Saturday, September 11, 2010
ObiWaN – Server Bruteforcer by Phenoelit
ObiWaN is the brainchild of Phenoelit, a german hacker group headed by elite hacker FX which is written to carry out brute force security testing on Webservers. The goal of ObiWaN is a brute force authentication attack against Webserver with authentication requests - and in fact to break in insecure accounts. As the official documentation says -
5 more sites for Security Basics
last time I blogged about 5 sites for Budding Hackers & followed up with 5 more sites for budding hackers... but as the user queries flood my inbox for more, I decided to dig a bit more & publish some of the more prominent sites I visit in my free time. The following blogs are prominient & hot favorites for security essentials & are full of resources which will enhance your skill set. A must visit list -
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Cyber Terror Book Launched on 30th October
Cyber Terror Book Launched on 30th October: GOOD NEWS ALL MY FRIENDS
Thanks To one and all - By Vaidehi Sachin
Hackers create 57,000 fake web addresses weekly
According to a three month long study carried out by PandaLabs – the research arm of Panda Security – each week, hackers are creating 57 000 new fake web addresses to trick or infect users.
Password recovery & hostname changes in linux
So..it recently happened to me when I while messing with my system, i wrote a script to change root password & set it to expire in every 7 days & simultaneously making changes to hostname by setting it to a random value.. I queried my friend Raghu for inputs regarding it & got some interesting results,which I will be compiling here. This tutorial is intended for Linux newbies & would help them to get familiar with the enviornment. Actually, after 7 days what happened I tried to log in,& it always said "root password expired, please contact your administrator"..seems familiar ? well..here is how you can eradicate this.