Just before the announce of the Full-Disclosure shutdown a few days ago, a thread generated a lot of traffic and finally turned into a small flame war. In the beginning of the month, a security researcher reported a vulnerability found on Youtube. According to him, the Google service was suffering of
Category: Pentesting
Pwning and Pivoting!
When talking about security to small companies – the “SME market” as the business says – their reaction is often: “Me? Why should I care? I’m so small and my business is not relevant for cyber-criminals…“. This is a big fail! As a proof, I like to ask them for
Fixing SET 5.0.3 & Metasploit 4.6.0
A quick post to share with you my feedback about an issue I faced after a SET (“Social Engineering Toolkit“) upgrade to the latest version (5.0.3). SET is a wonderful tool that you must master. Â I’m using SET on a EC2 instance because it does not interfere with my other
Review: Penetration Testing – Setting Up a Test Lab How-To
I’m just back from an Easter break with $WIFE and $KIDS but it does not mean that I was completely disconnected. Between familly activities, I read some items pending in my todo list. One of them was the book called “Penetration Testing – Setting Up a Test Lab How-To” from
Are You Using “NAC” like “No Access Control”?
An interesting reflexion about a situation I faced while performing a pentest for a customer. The scope was the internal network or “show me what an attacker could access from a rogue device“. A very wide scope indeed… The customer is using a NAC (“Network Access Control“) solution to allow
Your Passwords: To Be Or Not To Be… Safe?
The idea of this post came after I read another blog post from Light Blue Touchpaper. Picking a good password is a never-ending story. You can find multiple recipes, tips & tricks. One of the way, also promoted by Google is to create passwords based on quotes or common sentences.
Book Review: BT5 Wireless Penetration Testing
Finally, I found some time to write my review of another book: “BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing“. The book was written by Vivek Ramachadran. Good coincidence? Vivek was present during the last edition of BruCON and gave a workshop called “Wi-Fi malware for fun and profit“. Being quite busy during
Why Physical (Network) Security is Important?
When talking about security, companies often focus on the “security perimeter“. Inside this perimeter, you have the “good” guys and all the rest is considered as the “wild” world, the Internet. Once you passed the access controls, you are free to walk and do what you want. Can you approve
Yeti – Footprinting your Network
“Footprinting” is a technique to gather information about information systems. The goal is to collect as much information as possible and correlate them to build some kind of “business card” of the target. Relevant information are: DNS names, network topologies, software versions, localization and much more. To achieve footprinting, lot
Easy Decryption of Facebook Passwords
All good pentesters have their own “survival kit” with a lot of tools and scripts grabbed here and there. Here is a new one released a few days ago: FacebookPasswordDecryptor. “FacebookPasswordDecryptor – small, simple, free, and yet truly reliable application that helps you recover stored Facebook account passwords, quickly and