Wireshark 1.0.8 Released

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Version 1.0.8 of the Wireshark network protocol analyser has fixed a few bugs, including one that affects the processing of the PCNFSD protocol. Crafted packages can crash the PCNFSD dissector, and the developers classify this as a security vulnerability. A PCNFS server is contained in Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX, ...

Samurai Web Testing Framework 0.6 Released

Monday, May 18th, 2009

The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites. In developing this environment, we have based our tool selection ...

TrueCrypt 6.2 Released

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in 6.2: The I/O pipeline now uses read-ahead buffering, which improves read performance especially on solid-state drives, typically by 30-50%.  (Windows) Improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements: The boot loader now supports motherboards with BIOSes that reserve large amounts ...

Cain & Abel v4.9.30 Released

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...

Google Chrome update patches XSS vulnerability

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Mark Larson, the Google Chrome Project Manager, has posted an advisory on the Google Chrome Releases blog advising of a high risk vulnerability in the Chrome web browser. The cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability is caused by an error in handling URLs in the ChromeHTML URI handler, allowing an attacker to ...