Inguma Is Back – The Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Research Toolkit

Inguma is back and being actively developed again. It’s been quite a long time, far too long in fact. We first reported about Inguma way back in 2007 and our latest mention of it was in March 2008.
A new version has just been released almost 3 years later with some major changes and a big GUI revamp. Inguma is a penetration testing toolkit entirely written in python. The framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force user names and passwords and, of course, exploits. While the current exploitation capabilities in Inguma may be limited, this program provides numerous tools for information gathering and target auditing.
There are some good docs to get you up and running too:

• Installation Guide
• Getting Started
• Console Quick Start
• GUI Quick Start
• Full Documentation

The announcement from the developers blog is here:
We are back
You can download Inguma 0.2 here:
inguma-0.2.tar.gz

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sqlmap 0.9 Released – Automatic Blind SQL Injection Tool

It’s been a while since we’ve written about sqlmap, the last time was when 0.7 was released back in July 2009 – sqlmap 0.7 Released – Automatic SQL Injection Tool.
Well sqlmap 0.9 has been released and has a considerable amount of changes including an almost entirely re-written SQL Injection detection engine.
For those that aren’t familiar with the tool, sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a kick-ass detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.
New Features/Changes

• Rewritten SQL injection detection engine (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Support to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, -d switch (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Added full support for both time-based blind SQL injection and error-based SQL injection techniques (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Implemented support for SQLite 2 and 3 (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Implemented support for Firebird (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Implemented support for Microsoft Access, Sybase and SAP MaxDB (Miroslav).
• Added support to tamper injection data with –tamper switch (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Added automatic recognition of password hashes format and support to crack them with a dictionary-based attack (Miroslav).
• Added support to fetch unicode data (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Added support to use persistent HTTP(s) connection for speed improvement, –keep-alive switch (Miroslav).
• Implemented several optimization switches to speed up the exploitation of SQL injections (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Support to parse and test forms on target url, –forms switch (Bernardo and Miroslav).
• Added switches to brute-force tables names and columns names with a dictionary attack, –common-tables and –common-columns.

The complete changelog is available for viewing here.
You can also download the user manual here [PDF] – sqlmap README
You can download sqlmap 0.9 here:
sqlmap-0.9.tar.gz

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