SkipFish – Web Application Security Scanner

March 23, 2010

Key Features: High Speed: Pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint – easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets. Ease of Use: Heuristics to support a variety of quirky web frameworks and mixed-technology sites, with automatic learning capabilities, on-the-fly wordlist creation, and form autocompletion. Cutting-Edge Security Logic: High quality, low [...]

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Ncrack – High-Speed Network Authentication Cracker

March 23, 2010

Ncrack is a high-speed network authentication cracking tool. It was built to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords. Security professionals also rely on Ncrack when auditing their clients. Ncrack was designed using a modular approach, a command-line syntax similar to Nmap and a dynamic [...]

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How hackers took down Baidu

March 5, 2010

China’s leading search engine claims a shocking lack of security nous at its chosen domain name registrar was responsible for a prolonged outage last month. China’s Baidu says in legal papers that that an obvious scammer was able to con Register.com support staff into handing over the keys to its kingdom, resulting in millions of [...]

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How to Reset Super Admin Password in Joomla

February 28, 2010

This generates the sql code to overwrite your Joomla password with a new password typed in this form. You need to run the generated sql code in PHPMyAdmin or your favorite MySQL interface. We do not save or give away these passwords.This is Javascript code and it runs on your own machine. New password: Database [...]

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