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THC-ipv6 Toolkit – Attacking the IPV6 Protocol

THC-ipv6 Toolkit – Attacking the IPV6 Protocol

Aug 19, 2011
THC-ipv6 Toolkit – Attacking the IPV6 Protocol A complete tool set to attack the inherent protocol weaknesses of IPV6 and ICMP6, and includes an easy to use packet factory library. Please note to get full access to all the available tools you need to develop IPV6 tools yourself or submit patches, tools and feedback to the thc-ipv6 project. Tools Included : parasite6: icmp neighbor solitication/advertisement spoofer, puts you as man-in-the-middle, same as ARP mitm (and parasite) alive6: an effective alive scanng, which will detect all systems listening to this address dnsdict6: parallized dns ipv6 dictionary bruteforcer fake_router6: announce yourself as a router on the network, with the highest priority redir6: redirect traffic to you intelligently (man-in-the-middle) with a clever icmp6 redirect spoofer toobig6: mtu decreaser with the same intelligence as redir6 detect-new-ip6: detect new ip6 devices which join the network, you can run a script to automatically scan t...
BackTrack 5 R1 Released - Penetration Testing Distribution

BackTrack 5 R1 Released - Penetration Testing Distribution

Aug 19, 2011
BackTrack 5 R1 Released - Penetration Testing Distribution BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. Regardless if you’re making BackTrack your primary operating system, booting from a LiveDVD, or using your favorite thumbdrive, BackTrack has been customized down to every package, kernel configuration, script and patch solely for the purpose of the penetration tester. Official BackTrack 5 R1 change log: This release contains over 120 bug fixes, 30 new tools and 70 tool updates. The kernel was updated to 2.6.39.4 and includes the relevant injection patches. According to the guys at OffSec, This release is their best one yet! Some pesky issues such as rfkill in VMWare with rtl8187 issues have been fixed, which provides for a much more solid experience with BackTrack.We’ve have Gnome and KDE ISO images for 32 and 64 bit (no arm this release),...
78000 Indian Blogs Hacked by ZHC

78000 Indian Blogs Hacked by ZHC

Aug 19, 2011
78000 Indian Blogs Hacked by ZHC Each and every blog hosted on  Blog.co.in  has been hacked by ZCOMPANY HACKING CREW. There are around 78000 blogs hosted on this service , Represent Indian blogs Service.  Reason of Hacking By hackers : ZCompany Hacking Crew Observes Black Day with the people of Indian occupied Kashmir on 15th August.  Free Kashmir .. Freedom is our goal..// End the Occupation. . . . List of all the websites that were hacked: http://www.2shared.com/document/pneC3OHn/blogcoin.html Mirror of Hacks available here :  http://mirror.sec-t.net/hacker/?s=1&user=ZCompanyHackingCrew
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Apply ML to Threat Detection and Threat Hunting — SANS SEC595, NYC, Aug 10

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The Validation Gap: What Automated Pentesting Alone Cannot See

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This free guide maps the structural blind spots and gives you 3 diagnostic questions for any vendor conversation.
#OpBart : BART Police database hacked by Anonymous

#OpBart : BART Police database hacked by Anonymous

Aug 19, 2011
#OpBart : BART Police database hacked by Anonymous A database belonging to the BART Police Officers Association appears to have been hacked by Anonymous Hackers and the names, postal and email addresses of officers posted online HERE . Some say it was Anonymous, some say it was a n00b mademoiselle wielding a +1 SQL injection. This is the second attack was launched on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) yesterday that led to the personal details of 102 police officers being leaked. Anonymous appeared to remove itself from the blame, saying on one of its Twitter feeds that ‘ no one claimed responsibility for the hack ' and that ‘some random Joe joined a channel and released the data to the press'. It said: “ The leak today of BART officer data could be the work sanctioned by those who truly support Anonymous, or agent provocateurs.   People who are against Anonymous know they can do things under the name ‘Anonymous' and never be questioned. This is Anonym...
Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI) Hacked for #Antisec Operation

Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI) Hacked for #Antisec Operation

Aug 17, 2011
Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI) Hacked for #Antisec Operation AntiSec is targeting defense contractors again. Continuing their beef with law enforcement, and organizations that offer them support, they have targeted Richard Garcia, the Senior Vice President of Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI) . AntiSec plans to release nearly 4,713 emails and thousands of documents taken during the breach. AntiSec targeted VDI’s website due to their relationship with several law enforcement agencies from Texas and other parts of the U.S., as well as their relationship with the FBI, the DHS, and U.S. Marshals Service. Moreover, with this hack Antisec (in)directly targeted FBI since Richard Garcia is the former Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s field office in Los Angeles. To those supporting AntiSec, this alone is reason enough to target VDI and release Garcia’s corporate email to the public. “ Any private corporation supporting US military or law enforcement operations are legitimate...
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