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The Mole - Another Automatic SQL Injection exploitation tool

The Mole - Another Automatic SQL Injection exploitation tool

Dec 10, 2011
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
Social network poisoning - They are Following you Everywhere !

Social network poisoning - They are Following you Everywhere !

Dec 09, 2011
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
Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding Exposure Management, Pentesting, Red Teaming and RBVM

Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding Exposure Management, Pentesting, Red Teaming and RBVM

Apr 29, 2024Exposure Management / Attack Surface
It comes as no surprise that today's cyber threats are orders of magnitude more complex than those of the past. And the ever-evolving tactics that attackers use demand the adoption of better, more holistic and consolidated ways to meet this non-stop challenge. Security teams constantly look for ways to reduce risk while improving security posture, but many approaches offer piecemeal solutions – zeroing in on one particular element of the evolving threat landscape challenge – missing the forest for the trees.  In the last few years, Exposure Management has become known as a comprehensive way of reigning in the chaos, giving organizations a true fighting chance to reduce risk and improve posture. In this article I'll cover what Exposure Management is, how it stacks up against some alternative approaches and why building an Exposure Management program should be on  your 2024 to-do list. What is Exposure Management?  Exposure Management is the systematic identification, evaluation,
Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Dec 09, 2011
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 conspirac
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This guide captures the definitive criteria for choosing the right SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) vendor.
"Enter at your own Risk" Cyber Security Awareness Campaign

"Enter at your own Risk" Cyber Security Awareness Campaign

Dec 09, 2011
" Enter at your own Risk " Cyber Security Awareness Campaign Coming this January , For the First time in Cyber History the Best, The Brightest & the Most Daring Come Together For an Information Extravaganza that will blow your Cyber Mind ! It's a time for us to offer education that increases online security for everyone. ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK Cyber Security Awareness Campaign   The Hacker News  & 5 Other Top IT Security Sites are Sponsoring a Special Edition January 2012 Magazine, That Features Articles & Commentaries on Cyber Security From : 1.) The Hacker News 2.)   Security-FAQs 3.)   SecManiac 4.)   Korben 5.)  Security-Shell 6.) SecTechno Our goal is to provide the most up-to-date information on a wide variety of topics that address the tricky and complicated world of hackers and hacking. Cyber security is our Shared Responsibility. Everyone has the potential to make a difference and educate others. You can raise awareness within your community, no mat
Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope

Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope

Dec 08, 2011
Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope Have you ever wanted to inspect or photograph something up close, but could not find amagnifying glass or did not have enough light on your subject? Well read on, because this project will do the job for you at little or no cost called " My Inspector Gadget ". Most of you probably have a webcam sitting around somewhere, and after all the high voltage projects you've done using disposable cameras, we bet you have some camera lenses too. In a contest entry Butch shows  how to make your very own computer enabled microscope out of stuff that many of you will have lying around your house. What is basically involved is tearing apart a web cam, adding additional lighting and a lens assembly from an old film camera. In is project he shows how to harvest the lens from the film camera and mount it, as well as where he added the LED. You can see in the picture above, his results are pretty good. [ Source ]
Biggest Pakistan News site Dawn.com hacked by LuCkY

Biggest Pakistan News site Dawn.com hacked by LuCkY

Dec 08, 2011
Biggest Pakistan News site Dawn.com hacked by LuCkY Indian hacking Group " Indishell " hackers once again hit Pakistani cyber space. This time LuCkY from Indishell team deface the biggest Pakistani News site Dawn.com  ( Alexa Rank : 3540 ). He also post Database Info ie. Database Name - archives_wpress Database Name - archives_user2 Database Password - 'B,!R~T-K^L2)'); Deface page message include the possible hack reason " You Wont get kashmir by hacking sites lol , Kashmir is ours will be".  Hackers on both sides have indulged in sporadic attacks against each other ever since 1998 nuclear tests. The Indishell and PCA warriors hide behind coded named such as 'Zombie' , 'Lucky' and are thought to be young IT professionals.
Charlie Miller now working with DoD for Cyber Security

Charlie Miller now working with DoD for Cyber Security

Dec 08, 2011
Charlie Miller is a former hacker who has become an information security consultant now working with Department of Defense (DoD) for helping out with cyber security.  He was invited to the conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn, where he talked about the vulnerability of information systems.  In a recent video released he talks about the ways he works. He spent five years working for the National Security Agency. Miller demonstrated his hacks publicly on products manufactured by Apple. In 2008 he won a $10,000 cash prize at the hacker conference Pwn2Own in Vancouver Canada for being the first to find a critical bug in the ultrathin MacBook Air. The next year, he won $5,000 for cracking Safari. In 2009 he also demonstrated an SMS processing vulnerability that allowed for complete compromise of the Apple iPhone and denial-of-service attacks on other phones. In 2011 he found a security hole in an iPhone
Critical Zero-day Vulnerability in Adobe Reader

