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When it comes to security vulnerability assessments against content management systems, it becomes necessary to discover which plugins are being used within the system. For the most popular open source systems (wordpress, drupal, joomla) there are literally thousands of plugins available and many have lets admit it not the best record when it comes to […]

Having done some initial testing this new tool is powerful and comprehensive. It blends a number of other tool features into a neat little package. I did some testing on my local LAN and the web server was getting pounded with thousands of requests per second. Your access and error.log is really going to fill […]

Linux has brought a wonderful concept to the world of computers and that is easy to use live cd's that allow you to boot up a fully operational operating system that does not require installation to the hard drive. Ubuntu, SuSe, Mandriva and Fedora all have boot-able Live CD options that allow you to test […]

Maltego makes the collection of open source intelligence about a target organisation a simple matter. DNS queries, document collection, email addresses, whois, search engine interrogation, and a wide range of other collection methods allows a Penetration Tester, or vulnerability assessment, to quickly gather and find relationships between the data. Maltego is an open source intelligence […]

You would be surprised at what people leave unprotected on a web server. What is Dirbuster DirBuster is a project by OWASP that will brute force web directories and filenames on a web server / virtual host. This can often reveal unprotected web applications, scripts, old configuration files and many other interesting things that should […]