Mozilla Firefox4.0.1 First Security Update

Mozilla Released it's first release of Mozilla Firefox Firefox 4.0.1 which is a open source browser.Fourteen flaws have been found in Firefox 4.0.1 from which 13 flaws are categorized as critical Vulnerabilities and one is mentioned low impact Vulnerability.The biggest category of fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox 4.0.1 are memory safety related issues, with 10 identified flaws."Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based...

Hacker Used SQL-injection to Get 675K Credit Card

A computer hacker from Georgia has pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft after authorities found him with more than 675,000 stolen credit card accounts on his home computers, Credit card companies have traced more than $36 million in fraudulent transactions to the accounts that were breached by Rogelio Hackett.How he did it? Hacker briefly used the SQL-injection attack on web resources he was able to use different SQL vulnerabilities despite that this kind of vulnerability...

Infondlinux: Install Useful Security Tools & Firefox Addons for hackers

Infondlinux is a script that installs most of the hacking tools, that we use during penetration tests and capture the flag tournaments. It is a post configuration script for Ubuntu Linux. We can also install it on other *nix system but not all of the below mentioned tools may work depending on environment. It has been actively tested on Ubuntu 10.10.It installs useful security tools and Firefox addons. Tools installed by script are listed at the beginning of source code, which we can edit as per...

Data Breach Investigations Report for 2011

Latest data breach reports for 2011 with comparisons is out with some shocking statistics. 361 million >> 144 million >> 4 million. Thus goes the tally of total records compromised across the combined caseload of Verizon and the United States Secret Service (USSS) over the last three years. After four years of increasing losses culminating in 2008’s record-setting 361 million, we speculated whether 2009’s drop to 144 million was a fluke or a sign of things to come. 2010’s total of less...

Armitage 04.24.11

Armitage is a graphical attack management tool for Metasploit that visualize your target, recommends exploits, and expose the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage's aim is to make Metasploit usable for security practitioners who understand hacking but do not use Metasploit every day. New features in Armitage updated version.Armitage -> Listeners -> Reverse now binds to 0.0.0.0.Host import now posts an event to the collab mode shared event logAdded an option...

How to Disable Geolocation in Specific Programs

Geolocation is a rather secret feature of some browsers and toolbars. It allows the creator of that program to get a fix on the location of your computer to within a few meters of where you actually live. If you want to see how to disable geolocation on Twitter, Thunderbird,Internet ExplorerX, Apple Safari , GMAIL , etc. Please go to the Source.  - Facebook (initially just for the iPhone client):• Goto Privacy Settings• Click ‘Custom’• Click ‘Custom Settings’• Disable ‘Places I check...

Metasploit (Video Tutorials)

Metasploit is one of the tool that every hacker have in his tool kit which contains lots of modules and exploits which can be used with various payloads to  break into boxes.In this video series you will go through the metasploit framework starting from the very basics of metasploit and slowly more towards  intermediate and advanced functionality, including creation of Meterpreter scripts and extending the framework.Video Series Link (Original source) 1. Metasploit Megaprimer Part 1...