FOCA2: The FOCA Strikes Back

January 7, 2012 in Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing, Footprinting, Reconnaissance, Tutorials

FOCA is a tool to extract information in footprinting and fingerprinting phases during a penetration test. It helps auditors to extract and analyze information from metadata, hidden info and lost data in published files. This new release of FOCA, version 2, adds tools to scans internal domains using PTR Scanning, Software recognition through installation paths, etc. The idea of FOCA is to give as much info as can be discovered automatically starting from a public domain name.

 

[Tutorial] – Connect to HackIT IRC using FireFox ChatZilla Extension

December 19, 2011 in Uncategorized

Introduction – What is IRC?

In simple terms, IRC is a Chat program that allows users to communicate and exchange files. Users have to connect to an IRC Server and then join the Channel (similar to chat rooms) of their choice for discussion and group communication.

In this tutorial, we will cover how to connect to our IRC Channel (#HackIT-Lobby) which is available on chat4all.org Server. We will be using ChatZilla, which is a Firefox extension for IRC.

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ChatZilla Add-on for Mozilla FireFox

ChatZilla Add-on for Mozilla FireFox

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