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GNUCITIZEN is a recognized ethical hacker
Hacker (computer security)
In computer security and everyday language, a hacker is someone who breaks into computers and computer networks. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, including profit, protest, or because of the challenge...

 outfit based in London
London
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, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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 and Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, Germany
Germany
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.

About

GNUCITIZEN is a non-profit organization which is based around a Blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

 network consisting of several popular information security related sites. The GNUCITIZEN group has made some discoveries in the past related to technologies such as CITRIX, GMail , BT Home Hub
BT Home Hub
The BT Home Hub is a wireless residential gateway router distributed by BT. It is based on the Wi-Fi 802.11n standard, and is also backwards compatible with 802.11g and 802.11b. All Models of the Home Hub prior to the Home Hub 3.0 support VoIP Internet calls via BT's Broadband Talk service and are...

, UPnP, SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol
Simple Network Management Protocol is an "Internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks. Devices that typically support SNMP include routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers, modem racks, and more." It is used mostly in network management systems to monitor...

, PDF , etc. Today, GNUCITIZEN is one of the still existing and active organizations among other groups such as CULT OF THE DEAD COW
Cult of the Dead Cow
Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc or cDc Communications, is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas. The group maintains a weblog on its site, also titled "Cult of the Dead Cow"...

, L0pht
L0pht
L0pht Heavy Industries was a hacker collective active between 1992 and 2000 and located in the Boston, Massachusetts area.-Name:The second character in its name was originally a slashed zero, a symbol used by old teletypewriters and some character mode operating systems to mean zero...

, The Hackers Choice, and others. Unlike old-school hacker groups, the GNUCITIZEN outfit goal is to create a healthy community of gifted individuals. The outfit is an active supporter of the Hackers for Charity group, OWASP
OWASP
The Open Web Application Security Project is an open-source application security project. The OWASP community includes corporations, educational organizations, and individuals from around the world. This community works to create freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and...

 and other none-profit and charity entities, according to their about page.

History

GNUCITIZEN is founded by Petko D. Petkov, also known as pdp, in 2005. In 2006, the projects grows into a blog using the popular Wordpress
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...

 blogging platform. The blog quickly gets momentum due to its unique content and writing style. In the course of a year, the GNUCITIZEN blog becomes a major source of cutting-edge information security research primarily based around browser, client-side, Web
World Wide Web
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 and Web2.0 technologies. In 2007 GNUCITIZEN.ORG turns into an organization under the name of "GNUCITIZEN | Cutting-edge Think Tank | Ethical Hacker Outfit". At that time the GNUCITIZEN team consists of 5 members in total, representing hundreds of blog posts on various topics, several noteworthy papers, numerous publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities and two printed best-selling books. In 2008, due to popular demand, GNUCITIZEN.ORG grows into GNUCITIZEN.COM, the "Commercial, Unobtrusive Entity", and GNUCITIZEN.NET, the Network, also known as the Group. Today, GNUCITIZEN is recognized as one of the most influential opinion making/forming bodies in the spheres of information security, black public relations
Public relations
Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....

 (Black PR), public relations security, and hacker culture, style and way of life.

Organization

The group itself is split among several domains. The GNUCITIZEN organization (.ORG) is one of the most vivid and influentialnone-profit information security and hacker culture opinion-making/forming bodies in the world. The .COM domain is a commercial side-effect of the .ORG domain which works independently. The commercial entity was spawned due to the high demand of GNUCITIZEN branded services. The Network or the Group (.NET) combines and provides access to other GNUCITIZEN supported domains and projects such as Hakiri, the Hacker Lifestyle initiative, and Spin Hunters, Public Relations Security and Black PR research house.

The current GNUCITIZEN Network includes the following members:

Books written by Members of the GNUCITIZEN group


Events where GNUCITIZEN members have spoken

  • OWASP
    OWASP
    The Open Web Application Security Project is an open-source application security project. The OWASP community includes corporations, educational organizations, and individuals from around the world. This community works to create freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and...

  • Black Hat
    Black Hat Briefings
    The Black Hat Conference is a computer security conference that brings together a variety of people interested in information security. Representatives of federal agencies and corporations attend along with hackers. The Briefings take place regularly in Las Vegas, Barcelona and Tokyo...

  • DEF CON
  • Hack in the Box
  • CONFidence
    Confidence
    Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self-confidence is having confidence in oneself. Arrogance or hubris in this comparison, is having unmerited...

  • ph-neutral


GNUCITIZEN members have participated in many others local meetings and events. The outfit is most active in the UK.

Noteworthy Tools and Projects produced by GNUCITIZEN

  • Agile Hacking - The projects aims to use crowd-sourcing technique to aggregate the knowledge of the masses in order to produce the best hacking reference online.

  • Router Hacking Challenge - The results of the router hacking challenge are numerous vulnerabilities effective popular routers and embedded devices around the world.

  • Renaissance - The best Web2.0 hacking tools online.

  • For my next trick… hacking Web2.0 - Paper on Web2.0 hacking tricks and techniques.

  • PHPIDS - Monitoring attack surface activity - A white-paper about the PHPIDS
    PHPIDS
    PHPIDS is an open source PHP Web Application Intrusion Detection System. It was written by Mario Heiderich, Christian Matthies, Lars H. Strojny and several others in March 2007...

     open source software

  • GHDB - The online Google Hacking
    Google Hacking
    Google hacking is a computer hacking technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites use.- Basics :...

     Database tools. http://www.gnucitizen.org/ghdb/application.htm






  • Jython Shell, The Python Shell in the Browser - Python shell that runs inside a browser. Suitable for dynamic penetration testing of devices, kiosks and foreign networks.

  • Massive Enumeration Toolset - Python based toolkit for discovering, processing and enumerating targeted networks or individuals.

  • PHP Code Analysis: Real World Examples - Project exploring practical PHP exploitation techniques.

  • phpMyAdminRCE - Remote command execution exploit for phpMyAdmin.

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