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 [...]
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Tags: penetration, Pentest, Pentesting, Wireless Security 
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January 4th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Brute forcing passwords is a simple way to hack any system, if there is no vulnerability at the remote system hackers will try this attack to get users password, one of major brute force tools issue that you face is different protocols, so you need to have for each one a new utility which can [...]
September 25th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Over several years compromising web application is the first target for hackers, after attacking any website hacker under a certain name promotes the attack by adding it to www.zone-h.org.Zone-H.org is a website archive of versions of defaced websites.The sources of the hacked website URLs submit their information anonymously, and often include an image of the hacked site. Sometimes [...]
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 [...]
June 1st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua After more than three years since Symantec stopped the support and development of L0phtcrack the tool that provided a titanic opportunity for passwords auditing and recovery. Here comes yesterday the same team with the new version L0phtcrack 6. As the project rights being reacquired by the original authors from Symantec it was possible for them [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Password Security, Pentesting Tags: Authentication/Encryption, hacking, L0phtcrack 6, Operating Systems, Pentest, Security 1 Comment » 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: [...]
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