September 29th, 2013 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Web applications are one of the most targeted systems as they are directly exposed to internet. There is no web server without serious vulnerabilities, it is enough that you open exploit DB where you will find how it is simple to exploit vulnerable CMS or web applications. Hackers are often searching and having those bugs [...]
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Tags: penetration testing, Pentesting, Tools, Watcher, Web Security 
No Comments » August 11th, 2013 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today about all programing languages support the working with databses, This makes in penetration test you will need to have several tool to pentest targeted platform. If you want to pentest Java based platform you can consider jSQL. jSQL Injection is a small open source cross-platform application that can be used to run Java based [...]
June 30th, 2013 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The penetration testing distribution BackTrack has changed its name to Kali and moved from Ubuntu based operating system to Debian. Kali can be used for penetration testing and security assessment different systems. It is completely similar to what BackTrack provides but with changes to tools and operating system. Features of this distribution: More than 300 [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Pentesting, Tools Tags: BackTrack, Kali, penetration testing, Pentesting, Tools No Comments » May 26th, 2013 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Over this week the Linux Foundation announced a new distribution for BackBox Linux 3.05, which contains the kernel of Linux 3.2. This distribution is similar to backtrack and comes to test the security level of a system. According to the developers, the operating system, which became the basis for Ubuntu 12.04, comes with a set [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Pentesting, Tools Tags: BackBox, penetration testing, Pentesting, Tools 1 Comment » March 29th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Auditing password security level is important to have an idea if the system is secure or not, sometimes system administrators forget about using the secure password and leave it weak to remember it later, this is not good practice. To check Mysql password security or recover a lost one you can use MysqlPasswordAuditor, this tool [...]
Posted in Tools Tags: Mysql, Password Hacking, Password recovery, Password Security, penetration testing, Pentesting, Tools 1 Comment »
February 4th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New update has been released for Inssider a free wardriving application that help penetration tester to check different wireless network available. The program is very useful as it provides information about the encryption used, vendor of the access point, SSID and the performance of the Wifi network coverage. Update release note include the following: ” [...]
Posted in Open-Source, Pentesting Tags: InSSIDer, penetration testing, Pentesting, wifi, Wireless Security No Comments » January 21st, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Today we hear a lot about new generation of IT Security certifications, you go to Linkedin and you find all people adding their certifications on their profiles and this can be a good way to promote their appearance on different search engines. If you decide to pass some new certifications than this article interests you, [...]
Posted in Security Training Tags: CEHv7, Certified Ethical Hacker, denial of service, enumeration, Ethical Hacking, footprinting and reconnaissance, hacking webserver SQL injection, Introduction to ethical hacking, Online Training Course, Penetration Tester, Pentesting, Posted in Best Practices, scanning network, Security Training, session hijacking, sniffers, social engineering, system hacking, Trojans and backdoors, Viruses And Worms No Comments »
