June 22nd, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Robert Hansen, a guru in the field of security, has released a new tool for DoS-attacks, exposing serious Web server’s vulnerabilities including Apache and other servers. Hansen called his tool Slowloris , the most interesting in this utility that it can cause a DoS attack without using a huge amount of traffic as we usually [...]
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Tags: Apache, Attacks, Ethical Hacking, Linux, Security 
No Comments » June 16th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Phrake magazine 66 is released, in this number you can find these topics: • Abusing the Objective C runtime • Backdooring Juniper Firewalls • Exploiting DLmalloc frees in 2009 • Persistent BIOS infection • Exploiting UMA : FreeBSD kernel heap exploits • Exploiting TCP Persist Timer Infiniteness • Malloc Des-Maleficarum • A Real SMM Rootkit [...]
March 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Two well-known Mac hackers are updating a widely used hacking toolkit, making it easier to take control of a Macintosh computer. Over the past few days, the researchers have been quietly adding new software to the Metasploit toolkit, used by security researchers and criminals alike. Metasploit already supported Mac attacks, but until recently the Mac [...]
March 11th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Damn Vulnerable Linux is another interesting platform for pen testing and vulnerability assessment, it is created for training purposes to IT-Security professional during a university lessons by the IITAC (International Institute for Training, Assessment, and Certification) and secure software Engineering in cooperation with the French Reverse Engineering Team. It is freely available for download here: [...]
Posted in Pentesting Tags: Ethical Hacking, Linux, Live CD, Pentest, Security, Vulnerabilities Assessment No Comments » February 11th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Remote Exploit Development Team has just announced BackTrack 4 Beta and they consider the version to be stable and usable, there are a lot of new features including: * Kernel 2.6.28.1 with better hardware support. *Native support for Pico e12 and e16 cards is now fully functional, making BackTrack the first pentesting distro to [...]
February 8th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Backtrack needs no introduction in the security and hacking world. It is an excellent bootable live-CD Linux distribution, with a huge collection of security and hacking tools. After seven months of effort here comes the Remote Exploit Dev team with changes in the PXE booting, and WPA table generation and can be read about on [...]
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