Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows

Google Chrome (BETA) for WindowsGoogle Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.Google says Chrome will provide more speed, stability and security for Web users, and combined with Google Gears, which allows users to take Web-based applications offline.Chrome also is fuelling talk about where Google itself is headed. Some say Google's effort may be as much proof-of-concept as future product in terms of showing Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple and others what can be done, and prodding them to upgrade their own browser software.Still others believe there will eventually be a showdown with Microsoft and a Google end-run at building an enterprise computing business. Clearly...

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IPNetInfo v1.16 - Retrieves IP Address Information

IPNetInfo is a small utility that allows you to easily find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more.This utility can be very useful for finding the origin of unsolicited mail. You can simply copy the message headers from your email software and paste them into IPNetInfo utility. IPNetInfo automatically extracts all IP addresses from the message headers, and displays the information about these IP addresses.How does it work ?The IP address information is retrieved by sending a request to the whois server of ARIN. If ARIN doesn't maintain the information about the requested IP address, a second request...

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Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities. Automated scans may be supplemented and cross-checked with the variety of manual tools to allow for comprehensive web site and web application penetration testing.if web applications are not secure, then your entire database of sensitive information is at serious risk. Why?Websites and related web applications must be available 24 x 7 to provide the required service to customers, employees, suppliers and other stakeholdersFirewalls and SSL provide no protection against web application hacking, simply because access to the website has to be made publicWeb applications...

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Zenmap

Zenmap is the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI. It is a multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc.) free and open source application which aims to make Nmap easy for beginners to use while providing advanced features for experienced Nmap users. Frequently used scans can be saved as profiles to make them easy to run repeatedly. A command creator allows interactive creation of Nmap command lines. Scan results can be saved and viewed later. Saved scan results can be compared with one another to see how they differ. The results of recent scans are stored in a searchable database.You can download Zenmap (often packaged with Nmap itself) from the Nmap download page. Zenmap is quite intuitive, but you can learn more about using it...

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L0phtcrack

L0phtcrack : Windows password auditing and recovery applicationL0phtCrack, also known as LC5, attempts to crack Windows passwords from hashes which it can obtain (given proper access) from stand-alone Windows NT/2000 workstations, networked servers, primary domain controllers, or Active Directory. In some cases it can sniff the hashes off the wire. It also has numerous methods of generating password guesses (dictionary, brute force, etc). LC5 was discontinued by Symantec in 2006, but you can still find the LC5 installer floating around. The free trial only lasts 15 days, and Symantec won't sell you a key, so you'll either have to cease using it or find a key generator. Since it is no longer maintained, you are probably better...

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THC Hydra

THC Hydra : A Fast network authentication cracker which support many different services.When you need to brute force crack a remote authentication service, Hydra is often the tool of choice. It can perform rapid dictionary attacks against more then 30 protocols, including telnet, ftp, http, https, smb, several databases, and much more. Like THC Amap this release is from the fine folks at T...

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John the Ripper

John the Ripper : A powerful, flexible, and fast multi-platform password hash cracker John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes. Several other hash types are added with contributed patches. You will want to start with some wordlists, which you can f...

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Preventing SQL Injection Attacks

Keep your code secure against intruders. In this article we provide examples of SQL injection attacks and how you can write code to prevent them. Stop people from getting information from your database.In a previous article we provided some examples of how intruders will try to attack your site using Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. In an XSS attack, the attacker tries to use client-side methods of injecting client-side script and then high-jacking a user's session. Now, we're going to provide some examples of a server-side attack where an intruder will try to obtain information from within your database. After the examples, we will go through methods of securing your code against these types of attacks.SQL injection attacks take advantage of code that does not filter input that is being...

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Crack Windows Password With Back|track

BackTrack is the most Top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.It's evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions - Whax and Auditor Security Collection. By joining forces and replacing these distributions, BackTrack has gained massive popularity and was voted in 2006 as the #1 Security Live Distribution by insecure.org. Security professionals as well as new comers are using BackTrack as their favorite toolset all over the globe.BackTrack has a long history and was based on many different linux distributions until it is now based on a Slackware linux distribution and the corresponding...

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