Google Hacking
by CyberRad on Apr.15, 2012, under Security Tools, Website Defense
Google Dorks are advanced search parameters that you can use with Google’s search engine to narrow down a search. Google Hacking is the art of using Google Dorks to find specific information on Google’s databases. For example finding a known vulnerable version of a web application. (continue reading…)
What to do after your *nix web server has been compromised
by CyberRad on Dec.17, 2011, under Website Defense
I thought it would be nice to write about what you should do when your *nix server is compromised. The idea came from a conversation that was sparked on the Full Disclosure List. (continue reading…)
Using Rel1K’s Artillery To Protect Your Server
by CyberRad on Oct.26, 2011, under Website Defense
If you are looking for a way to secure your linux server from some of the most common attacks being carried out today against linux servers then look no further then Rel1K’s Artillery program. Artillery is a combination of a honeypot, file monitoring and integrity, alerting, and brute force prevention tool. (continue reading…)
How to perform a SQL Injection Attack
by CyberRad on Sep.26, 2011, under Security, Website Defense
SQL Injection (SQLi) is an attack vector that is extremely easy to carry out. Most of the breaches you see today are perpetrated this way yielding huge payloads of data. Understanding this attack will help you defend against this type of attack. (continue reading…)
Cracking the wireless network using aircrack-ng
by CyberRad on Aug.12, 2011, under Security Tools
Aircrack-ng is a suite of programs that allow for auditing of IEEE 802.11 networks. Below I will go over using the Aircrack-ng suit in Backtrack 5 to capture and crack WEP and WPA. (continue reading…)
Deter unwanted scanners/crawlers using Weblabyrinth
by CyberRad on Jun.30, 2011, under Website Defense
Weblabyrinth is a dynamic maze of web pages written in PHP. The main goal of Weblabyrinth is to delay and occupy malicious web scanners to give incident handlers time to investigate and respond to threats. Weblabyrinth is designed to show a 404 error to legitimate web crawlers based on the crawlers user-agent. Here is how you install and configure Weblabyrinth. (continue reading…)
Audit your site using w3af
by CyberRad on Jun.17, 2011, under Security Tools
Maintaining a website can be a large task. On the security side of the day to day tasks for the site you usually patch the web server and check the logs for potential issues. There are many automated tools that are out there scanning the internet for vulnerable web servers to compromise. Typically a compromised web server is turned into a spam serving server. What about your web application that you use to serve your content? Can you trust that it does not allow the attacker access to your web server? This is where w3af comes in. w3af attempts to find vulnerabilities in your web application using known attack methods. (continue reading…)