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30 most popular Drupal themes in Top 1M websites

In this list of popular Drupal Themes in the Alexa Top 1 million, I have tallied the number of Drupal themes based on the path of the theme installation. Drupal theme counts were determined by analysing the html of the root pages in the top 1 million websites and extracting the default Drupal theme path […]
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11 years ago

Malware in WordPress Themes

Found an interesting article over at OttoPress with some in depth analysis of malware discovered in a theme on a less than reputable WordPress theme site. Seems there are some dodgey sites out there that have infected themes, both free ones and ripped off professional themes. Beware and check the reputation of your themes. It […]
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12 years ago

Brute Forcing Passwords with ncrack, hydra and medusa

Ready to test a number of password brute-forcing tools? Passwords are often the weakest link in any system and ultimately brute-force. Testing for weak passwords is an important part of security vulnerability assessments. This article will focus on tools that allow remote service brute-forcing. These are typically Internet facing services that are accessible from anywhere […]
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12 years ago

Metasploit 3.4.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 a quick introduction

Perhaps you have heard of metasploit. It is a very powerful exploitation framework developed by HD Moore. Solid growth has seen an early version that was a few exploits in a perl based wrapper turn into a ruby coded framework that is competing with Core Impact and Canvas in the pen-testing community. Here is a […]
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13 years ago