A while back a reader e-mailed us about a new site they have called Security Freak, the site is about informatin security education and is mostly using video lectures to illustrate and convey the lessons.
Security-Freak.net is an attempt to lower the entry barrier for starting computer security research. The author has noticed that during his [...]
Babel Enterprise is a systems auditing tool. Babel performs a security level check of the machine, or hardening. The check consists of a number of auditing tests that obtain a snap of the security status of each machine. The result is a security index of the system that is given after each execution. It a [...]
Redseal is launching a free offer next week for security consultants, pen testers and auditors.
Redseal develops a product called Security Risk Manager (SRM), it does the following - (non sales overview)
Imports firewall and router configuration files
Audits and checks them for errors, mis configurations, redundant rules, checks against best practices etc
Draws a network topography [...]
Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro is a step up from their Agnitum Outpost Firewall PRO
with a more wholistic look at security.
The suite also includes pre-emptive threat protection, anti-spam protection and safe-surfing.
The Software is fairly sizeable at around 36MB, you can download it here, for a 30 day free trial.
As I’ve mentioned before I think [...]
Recently GFI launched a free, online portable storage device scanner called EndPointScan.
http://www.endpointscan.com
EndPointScan, is an industry-first, free online service that allows anyone to check what devices are or have been connected to computers on their network and by whom.
Using this diagnostic tool, one can identify those areas where the use of portable storage devices could pose [...]
Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro is a software based firewall I respect a lot, and used to actually use…It used to be fairly light weight, secure and had some good features the other firewalls at the time didn’t have (system file integrity checking and so on).
But nowadays with NAT routers, the need for desktop firewalls is [...]
There are not many good tools for replaying traffic, most people use WireShark (formely known as Ethereal) for capturing the traffic, but what happens if you want to take that capture and reply it over the wire?
Someone has this problem so they decided to code their own solution, thankfully for us! There are quite a [...]
Data security giant McAfee has bought a young Tel Aviv startup, Onigma, for somewhere between $15 million to $25 million cash, surmise hi-tech circles.
McAfee will be integrating the Onigma technology in its enterprise security solution, and will be recruiting dozens more Israeli developers for the startup, which will become a local R&D center.
Onigma was founded [...]
No surprise really? Microsoft and they monopoly strategies, anti-competitive behaviour, nothing new really is it?
Microsoft and its security rivals are feuding over a key piece of Windows Vista real estate.
The fight is over the display of technology that helps Vista owners manage the security tools on their PC. Symantec, McAfee, Check Point Software Technologies and [...]
If you are paranoid about people ARP spoofing or flooding on your network you can use ARPWatch-NG, ARPWatch-NG is a continue of the popular original ARPWatch from ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/.
ARPWatch monitors MAC adresses on your network and writes them into a file, last know timestamp and change notification is included.
It can be used it to monitor for [...]
