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 1 Comment »
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 » January 5th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Wireless network access points are everywhere so if you travel a lot you will find more than one AP at airports coffee shop or at the beach, I often try to scan different wireless network to check what type of encryption used by the AP owner (you can use InSSider) and as a result I [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Pentesting, Tools Tags: penetration, Pentest, Pentesting, Wireless Security 3 Comments » June 10th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Xplico is a project released under GPL that decodes packet captures (PCAP), extracting the likes of email content (POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocols), all HTTP content, VoIP calls (SIP), IM chats, FTP, TFTP, and many others. It can be used on platforms with an embedded ARM core processor or typical multi-core servers, making optimal use [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Tools Tags: Forensics, network discovery, Network Monitoring, open source, XPLICO 51 Comments »
