Sunday, January 13, 2013

CERT Failure Observation Engine (FOE) – Mutational Fuzzing Tool

The CERT Failure Observation Engine (FOE) is a software testing tool that finds defects in applications that run on the Windows platform. FOE performs mutational fuzzing on software that consumes file input. (Mutational fuzzing is the act of taking well-formed input data and corrupting it in various ways, looking for cases that cause crashes.) The FOE automatically collects test cases that cause software to crash in unique ways, as well as debugging information associated with the crashes. The goal of FOE is to minimize the effort required for software vendors and security researchers to efficiently discover and analyze security vulnerabilities found via fuzzing.

Note: this software package contains both the source code for the distribution and a binary installer package for Windows. The installer package will attempt to install FOE and all of its dependent software packages on the system. If you wish to evaluate the binary installer, it is highly advisable to do so on a non-enterprise system devoted solely to testing. An ISO image is also available for convenient use within a Windows virtual machine instance.

At the CERT/CC, we have already used the FOE infrastructure to find a number of critical vulnerabilities in products such as Adobe Reader, Flash Player, and Shockwave player; Microsoft Office and Windows; Google Chrome; Oracle Outside In; Autonomy Keyview IDOL; Apple QuickTime; and many others.
Note: Because fuzzing can fill temporary directories, put the target application in an unusable state, or trigger other operating-system-level bugs, we recommend that FOE be used in a virtual machine.


You can download FOE here:
http://www.cert.org/vuls/discovery/foe.html

 Happy Hunting!!!!

Friday, November 16, 2012

Hack.me – Build, Host & Share Vulnerable Web Application Code

Hack.me is a FREE, community based project powered by eLearnSecurity. The community allows you to build, host and share vulnerable web application code for educational and research purposes.
It aims to be the largest collection of “runnable” vulnerable web applications, code samples and CMS’s online. The platform is available without any restriction to any party interested in Web Application Security: students, universities, researchers, penetration testers and web developers.


Features
  • Upload your own code
  • Online IDE for PHP & MySQL
  • Your code hosted in the cloud
  • FREE!!
  • Practice webapp security
  • Isolated enviroment
  • Online: nothing to download!
Safety
Every time you run a new Hackme the site will initiate a new sandbox for you. You will get isolated access to it so that you will always know that the application is safe for you to use. No other students can add malware or exploits in your sandbox. This ensures 99% safety.
What about the 1%? While the team makes the best effort to moderate every and each new web app uploaded on Hack.me, chances are that something can and will slip through. If you are not 100% comfortable to trust us or the Hackme developer, please just run new Hackmes from a virtual machine or from a non production OS.
We have written about a variety of web apps where you can practice your hack-fu such as:
you can try and feel it , up to you to decide the best:
https://hack.me/ 

Happy Hunting

Thursday, October 25, 2012

BackBox Linux 3.0 - penetration testing and forensic analysis tasks

Raffaele Forte has announced the release of BackBox Linux 3.0, a specialist Ubuntu-based live DVD designed for penetration testing and forensic analysis tasks: "The BackBox team is pleased to announce the major release of BackBox Linux, version 3.0. The major release include features such as Linux kernel 3.2 and Xfce 4.8. Apart from the system major upgrade, all auditing tools are up to date as well. What's new: system upgrade; bug corrections; performance boost; improved start menu; improved Wi-Fi drivers (compat-wireless aircrack patched); new and updated hacking tools. System requirements: 32-bit or 64-bit processor; 512 MB of system memory; 4.4 GB of disk space for installation; graphics card capable of 800x600 pixel resolution; DVD-ROM drive or USB port." Here is the brief release announcement.
 you can try download here:-

Download: backbox-3.0-i386.iso (1,099MB, MD5)
                  backbox-3.0-amd64.iso (1,100MB, MD5).


 

for more pictures click here http://www.backbox.org/gallery/backbox-linux-2