[ad] At last a new major release of Nmap! If for some odd reason you don’t already know what Nmap is, it is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and […]
Archives for 2007
Microsoft Plugs 11 Serious Flaws in December Update
[ad] Seen as though we’ve been having a good bash on Microsoft recently, here’s some more relevant news. The December update from Microsoft has delivered patches for 11 series flaws spanning both IE6 & IE7 and all their currently supported operating systems (Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista). So if you are running Windows, […]
KisMAC – Free WiFi Stumbler/Scanner for Mac OS X
KisMAC is an opensource and free stumbler/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler/iStumbler/NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning. KisMAC supports several third party PCMCIA cards – Orinoco, PrismII, Cisco Aironet, Atheros and PrismGT. USB Prism2 is supported as well, and USB Ralink support is in development. […]
Serious Flaw in Popular Media Players from Microsoft and AOL
[ad] It looks like there is a fairly serious vulnerability in some of the popular media player packages out in the wild packaged as a MP4 file (due to the MP4 codec from 3ivx), it effects Windows Media Player 6.4 and Windows Media Player Classic, which are made by Microsoft, and AOL’s Winamp version 3.5. […]
scanrand – Download Stateless TCP Scanner with Syn Cookies
[ad] Scanrand is extremely quick and effective port scanner. It works by forking two distinct processes: One to send the initial queries One to receive responses and reconcile them from the above This makes it extremely fast. If you haven’t heard of the suite, Scanrand is one of the five tools in Paketto Keiretsu by […]