VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +1 (from 1 vote)Here comes the Google’s turn to offer bounty for hackers finding bugs in Chrome. As per the latest post “Encouraging More Chromium Security Research” on its official blog of Chrome, Google has decided to follow the practice of Microsoft and other organizations to reward the security researchers.
For every Security [...]
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +5 (from 5 votes)Windows uses registry to store every user and policy configuration on the system. One can directly tweak anything in the registry to alter any of the system settings. However not all registry keys are visible when viewed through default registry editor (regedit.exe). Especially some of the security and [...]
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: 0 (from 4 votes)Some times back I have written article on using Rainbow crack to recover windows passwords. This article explains how one can crack any windows user passwords in seconds instead of regular brute force approach.
In short, Rainbow crack involves comparing the password hash with precomputed hash tables called rainbow tables to [...]
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +3 (from 3 votes)“Man without tools is animal and with tools he is everything”. Till today the quote applies to every field man has set his footprints in. Man has created tools for everything to make every small job easier & quicker.
Now we have tool for Social Engineering too. This [...]
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +7 (from 9 votes)Here is the another good book in the field of penetration testing. Unlike other books which aims only at the technical aspects of Penetration testing, this one explains every step involved in the making of a Professional Pentester.
Rather than just teaching how to use the existing tools, it does more [...]
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)ProcNetMonitor, the tool for monitoring process network ports is supported for Windows 7 now. Newer version comes with enhanced user interface along with minor bug fixes.
In short, ProcNetMonitor makes it easy to quickly analyze network activity of all running processes. It has advanced color based auto analysis system to [...]
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +5 (from 5 votes)Operation Aurora – The well targeted attack under which top companies including Google got hacked through the zero day vulnerability. Google has released separate statement recently illustrating nature of the attack vectors and motives of the attacker.
In this attack which believed to be originated from China, the zero day (not [...]
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +1 (from 1 vote)ProcHeapViewer, the fastest tool to scan and enumerate process heaps now ships for Windows 7. The new version also comes with enhanced user interface with cool look & feel.
For more information and download, please visit the ProcHeapViewer page here.
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)M$ has announced its first critical security vulnerability of the year 2010 in its Tuesday patch release. This is the vulnerability in the OpenType font engine embedded in the client applications which can lead to remote code execution leading to complete control of the system.
As per the bulletin, the attack [...]
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VN:F [1.7.7_1013]Rating: +1 (from 1 vote)VistaUACMaker, a handy tool to make XP based applications compatible with Vista will now work for Windows 7 too. So now with few clicks your XP application will work on Win7 seamlessly.
The new version also presents attractive GUI with enhanced look & feel. For download and more information please visit [...]
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