VirtualBox 3.0.0 Released

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products 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 ...

Wireshark 1.2 Released

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark 1.2.0 has been released. This is the new stable release branch of Wireshark and many new and exciting features have been added since 1.0 was released. In ...

Nessus v4.0.1 Released

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

The Nessus vulnerability scanner, is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks. Fixes: Fixed memory & register leaks in NASL nessus-fetch ...

NetworkMiner 0.88 Released

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 ...

Hacking Tool Lets A VM Break Out And Attack Its Host

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 ...