OSINT or Open Source Intelligence gathering is a significant first step in any penetration test or organizational vulnerability assessment. It involves gathering information related to the target and pinpointing potential access points or targets of opportunity that would eventually allow full access to the organization’s computing assets. Profiling a target organization can be done in [...]
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HackerTarget.com – Online BlindElephant and WhatWeb Scanning
There are literally hundreds of thousands of websites running old web applications that are running vulnerable code just waiting to be hacked. It might start with a quick forum install or content management system that will keep running for years. If there were any bugs in the code, and it is a common application they [...]
Sqlmap 0.8 Released and Rolled out to HackerTarget.com servers
After discovering the new release of the excellent SQL Injection tool sqlmap I have done some testing and rolled it out to the HackerTarget.com scanning servers. If you are not familiar with the power of sqlmap head over to the sourceforge site for demo videos and some top notch documentation. Our scanning tools are configured [...]
Web Scanner Comparison
An interesting report has been released that takes a sample of web application security testing applications and puts them up against each other. The most notably thing is how much the results vary, and how many vulnerabilities most scanners miss. Clearly using more than one scanner is necessary to be able to compare the results, [...]
Mozilla Service Week
An online volunteering initiative by the Mozilla foundation is a great initiative intending to bring online volunteering together with organisations and individuals requiring assistance. We believe the Internet should make life better. Join us the week of September 14-21, 2009, as we take action to make a difference in our communities, our world, our Web. [...]
New Whitepaper Released – Security Scanning Tools Overview
HackerTarget.com has now performed well over 10’000 free vulnerability scans, we now have a tool box of 6 different scanning options and each provides a different type of security test. Analysis of our scan history shows many of our users do not fully understand the role of each different tool. So we have released a [...]
Nmap 5.00 added to HackerTarget.com Scanning Suite
Hot off the forges of Fyodor comes the latest release of the worlds leading port scanner. Nmap 5.00 has been released, and we have immediately implemented it here at HackerTarget.com. Keep an eye out as we explore some of the new features, we will be sure to implement them here, keeping HackerTarget.com the number one [...]
