July 28th, 2011 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua New version of Metasploit professional edition has been released by Rapid7, Metasploit is a complete solution for penetration testing that gives pentester a complete visibility on different threat with over 10 vulnerability scanners. Metasploit Pro 4.0 helps you improve your enterprise vulnerability management program and test how well your perimeter holds up against real world [...]
April 24th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Social engineering has enjoying an increasingly effective and prominent role in effective online attacks. The term itself is a big one, encompassing targeted surveillance and information-gathering techniques that early hacking stars such as Kevin Mitnick mastered (and went on to write about), down to the ubiquitous phishing and spam email message. “The Social Engineering Toolkit [...]
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Tags: Metasploit, SET, social engineering, Social Engineering Toolkit 
37 Comments » December 26th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Social engineering has enjoying an increasingly effective and prominent role in effective online attacks. The term itself is a big one, encompassing targeted surveillance and information-gathering techniques that early hacking stars such as Kevin Mitnick mastered (and went on to write about), down to the ubiquitous phishing and spam email message. “The Social Engineering Toolkit [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Tools Tags: Metasploit, SET, social engineering, Social Engineering Toolkit 11 Comments » December 14th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua We already shared the PowerShell security policies and protection measures that are used by Microsoft, as a reminder there are 4 levels of execution policies that can help in securing different script execution. Now that post has been mostly focused on system security administrator benefit but what about hackers, do they have benefits for PowerShell [...]
Posted in Operating System, Pentesting, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: DefCon, DefCon18, Metasploit, Pentesting, PowerShell 11 Comments » November 18th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new release has been recently announced by Metasploit Team, Metasploit framework helps to perform penetration testing and creating a new exploit for the available bugs. The Metasploit platform is used by professionals in the Network security, Network admin, developers and researchers to test the security level of any new system installed. This project was [...]
Posted in News, Pentesting, Software Security Tags: Metasploit, Network Penetration Testing 6 Comments » September 30th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new post has been released yesterday providing a script to exploit a critical vulnerability in windows, the vulnerability has been discovered since the 7th of September. Up to this Monday the vulnerability can lead only to a failure in the system but now and after Stephen Fewer from Metasploit issued this script publicly it [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Vulnerabilities & attacks Tags: Exploit, Metasploit, Microsoft, Security, Vulnerability Research 6 Comments » 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 [...]
