PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux (other POSIX-compatible systems should work too) tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files. It is small, command line driven without external dependencies. The application is Open Source (GPL). Features: * Supports the standard security handler (revision 2, 3 and 4) on all known PDF-versions * Supports cracking both owner and […]
Category Archives: Security
configure the ethernet interfaces The OSSIM server we plan will have a Main ethernet interface with IP address 10.60.60.33/8 and two interfaces in promiscuous mode for monitoring the 2 LANs. We edit /etc/network/interfaces and come out with this: auto lo eth0 eth1 eth2 iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface # this is […]
Are you using Linux as Internet Gateway ? Using Squid you can moniter Internet access for all my users. I prefer to use Sarg for for daily bases reporting. For Realtime monitoring tail is preferable but if you want to delegate proxy monitoring to Windows Admin Sqstat is best. SqStat is a script […]
The below instructions will show you how you can install all of the Backtrack applications on your current Ubuntu installation. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://repo.offensive-security.com/dist/bt4 binary/ Now to import the Backtrack GPG key and to update the sources: kartook@H4ck3r:~$wget http://repo.offensive-security.com/dist/bt4/binary/public-key && sudo apt-key add public-key && sudo apt-get update Fantastic! Now […]
A German security researcher claims to have cracked the secret code used to prevent eavesdroppers from listening in on mobile phone users’ conversations. In a presentation given at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, researcher Karsten Nohl said he had compiled two terabytes of data in order to figure out the encryption key used to […]
Secure wiping your hard drive in Linux Usually I get a copy of the System Rescue CD and use the DBAN option at the boot prompt. DBAN is an automatic drive wiping utility that doesn’t require you to boot into the Linux environment. But sometimes DBAN doesn’t work right for example in the case of […]
About Maltego “Maltego, is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It allows for the mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a meaningful way. Coupled with its graphing libraries, Maltego, allows you to identify key relationships between information and identify previously unknown relationships between them. It is […]
GFI LANguard is a tool I found as a useful replacement for Nessus (BackTrack does not include Nessus). It is only free with this BackTrack distribution. I found this tool to be a slightly slimmed down version of Nessus. On the other hand it was incredibly easy to use and it provides a wealth of […]
What is SMB ? SMB (Server Message Block) is the protocol Microsoft uses to share files, printers, serial ports, and also to communicate between computers using named pipes and mail slots. In a networked environment, servers make file systems and resources available to clients. Clients make SMB requests for resources and servers make SMB responses […]