Hackers are switching targets now, companies are getting too hard to break into due to the availability of decently configured perimeter kit like firewalls and IDS.
Plus the information they do get if they manage to break in is often worthless commercially and really not worth the effort.
So instead, they target the end user, home bankers, [...]

It’s good to see work on open source tools in the countermeasure department aswell as the attack and penetration arena.
It’s a shame since Snort and Nessus have gone semi-commercial.

I hope more people invest their time in good IDS, Firewall and IPS systems, I love things like IPCop and hope to see more products like HLBR.
HLBR [...]

Another good tool updated! TCPReplay suite 3.0.beta10 has been released.
For those that don’t know Tcpreplay is a suite of BSD licensed tools written by Aaron Turner for *NIX operating systems which gives you the ability to use previously captured traffic in libpcap format to test a variety of network devices. It allows you to classify [...]

What? New vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer?
You can hack Internet Exploder Explorer? Never!

3Com Corp’s TippingPoint division has discovered and disclosed two critical new vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer through 3Com’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).
The vulnerabilities could have allowed an attacker to gain control of a PC if the user was logged in with administrative rights. [...]