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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘open source’
Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Elgg <= 1.7.9
July 30th, 2011
Mourad Ben Lakhoua New vulnerability has been discovered in Elgg an open-source application that helps to create social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications. Well-known Organizations with networks powered by Elgg include: Australian Government, British Government, Federal Canadian Government, MITRE, The World [...]
YARA Adds Win32 Version
June 23rd, 2011
Mourad Ben Lakhoua I have previously posted on Infosec Institute an article about Classifying Malware with ClamAV and YARA, the article is focused on using open source tools under Linux system to create descriptions of malware families based on textual or binary patterns contained in samples from those families and to quickly identify known malware. Two days ago [...]
XPLICO Tool for Network Forensic
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 [...]
Capturing and Analyzing Malicious Network Traffic
May 28th, 2011
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Sniffers are very important tools for analyzing and capturing all packets in real time. If you want to understand what Malware change on the network level here you can find some useful sniffing utilities: Wireshark’s GUI Fantastic packet analyzer tool for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and various other platforms, at first this tool is [...]



Posted in
Tags:



