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Cotopaxi – Tools For Security Testing Of Internet Of Things Devices

  Set of tools for security testing of Internet of Things devices using protocols like: CoAP, DTLS, HTCPCP, mDNS, MQTT, SSDP. Installation: Simply clone code from git: https://github.com/Samsung/cotopaxi Requirements: Currently Cotopaxi works only with Python 2.7.x, but future versions will work also with Python 3. If you have previous installation of scapy without scapy-ssl_tls, please remove it or […]

Biometric Security Platform Data Breach Leaked Millions of Users Facial Recognition & Fingerprinting Data

Security researchers discovered the biggest data breach in Biometric Security Platform BioStar 2 that leaks millions of users facial recognition records, fingerprints, log data, and other personal information. BioStar 2, a web-based biometric security smart lock platform by world’s biggest bio-access B2B company Suprema, and the platform used by UK Metropolitan police, defense contractors and […]

Your Smartphone’s Sensors Can Be Used To Track You

In a world where companies are hungry for user data and are adopting different mechanisms to legally or illegally get hold of it, privacy is a big concern. Advertisers often use unique identifiers like MAC addresses and IMEI numbers to form a profile for you. A technique called ‘device fingerprinting’ is used to collect data […]

OnePlus 7 Pro Fingerprint Scanner Hacked In a Minutes Using a Fake Fingerprint

OnePlus 7 Pro Fingerprint Scanner hacked within minutes using Fake Fingerprint that can be created using hot-glue due to inadequate security that is implemented in the OnePlus 7 Pro Fingerprinting unlock Feature. OnePlus, is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer based in  Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and it is one of the leading Smartphone manufacturers in the world. […]

Is Flawless Anonymity Possible?

The condition of being anonymous is called anonymity – Let’s suppose you want to post the most anonymous comment on a social network imaginable. What kind of tools do you need for that? VPN? Tor? SSH tunnel? In fact, none of the above. It suffices to purchase a burner SIM card and a used smartphone […]

Tor’s Anti-Fingerprinting Technique ‘Letterboxing’ Coming To Firefox 67

Once again, Mozilla has taken a leaf out of Tor browser’s handbook with the introduction of user anti-fingerprinting technique in Firefox 67 which is scheduled for a release this year in May. Dubbed ‘Letterboxing,’ this method protects against window-size related fingerprinting which is used for profiling and tracking users. For the uninitiated, browser fingerprinting means collection […]

HASSH – A Network Fingerprinting Standard Which Can Be Used To Identify Specific Client And Server SSH Implementations

“HASSH” is a network fingerprinting standard which can be used to identify specific Client and Server SSH implementations. The fingerprints can be easily stored, searched and shared in the form of an MD5 fingerprint. What can HASSH help with: Use in highly controlled, well understood environments, where any fingerprints outside of a known good set […]

WPHardening v1.6 – Fortify the security of any WordPress installation

Fortify the security of any WordPress installation.  This tool releases new versions on a regular basis. Make sure to update your dependencies frequently to get the latest version. Check out the changelog or CHANGELOG.md to learn about the new features. Installation Installing WPHardening requires you to execute one console command: $ pip install -r requirements.txt […]

Syhunt ScanTools 6.0 – Console Web Vulnerability Scan Tools

Syhunt ScanTools 6.0 adds advanced fingerprinting capabilities, enhanced spidering, injection and code scan capabilities, and a large number of improved checks. Adds the display of Hybrid, Dynamic and Code detailed scan statistics to the command-line tools. New fingerprinting capabilities – Because of the so many vulnerability checks and mutations added to this version, we developed an advanced […]

Websites need to ask permission to extract fingerprints from the user in Firefox 58

Canvas fingerprinting relies on websites meaning able to receive data from HTML canvas details calmly. In future, Firefox users will be required to give their approval before that wrenching can take place, just as users of the Tor Browser are. The community in behavior to Tor Browser is no chance. That privacy-first browser is really […]

psad – Intrusion Detection and Log Analysis with iptables

The Port Scan Attack Detector psad is a lightweight system daemon written in is designed to work with Linux iptables/ip6tables/firewalld firewalling code to detect suspicious traffic such as port scans and sweeps, backdoors, botnet command and control communications, and more. It features a set of highly configurable danger thresholds (with sensible defaults provided), verbose alert […]

Scannerl – Modular Distributed Fingerprinting Engine

Scannerl is a modular distributed fingerprinting engine implemented by Kudelski Security. Scannerl can fingerprint thousands of targets on a single host, but can just as easily be distributed across multiple hosts. Scannerl is to fingerprinting what zmap is to port scanning. Scannerl works on Debian/Ubuntu (but will probably work on other distributions as well). It uses […]