STeBB ( Security Testing Browser Bundle ) is an all in one web security toolkit for web application security testers. Built over Mozilla Firefox, this Linux based open source browser bundle comes with a vast array of awesome tools that help you secure your web application. STeBB runs in Debian based Linux distributions and can be used to thoroughly security test the web applications, especially the OWASP Top 10 risks. Basically it’s a web pen … Read more.
Analyze the network traffic of a TV
I recently bought a new Philips television 32PFL5008H/12. Most new televisions are ‘smart’ and this device is nothing different. It can connect to the Internet via a wired or wireless connection. I used the wired connection and disabled wireless. I also disabled most of the ‘smart’ features because they are not useful for my usage.
According to the included licenses this device is build on a Linux Kernel 3.0.13 and includes a number of open … Read more.
tiny Web Url Scanner
For a new project I needed a tool that could scan a web server for the http status code of different URLs and have the results listed in a easily parseable result. The URLs are typical Linux resources (f.e. the password file, the hostname, services file, …) that could lead to disclosing sensitive system information.
There are already a number of tools that can achieve this but none really provided the output that I needed. … Read more.
Catch all web script
It can sometimes be useful to have a script that captures all the HTTP requests and that logs these requests to a file. The PHP script below works for me. I use this script in combination with the htaccess file to catch all web page requests and redirect them to one file.
The .htaccess file :
The apache config for the virtual host is straightforward.
What is inside the Adobe hacked database file?
Adobe recently suffered from a break-in where intruders were able to get hold of Adobe users’data, containing email addresses, encrypted passwords, password hint names, etc.
This break-in was acknowledged by Adobe (note that the acknowledgement page from Adobe does not have a date or timestamp, at least not on Nov-17, it only mentions ‘recently’).
The posting on the Sophos blog by Paul Ducklin provides a very interesting overview on the cryptographic blunders made by Adobe. … Read more.
CT Scan
I had a CT scan of my head. I don’t know what exactly there is to see on the different images (the whole sequence is about 250 images) but they do look pretty amazing …
The images were available to me via a web interface on the Picture Archive and Communication Systems (PACS) platform of the hospital. The web server (JBossWeb/2.0.1.GA) was hosted on a Belgacom-IP that, according to the whois-database, belongs to ‘Tyco Thermal … Read more.
Harvesting Facebook, Twitter and other web service accounts
This post demonstrates how relatively easy it is to setup a system that harvests user credentials (username and password) for different web services (Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo).
For this exercise we’ll use two machines :
An end-user laptop or desktop with a browser; Kali Linux with a number of pentesting tools. The Kali Linux machine needs at least one network interface with internet connection.
The exercise scenario involves three major steps :
Have … Read more.
Theming WordPress excerpts and archives
I run this blog on WordPress. One of the major advantages of WordPress is its support for customizable web themes. These themes contain the graphical markup (CSS, images) and PHP code to mangle the data that is displayed.
I’ve adapted some of the default functions to have the display of archives and blog excerpts behave differently to the default provided by WordPress.
WordPress archives are accessible via the wp_get_archives function. This function has a number … Read more.
Password attacks against http web forms
Web applications have become important assets in a company infrastructure. If you need to do a penetration test then it is essential that you have a basic understanding of how to analyse and test these web applications.
Many, if not all, require some form of authentication. Sometimes this happens via Basic Authentication where the user needs to enter credentials in some form of popup in the web browser. More often though the authentication happens via … Read more.
Top 20 Free Digital Forensic Investigation Tools for SysAdmins
A list of 20 different digital forensic investigation tools. The list is taken from http://www.gfi.com/blog/top-20-free-digital-forensic-investigation-tools-for-sysadmins/.
Added this post as a reminder-to-self.
SANS SIFT ProDiscover Basic Volatility The Sleuth Kit (+Autopsy) FTK Imager Linux ‘dd’ CAINE Oxygen Forensic Suite 2013 Standard Free Hex Editor Neo Bulk Extractor DEFT Xplico LastActivityView Digital Forensic Framework Mandiant RedLine PlainSight HxD HELIX3 Free NetSleuth P2 eXplorer Free
