Posts by Avi

Top Tips for Your PenTest

This is a short list with some of the top tips for penetration testers. These are not technical tips, but rather tips for a correct work methodology. These are not presented in a specific order since they are all equally important and none should be disregarded while conducting and preparing for your pen-test.   Document EVERYTHING! When you get a work order, open up a new folder with the...

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Extreme GPG Key (16,384)

Extreme GPG Key (16,384)

So, as you most hackers love your privacy, and even if you are not a hacker, we still LOVE those big GPG keys. Only issue is that today, computers are growing stronger and stronger. In the GnuPG package, hardcoded is a limit of 4096-bit key generation. Ergo you cannot create a key bigger than 4,096-bit. So, we took the source of that nice ol’ GnuPG 1.4.12 and modified it to hard code a top...

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Automatic Nmap Installation

Okay, so lately we got a new Nmap version 6.25 which has better support in detecting Windows 7 services and Windows 8. For full change log at Nmap you can click here. Now, since it has not been pushed in the repository, and it can for now be updates only by SubVersion we built this for you. This will detect local Nmap version and latest Nmap version and will download the tarball, decompress it...

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NTLM for Linux

NTLM for Linux

So, got caught with a little project with my students. Trying to make an improved version of ‘combina’ which will also be able to output NTLM hashes and a bit more. Could not find a normal NTLM C lib in Linux, so took an old C++ script which I could not find the original writer so if someone can locate – that would be handy and nice, and changed it a bit. Now it’s in C...

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The Internet and Governments

The Internet and Governments

Background ( preferably dont skip this part ) The internet has changed our lives. The change is not yet over nor close to being over, but from being a 56k dial up modems of large entities and IT-savvy people (politically correct word for geeks) it had spread to every 14-yo teenager’s iPhone. Internet had become a part of our basic infrastructure such as water, electricity and suer systems....

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