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Launching Wireless Hacking Series for Fun and Profit THN is launching a Wireless Hacking series of blog posts where we will talk about a lot of tools and techniques. We hope this will be fun and informational for all of our readers. The series will be based on the SecurityTube Wireless Security Expert (SWSE) course material. We spoke about it in previous blog posts and loved the course material, and also SecurityTube’s spirit of providing the entire course material free and only charging if you are interested in getting certified. As a responsible disclosure, we would like to inform you that we have subscribed to the SWSE course and certification. Once we registered we received the course slides and login to the student portal. This post is a short summary of the study path for the course. The student portal provides a structured path for learning: You can download the course slides, the full course material and watch the welcome video (embedded in the end). Each les...

Hcon’s Security Testing Framework (Hcon STF) v0.1beta After the first demo of Hfox, many people asked about a Chromium based framework for penetration testing/ethical hacking.  After 3 months of work and research, and some input from AJ, the following tool has been developed for the arsenal of Hcon’s tools: Specifications 1.         Based on Chromium Source (iron build) version 14. 2.         Works for ever need of hacking/penetration testing such as recon, enumeration, social engineering, exploitation, vulnerability assessment, anonymity, mobile tools, and reporting. 3.         More secure and tracking free from Google and Stable than other Chromium-based builds. 4.         Over 100 tools integrated with easy-to-use interface. 5.         Tested and heavily modified tools with suggestions contribute...

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars FEDERAL officials on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Florida man, Christopher Chaney  and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood stars following an 11-month federal probe dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi". Twitter was ablaze earlier today with messages claiming to link to naked pictures of film actress Scarlett Johansson, which were allegedly stolen from her iPhone by a hacker earlier this year.The photographs may or may not be of Scarlett Johansson, but I would suggest that every hot-blooded male exercises some restraint as it's extremely possible that cybercriminals might exploit the interest to post dangerous links on the web designed to infect computers or steal information. To gain access to these email accounts, Chaney would search through details of celebrity lives within magazines as well as social media accounts like Twitter and figure ...

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Phoenix Exploit’s Kit 2.8 mini version Back in April of this year, we reported the leak of  Phoenix Exploit Kit 2.5 .  The version currently in circulation is 2.8, and despite its lower activity for the last half of this year, it remains one of the preferred exploit packs used by cyber-criminals. In comparison to the Black Hole Exploit Pack, the PEK has a similar licensing model.  The last version released offered an “alternative” to purchasing the exploit pack.  This “alternative” is the Phoenix Exploit’s Kit 2.8 mini. The current licensing model consists of the following: ·           Simple Domain (Closed) – USD $2,200.00 ·           Multithreaded Domain (Closed) – USD $2,700.00 ·           Extra-Encryption Service (ReFUDing) – USD $40.00 The mini version does not change the characteristics of the Exploit P...

Apple iOS 5 Released ! Apple’s iOS 5 has been released, with owners of the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad and iPad 2, along with the third- and fourth-gen iPod touch all getting the latest version of the mobile platform as a free update. Available to download for existing devices via iTunes, iOS 5 will also be preloaded on the new iPhone 4S, Apple’s fifth-gen smartphone that goes on sale this Friday. " On non-mobile devices, our lives are quickly shifting from native applications [i.e. coded for a specific computer or smartphone's operating system] to Web applications, but by Apple dominating the consumer smartphone market first, and executing it beautifully, they have started to set some really unhealthy precedents that the rest of the industry is copying while simply trying to keep pace ," said Zeke Shore, the Co-Founder and Creative Director of design firm Type/Code. iOS 5 also brings with it iCloud, Apple’s new synchronization and backup system that promises to deli...