For all you wordpress lovers we have added wpscan to our existing WordPress Security Scan. WPScan is a handy wordpress focused vulnerability scanner developed by Ryan Dewhurst (ethicalhack3r.co.uk). The scan uses techniques that include brute forcing the plugins directory of a wordpress installation to find installed plugins. This is an accurate way to find plugins [...]
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Monitor Internet facing systems with regular port scanning
How do you know if something changes on your external services? We have launched our new monitoring tool; use it to alert you to changes that occur on your network perimeter or Internet facing servers. Systems administrators and security teams should be aware of what services are available from the Internet. With regular monitoring you [...]
IPv6 added to online port scanner
Our online nmap port scanner is now IPv6 capable. Nmap has had the ability to scan IPv6 ip addresses for some time now and recently Linode also added IPv6 to its VPS offerings. These additions mean we can now provide on-line port scanning of both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses or Host names that have an [...]
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, [...]
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Port scanning is one of the most common reconnaissance techniques used by testers to discover the vulnerabilities in the services listening at well-known ports.
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