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Technitium FREE MAC Address Changer v5 Released

Published at June 20, 2008 in Network Hacking, Applications and Security. 0 Comments

Technitium MAC Address Changer allows you to change Media Access Control (MAC) Address of your Network Interface Card (NIC) irrespective to your NIC manufacturer or its driver. It has a very simple user interface and provides ample information regarding each NIC in the machine. Every NIC has a MAC address hard coded in its circuit by the manufacturer. This hard coded MAC address is used by windows drivers to access Ethernet Network (LAN). This tool can set a new MAC address to your NIC, bypassing the original hard coded MAC address. Technitium MAC Address Changer is a must have tool in every security professionals tool box. Technitium MAC Address Changer is coded in Visual Basic 6.0.

Features

  • Support for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 added.
  • Allows you to remove all registry entries corresponding to Network Adapter that is no longer physically installed on the system.
  • Allows you to configure Internet Explorer HTTP proxy settings through configuration presets or command line.
  • Issues with installer program resolved. (Thanks to all your feedbacks)
  • Identifies the preset applied to currently selected Network Interface Card (NIC) automatically making it easy to identify settings.
  • Most known issues with Windows Vista removed. (Thanks to all your feedbacks)
  • Changes MAC address of Network Interface Card (NIC) including Wireless LAN Cards, irrespective of its manufacturer or its drivers.
  • Has latest list of all known manufacturers (with corporate addresses) to choose from. You can also enter any MAC address and know which manufacturer it belongs to.
  • Allows you to select random MAC address from the list of manufacturers by just clicking a button.
  • Restarts your NIC automatically to apply MAC address changes instantaneously.
  • Allows you to create Configuration Presets, which saves all your NIC settings and makes it very simple to switch between many settings in just a click and hence saves lot of time.
  • Allows you to Import or Export Configuration Presets to or from another file, which saves lot of time spent in reconfiguration.
  • Allows you to load any Configuration Presets when TMAC starts by just double clicking on any Configuration Preset File. (*.cpf file extension)
  • Has command line interface which allows you to perform all the tasks from the command prompt or you can even create a DOS batch program to carry out regular tasks. (see help for command line parameter details)
  • Allows you to export a detailed text report for all the network connections.
  • Displays all information you would ever need to know about your NIC in one view like Device Name, Configuration ID, Hardware ID, Connection Status, Link Speed, DHCP details, TCP/IP details etc.

You can download Technitium v5 here:

Technitium-MAC-Address-Changer

Or read more here.

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Wireshark v1.0.0 Released - Cross Platform Graphical Packet Sniffer

Published at April 14, 2008 in Network Hacking, Hacking Tools, Applications, Articles and Security. 0 Comments

After nearly 10 years of developement Wireshark (formely known as Ethereal) has finally reached version 1!

For those that don’t know, Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998.

Features

Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:

  • Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
  • Live capture and offline analysis
  • Standard three-pane packet browser
  • Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
  • Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
  • The most powerful display filters in the industry
  • Rich VoIP analysis
  • Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
  • Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
  • Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom)
  • Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
  • Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
  • Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

This is one tool EVERYONE involved in security or network administration should be familiar with.

You can download Wireshark here:

Wireshark v1.0.0

Or read more here.

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WSGW - Web Security Gateway for Secure Apache

Published at April 14, 2008 in Applications, Articles and Security. 0 Comments

The Web Security Gateway is a security-centric distribution of the Apache web server, bundled with additional security modules, and configured as a front-end (reverse) HTTP proxy. The goal is to mirror most of the features of commercial web application “firewalls”, with free and Open-Source software.

The Web Security Gateway provides a configurable caching, authentication, input validation, and IDS / IPS layer for web applications. It can be placed in front of diverse web environments, and is capable of protecting almost any web application, without modifications to the code running on the protected app.

Architecture

The concept of the WSGW is simple.

With Apache2, mod_filter and the integration of PCRE have made Apache extremely flexible as a content-aware application platform. Since Apache also has extensive support for proxying, it’s possible to create a front-end proxy that inspects, validates, and rewrites application content.

