From the monthly archives:

February 2010

BBC News published that Ministers in Scotland are considering a new law which would help stop people stalking and harassing their victims by text or online.

Currently those who behave in such a way face a breach of the peace charge.

Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill wants a new offence outlawing “threatening, alarming or distressing behaviour”.

The government will seek to change this by lodging an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill, which is going through parliament.

Once the new powers are enshrined in law they will give prosecutors the ability to act against stalkers who send threatening messages via email, text, phone calls and on internet sites such as Facebook.

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Google announces a new service called Google TiSP. Google TiSP new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and Google send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD.

TiSP in-home wireless broadband is:

  • Free, fast and highly reliable
  • Easy to install — takes just minutes
  • Vacuum-sealed to prevent water damage

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

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FindDomains is a multithreaded search engine discovery tool that will be very useful for penetration testers dealing with discovering domain names/web sites/virtual hosts which are located on too many IP addresses. Provides a console interface so you can easily integrate this tool to your pentest automation system.

It retrieves domain names/web sites which are located on specified ip address/hostname.

This tool is prepared by starting with Bing API 2.0 code sample.

In order to use FindDomains :

  • Create an appid from “Bing Developers”, this link.
  • It’ll be like that : 32AFB589D1C8B4FEC73D4BCB6EA0AD810E0FA2C7
  • When you have registered an appid, enter it to the “appid.txt” which is on program directory.

Some outlines :

  • Uses Bing search engine. Works with first 1000 records.
  • Multithreaded on crawling and DNS resolution.
  • Performs DNS resolution for extracted domains to eleminate cached/old records.
  • Has a console interface so it can be very useful with some command-line foo.
  • Works with Mono. But running under Windows is more efficient.

Sample usage :

1) FindDomains.exe 1.2.3.4

2) FindDomains.exe www.hotmail.com

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