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BeEF 0.4.2.12 alpha Browser Exploitation Framework Released The Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF) is a powerful professional security tool. BeEF is pioneering techniques that provide the experienced penetration tester with practical client side attack vectors. Unlike other security frameworks, BeEF focuses on leveraging browser vulnerabilities to assess the security posture of a target. This project is developed solely for lawful research and penetration testing. BeEF hooks one or more web browsers as beachheads for the launching of directed command modules. Each browser is likely to be within a different security context, and each context may provide a set of unique attack vectors. BeEF provides an easily integratable framework that demonstrates the impact of browser and Cross-site Scripting issues in real-time. Development has focused on creating a modular framework. This has made module development a very quick and simple process. Current modules include metasploit, port sc...

The Mole - Another Automatic SQL Injection exploitation tool The Mole is an automatic SQL Injection exploitation tool. Only by providing a vulnerable URL and a valid string on the site it can detect the injection and exploit it, either by using the union technique or a boolean query based technique. Features Support for injections using Mysql, SQL Server, Postgres and Oracle databases. Command line interface. Different commands trigger different actions. Auto-completion for commands, command arguments and database, table and columns names. Support for query filters, in order to bypass certain IPS/IDS rules using generic filters, and the possibility of creating new ones easily. Exploits SQL Injections through GET and POST methods. Developed in python 3. Video Demonstration: 1.)  Installation Guide 2.) Tutorial to Use 3.) Download Mole

Note : This Article is taken from Most Comprehensive and Informative IT Security Magazine by The Hacker News - December Edition [ Download Here ] "Be Social" is the imperative of the last years. We live alternative lives, weave dense networks of relationships; we feel the irrepressible urge to be part of a group, to fill the void that we carry within. But this human propensity to aggregation is now the foundation of the concept of "social network", a community of people, each of them defined "node" by researches, which are united by friendship, kinship, passions, interests, religious beliefs. The whole world is represented by a lattice structure that scientists have long taken to study, to achieve the classification of that human "node", classify its customs, and especially to predict the behavior and through it influence the response of the community a particular event. The philosophy is that of the control. In May Pierluigi Paganini defined the ter...

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam Six people from London and the North West were being questioned by police on Friday in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that drained the bank accounts of hundreds of UK students. That is a lot of beer and book money, and the police said that hundreds of students had been caught out by the scammers. Today the Metropolitan Police said its Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) arrested the suspects yesterday after four months of investigation. On Thursday, the police arrested a 38 year old man in Bolton; a 26 year old man and a 25 year old woman in Manchester; a 25 year old man in Deptford, London; and a 49 year old woman and a 31 year old man in Stratford, London. Police also seized computers and equipment from premises in London, Manchester and Bolton. The police said that on average the scammers, four men and two women, took amounts of money ranging from £1,000 to £5,000 at a time. They have been arrested on suspicion of consp...

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