BackTrack 4 Final Released

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

BackTrack 4 Final has now been released and aside from the many bug fixes, this version includes a new kernel, a larger and expanded toolset repository and custom tools that you can only find on BackTrack. Download: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/

The Penetration Testing Marketplace in 2010

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Vulnerability assessment vendor Rapid7 has announced the first of a series of steps to integrate its penetration testing and vulnerability assessment scanning products. The first step is a module that allows users of the Metasploit Framework, which Rapid7 acquired in October to natively import NeXpose scanner results and then take ...

VirtualBox 3.1.0 released

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Sun today released VirtualBox 3.1.0, a major update introducing teleportation, branched snapshots, 2D video acceleration for Windows guests, more flexible storage management and much more. See the ChangeLog for details. Download:http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Numerous vulnerabilities in VMware products

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

VMware has advised of a total of 93 vulnerabilities in several of its products, including ESX Server, Server, VirtualCenter and vCenter. Most of the vulnerabilities are in Java, Tomcat and the kernel and have been known for some time. Some of them can be exploited to compromise a system, however, ...

Jungle Disk Not Backing Up EFS Encrypted Files

Friday, November 20th, 2009

I've been using SyncToy to back up data to an external USB drive and then using Jungle Disk to back up the data to Amazon S3.  With the newest version of SyncToy (2.1) they fixed a bug for EFS and now files retain their encryption when copied to an NTFS ...