryption used, vendor of the access point, SSID and the performance of the Wifi network coverage. Update release note include the following: ” [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Pentesting Tags: InSSIDer, penetration testing, Pentesting, wifi, Wireless Security No Comments » January 30th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy author of The Social-Engineering Toolkit (SET) have released last December another interesting tool written in python that helps to protect *nix based system with a combination of honeypot , monitoring and prevention systems. Honeypot is a good way to trick attacker by simulating a vulnerable system to attract hacker or a malicious [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Tools Tags: Artillery, brute force, Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy, Honeypot, open source, Security, SET, Social Engineering Toolkit, SSH, Tools No Comments » January 25th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Tom Stafford one of the authors of Mind Hacks have just published two free e-books that comes as an addition to his work. Mind Hacks is a popular book that “describes the brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment–one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, [...]
Posted in Infosec Book, Open-Source Tags: E-learning, Ethical Hacking, Free E-Book, Mind Hacks No Comments »
January 12th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There is several ways to encrypt your files, this week we posted about Vanishcrypt useful tool that can help to create a virtual encrypted storage on your local system, some people prefer to encrypt just a single file, so you don’t need to create a storage but you have a document that you want to [...]
Posted in Encryption, InfoSec, Open-Source, Software Security, Tools Tags: AES, Authentication/Encryption, AxCrypt, Encrypted Files No Comments »
January 10th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Nginx is getting more and more used by popular website, if we look at netcraft 9.63% of internet are today using nginx based webserver, this including huge websites such as Rambler, wordpress.com ,Sourceforge.net and vkontakte.ru. These website needs a big performance for serving millions of visitors daily if we talk about vontakte than it’s the [...]
Posted in InfoSec, Open-Source, Tools, Web Security Tags: Naxsi, Nginx, WAF, Web Application Firewall, Web Security, Websecurity No Comments »
