[ad] Bruter 1.0 BETA 1 has been released. Bruter is a parallel login brute-forcer. This tool is intended to demonstrate the importance of choosing strong passwords. The goal of Bruter is to support a variety of services that allow remote authentication. Bruter is a tool for the Win32 platform only. PROTOCOL SUPPORT It currently supports […]
Archives for January 2008
Multilingual Worm Spreads Over MSN Messenger
[ad] Another MSN worm spreading with the same tactics as usual, “Wanna see my pictures before i send em to facebook?” and so on. The only really interesting thing about this worm is it sends the message in the language of the locale installed on the infected machine, this is pretty intelligent and is much […]
Metasploit Framework v3.1 Released for Download
[ad] Ah Metasploit development cycle seems to be picking up, I guess with greater community support the bugs get ironed out and the new features introduced faster. Good to see an update so soon after Metasploit Framework v3.0 was released. I keep closely up to date with Metasploit as it’s pretty much the best free […]
Data Leakage Bug in Mozilla Firefox Confirmed
[ad] It seems a data leakage bug has struck Firefox recently and has been confirmed by Window Snyder the security bod at Mozilla. It’s basically a Chrome directory traversal bug (It seems a lot of the Firefox issues have had to do with chrome?). It’s rated as low risk, but it can give away the […]
argus – Auditing Network Activity – Performance & Status Monitoring
[ad] Another tool for the security side, good for forensics, monitoring and auditing. Argus is a fixed-model Real Time Flow Monitor designed to track and report on the status and performance of all network transactions seen in a data network traffic stream. Argus provides a common data format for reporting flow metrics such as connectivity, […]