Sunday, June 7th, 2009 NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows that can detect the OS, hostname and open ports of network hosts through packet sniffing or by parsing a PCAP file. NetworkMiner can also extract transmitted files from network traffic.New functionalities in the v 0.88 release are:Support for the Cisco ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Researchers for some time have demonstrated the possibility of one of virtualization's worst nightmares -- a guest virtual machine (VM) infiltrating and hacking its host system. Now another commercial tool is offering an exploit that does exactly that.The newest version of Immunity's Canvas commercial penetration testing tool, v6.47, includes the ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 Network administrators and security specialists have long had tools and software for analyzing the streams of traffic that course through company systems, but now a Marlborough, Massachusetts, startup wants to make the process a lot easier.Dejavu Technologies recently released TrafficScape, an appliance that grabs network packets and converts them into ...
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009 VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009 Polish researchers have described a way of hiding information in retransmissions of IP-based data traffic. Transmission errors are simulated in a TCP connection to provoke retransmissions and, before packets are retransmitted, their content is replaced with data intended to be concealed.With the steganographic protocol known to both sender and receiver, ...
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