Researcher Project Spotlight - Mazen's Firefox Security Toolkit

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Today we’re putting the spotlight on @mazen160’s new project, the Firefox Security Toolkit. Mazen has been working on this project for awhile, turning the modern Firefox browser into a penetration testing toolkit.

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Why Prebuilt Browsers are Bad: Introducing Firefox Security Toolkit

In this post, I will be discussing why a professional penetration tester should not use OWASP Mantra nor HconSTF. I will also introduce “Firefox Security Toolkit”, a simple tool I have built that can be a very good replacement of these two projects, and provides a better security for the penetration tester too. What are OWASP Mantra and HconSTF? OWASP Mantra & HconSTF are browsers that is made specifically for penetration testers. It provides a large number of extensions that can help a penetr…