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The FBI Used the Web's Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users

The FBI Used the Web's Favorite Hacking Tool to Unmask Tor Users | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
For more than a decade, a powerful app called Metasploit has been the most important tool in the hacking world: An open-source Swiss Army knife of hacks that puts the latest exploits in the hands of anyone who’s interested, from random criminals to the thousands of security professionals who rely on the app to scour client networks for holes.

Now Metasploit has a new and surprising fan: the FBI. WIRED has learned that FBI agents relied on Flash code from an abandoned Metasploit side project called the “Decloaking Engine” to stage its first known effort to successfully identify a multitude of  suspects hiding behind the Tor anonymity network.


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http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=TOR


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For more than a decade, a powerful app called Metasploit has been the most important tool in the hacking world: An open-source Swiss Army knife of hacks that puts the latest exploits in the hands of anyone who’s interested, from random criminals to the thousands of security professionals who rely on the app to scour client networks for holes.

Now Metasploit has a new and surprising fan: the FBI. WIRED has learned that FBI agents relied on Flash code from an abandoned Metasploit side project called the “Decloaking Engine” to stage its first known effort to successfully identify a multitude of  suspects hiding behind the Tor anonymity network.


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http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=TOR


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Metasploit website hijacked by pro-Palestinian hackers... via fax

Metasploit website hijacked by pro-Palestinian hackers... via fax | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
Rapid7's Metasploit is the latest high profile website to fall foul of a pro-Palestinian group of hackers, who hijacked its DNS records.

And it seems the hackers used an old-fashioned fax message to commit their crime.
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Surely companies like Register.com and Network Solutions need to be a little wiser about the possible tricks hackers could use to mess with their customers’ web visitors?


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http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=KDMS-TEAM


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