Not too long after Amazon launched their cloud protection WAF the Microsoft Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) has been made generally available in all public Azure DCs. It’s a good move with the majority of websites and services moving into one of the big 3 cloud providers (AWS, Google or Azure) and the vast majority…

The OneLogin hack is blowing up now it seems like whoever got access can also decrypt encrypted customer data which is just about AS BAD as it can get for a password/identity management service. Now I’m a HUGE supporter of password management tools as I’ve mentioned many times here, so anyone who signed up for…

Minion is a security testing framework built by Mozilla to bridge the gap between developers and security testers. To do so, it enables developers to scan with a wide variety of security tools, using a simple HTML-based interface. It consists of three umbrella projects: Minion Frontend, a Python, angular.js, and Bootstrap-based website that provides a…

PunkSPIDER is a global-reaching web vulnerability search engine aimed at web applications. The goal is to allow the user to determine vulnerabilities in websites across the Internet quickly, easily, and intuitively. Please use PunkSPIDER responsibly. In simple terms, that means the authors have created a security scanner and the required architecture that can execute a…

OWASP Offensive Web Testing Framework is a project focused on penetration testing efficiency and alignment of security tests to security standards like: The OWASP Testing Guide (v3 and v4), the OWASP Top 10, PTES and NIST. The purpose of this tool is to automate the manual and uncreative parts of pen testing. For example, Figuring…

So let’s talk about Web Shells, something many of us are already familiar with, but to level the field – what is a web shell? A web shell is a script that can be uploaded to a web server to enable remote administration of the machine. Infected web servers can be either Internet-facing or internal…

UFONet is an open redirect DDoS tool designed to launch attacks against a target, using insecure redirects in third party web applications, like a botnet. Obviously, only for testing purposes. The tool abuses OSI Layer 7-HTTP to create/manage ‘zombies’ and to conduct different attacks using; GET/POST, multi-threading, proxies, origin spoofing methods, cache evasion techniques, etc.…

DMitry (Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool) is a UNIX/(GNU) Linux Command Line program coded purely in C with the ability to gather as much information as possible about a host. DMitry has a base functionality with the ability to add new functions, the basic functionality of DMitry allows for information to be gathered about a target…

Wfuzz is a Python-based flexible web application password cracker or brute forcer which supports various methods and techniques to expose web application vulnerabilities. This allows you to audit parameters, authentication, forms with brute-forcing GET and POST parameters, discover unlinked resources such as directories/files, headers and so on. A brute force attack is a method to…

There seems to be a trend towards malware on the Android platform that extorts money from the user somehow, either through premium SMS or services – or the latest trojan – which covertly purchases apps from the mobile market. We first wrote about Android Antivirus software from Symantec back in 2010 and it seems like…