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 [...]
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Tags: Artillery, brute force, Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy, Honeypot, open source, Security, SET, Social Engineering Toolkit, SSH, Tools 
No Comments » July 29th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There are an immense number of tools for Brute force and password recovery that have been created to help security specialist in pentesting and evaluate application and system password level security. Let’s start with Brutus AET2, from 2000 there were no update for this tool. But this tool appears as one of the fastest and [...]
Posted in Password Security, Tools Tags: brute force, Brutus AET2, L0phtcrack, Password recovery, THC-Hydra, TSGrinder 2 Comments » April 22nd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Security Experts at sans warns IT Managers from a new type of SSH attack that can lead to compromise the server and open an administrator session on it. The Sans researchers warns of brute force-attack with objective to find usernames and passwords on the targeted servers. According to Daniel Wesemann at SANS Internet Storm Center [...]