The WSGW can fill the gap for applications missing input validation layers, and give website administrators a first line of defense for both known and emerging attacks on web applications.

Since the WSGW will be the front-end for web traffic in a web environment, it’s also possible to integrate authentication, traffic reporting, SSL, and load balancing.

Shawn Moyer presented a talk on the WSGW concept at BlackHat USA 2006. The talk gives an overview of some of the ideas that led to the WSGW concept, and some configuration examples. You can download a copy of the talk here.

You can download WSGW here [PDF]

Initial build (bzip2)
Initial build (tar.gz)

Or read more here.

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.NETIDS - .NET Intrusion Detection System

Published at March 22, 2008 in Applications, Programming, Articles and Security. 0 Comments

This tool is another one on the side of protection, again for web-based applications but this time for .NET applications it’s called .NETIDS (.NET Intrusion detection System). This tool is capable of detecting on attacks on web applications and gives the developer the possibility to react. The project files include filter rules and function stubs to react on possible intrusions which may vary from logging to warning or redirecting the user.

The goal of this project is to provide am additional layer of protection to any .NET application this project is used with. This also includes the detection of XSS, directory traversal, SQL injections, protection against overwriting JS objects and methods, advanced logging functions, categorization and tagging of the single filter rules and interfaces for reacting on possible intrusions.

.NET IDS is a actually a port of PHPIDS, which we’ve mentioned before, to the .NET Framework. The library is fully CLS compliant and implements exactly the same filtering sets as the PHP version.

.NETIDS can be used in three ways.

The first method is by inheriting your ASP.NET pages from the SecurePage class. This offers an easy and customizable way to scan page input. If you are relatively new to the .NET Framework this is the simplest way to secure your applications.

The second method is more customizable but harder to implement for novice programmers and involves working directly with the IDS objects.

The third method (available in the upcoming release) is by using the supplied HttpModule.

You can find the documentation here:

http://www.the-mice.co.uk/dotnetids/docs/

You can download .NET IDS v.0.1.3.0 here:

dotnetids-bin-0_1_3_0.zip

Or you can read more here.

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Inguma 0.0.7.2 Released for Download - Penetration Testing Toolkit

Published at March 19, 2008 in Penetration Testing, Applications, Articles and Security. 0 Comments

For those that don’t know, Inguma is an open source penetration testing and vulnerability research toolkit written completely in Python. The environment is mainly oriented to attack Oracle related systems but, anyway, it can be used against any other kind of systems.

It’s becoming a mature and useful package! I’m glad to see continued developing and especially that they are concentrating on fixing bugs and improving the modules rather than adding loads of new features and just making it worse.

In this version there is new modules added, new exploits, many many bug fixes and the enhancing of existing modules, such as the Oracle related stuff.

PyShellcodelib has been enhanced as well and now supports Mac OS X. But, for the moment, just BSD syscalls. Mac syscalls implementation is on the way. You will also notice that it is now object oriented as opposed to the previous versions.

Among with the aforementioned changes, there are 5 new Oracle modules: 4 modules for bugs fixed in the Critical Patch Update of
January 2008 and one skr1pT k1|>i3 like module for the Oracle PL/SQL gateway flaw. Give to the module the target’s address and port and run “oragateway”. The module will automagically guess the correct DAD and bypass technique. After it an SQL terminal will be opened.

The new modules added to the framework are the following:

  • nikto: A plugin that uses Nikto based databases (Thanks you Sullo!).
  • archanix: As you may imagine, it gathers information from archaic Unix services.
  • brutesmtp: A brute forcer for SMTP servers.
  • anticrypt: A tool to guess the encryption algorithm of a password’s hash. It saves a lot of time when auditing passwords.

They are also getting the documentation together (this is the first release) on the Wiki here:

http://inguma.wiki.sourceforge.net

You can download Inguma 0.0.7.2 here:

Inguma 0.0.7.2

Or read more here.

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