Critical Zero-day Vulnerability in Adobe Reader

Dec 08, 2011
Critical Zero-day Vulnerability in Adobe Reader Researchers at the Lockheed Martin Computer Incident Response Team (CRT) and members of the Defense Security Information Exchange informed Adobe that their products were being exploited by hackers. The exploit affects all versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.x and higher, including Adobe Reader X and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1) for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. " This U3D memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system ," wrote Adobe in their incident report, explaining that this essentially a memory-corruption and privilege escalation exploit. " There are reports that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild in limited, targeted attacks against Adobe Reader 9.x on Windows. Adobe Reader X Protected Mode and Acrobat X Protected View mitigations would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing. " According to a blog po
XSS Vulnerability in Google Code site

XSS Vulnerability in Google Code site

Dec 08, 2011
XSS (Cross site Scripting )  Vulnerability discovered on Google Code website as shown. Claimed to be Discovered by  Vansh Sharma & Vaibhuv Sharma. Proof Of Concept: Just go to https://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/  and then click on edit HTML after that remove all the codes and type this script: < img src="< img src=search"/onerror=alert("XSS")//"> And click on DEBUG CODE , and then first it will show you " Sample must have <head> element " click OK and wait for the window to load if nothing happen then try the same thing again or simply you can click on RUN CODE, and you will get a popup which is XSS. Another Similar XSS posted by  +Pirate , as posted on HackForum Community.
Coca-Cola Norway Hacked by Greek Hacking Scene (GHS)

Coca-Cola Norway Hacked by Greek Hacking Scene (GHS)

Dec 08, 2011
Coca-Cola Norway Hacked by Greek Hacking Scene (GHS) An Impressive cyberattack was executed by a ​​Greek hacker against the official website of the multinational company Coca-Cola in Norway with defacement in internal links of the website. In a demonstration of power, the Greek hacker with the pseudonym «Napsterakos», identified weakness in the company's website-giant Coca-Cola, and defaced on purpose to post his own messages. As SecNews was informed by an anonymous reader giving us details about the incident, the attack was made as the first attack of the operation «Greek Hacking Scene vs Corruption», The hacker «Napsterakos», in a message posted on Pastebin states that "when the future is based on lies, then everyone is corrupt ..." and that "~ We were everywhere we see and hear everything in a future based on lies anyone is corrupted, all must pay, and will do so in one way or another. The words acquire value only through their actions. ~ ' See [ here
Facebook privacy flaw exposes Mark Zuckerberg private photos

Facebook privacy flaw exposes Mark Zuckerberg private photos

Dec 07, 2011
Facebook privacy flaw exposes Mark Zuckerberg private photos A flaw in Facebook has granted prying users access to supposedly private photographs, including those of the website's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. In total 14 pictures of Mr Zuckerberg were posted to image site Imgur under the headline: " It's time to fix those security flaws Facebook ".The bug in the website's photo reporting tool - which Facebook says was only temporary and has now been fixed - meant that users could access others' pictures even if they were private. The flaw was first reported on the forums of BodyBuilding.com, presumably because the users of that website like taking photos of themselves and putting them online. The bug exploits the way the offensive photograph reporting tool works. Facebook has been heavily criticised in the last few years for matters of privacy and so there are people who will leap on this story as yet another example of how the company simply doesn't take its u
DNS cache poisoning attack on Google, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo, Apple

DNS cache poisoning attack on Google, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo, Apple

Dec 06, 2011
DNS cache poisoning attack on Google, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo, Apple Hacker with nickname AlpHaNiX deface Google, Gmail, Youtube, Yahoo, Apple etc domains of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hacker use strategy so-called DNS cache poisoning. DNS cache poisoning is a security or data integrity compromise in the Domain Name System (DNS). The compromise occurs when data is introduced into a DNS name server's cache database that did not originate from authoritative DNS sources. It may be a deliberate attempt of a maliciously crafted attack on a name server. Hacked websites are : https://apple.cd/ https://yahoo.cd/ https://gmail.cd/ https://google.cd/ https://youtube.cd/ https://linux.cd/ https://samsung.cd/ https://hotmail.cd/ https://microsoft.cd/ [ Source ]
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