WordPress.org have a post up detailing the “state of the word”. Around the same time we have been putting a wordpress infographic that highlights some of the findings from our analysis of wordpress usage among the top 100K sites (as rated by Alexa). WordPress Usage in the Top 100K Infographic
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Secure WordPress
WordPress Scanner is the latest tool added to our kit. It can be used to test the security of your wordpress installation from an external perspective. No plugin installation is required, our systems will do an external passive analysis of your wordpress installation and highlight wordpress security issues along with recommendations to improve the security [...]
New OpenVas Report Option
OpenVas is one the most popular tools we have online, and is an excellent way to perform a thorough vulnerability scan of a system to determine if there are any security issues or holes present. We have in the past couple of weeks added a new “Enhaned PDF” reporting option to our scanner, that is [...]
Web Tech 2011 – Part 2
google.load(“visualization”, “1″, {packages:["corechart"]}); google.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart); function drawChart() { var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(); data.addColumn(‘string’, ‘Type’); data.addColumn(‘number’, ‘Top 1 million’); data.addColumn(‘number’, ‘Netcraft’); data.addColumn(‘number’, ‘Fortune 1K’); data.addRows([ ['Apache', 66.3, 60.1, 28.5], ['IIS', 17.3, 20.0, 55.1], ['nginx', 7.5, 7.6, 0.5], ['Google', 3.0, 5.1, 0.1], ['LiteSpeed', 1.1, 0, 0], ['lighttpd', 0.5, 0.7, 0.1], ['IBM HTTP', 0.3, 0, 7.7], ]); var [...]
Web Tech 2011 Report
The HackerTarget.com Web Tech 2011 Report has just been released. This is the first edition of the report and aims to provide insight into the web technologies in use by the worlds most popular websites. Based on the Alexa top 1 million sites; content management system popularity, web servers, server side scripting, web development frameworks, [...]
dnsdumpster.com launched for osint recon
DNSDumpster.com is the latest reporting tool from HackerTarget.com. We have built an open source intelligence gathering tool that will profile a domain name and produce an easy to read report about related systems and publicly available information about that domain. If you want more information have a look at the about page; otherwise head over [...]
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Apache to Nginx and other updates
It has been a busy week here; firstly we have migrated our main web site hosting from Slicehost to Linode. Better price and performance being the main reason. I have had no problems with Slicehost having been with them since before the Rackspace takeover. On the other hand I have heard only good things from [...]
Hack your org in 60 minutes
Often times the users of HackerTarget.com are not experts in the realm of vulnerability assessments. In fact many are not sure where to start and are confronted with a bunch of free tools available online for immediate use. The tools have a variety of different uses leaving beginners unsure of where to begin. I have [...]
