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Archives for January 2007
MTR – Traceroute on Steroids
MTR was written by Matt Kimball, with contributions by many people. Take a look at the “AUTHORS” file in the distribution. Roger Wolff took over maintenance of MTR in october 1998. MTR combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool. As MTR starts, it investigates the network connection […]
Organised Cyber Criminals Recruiting Fresh Grads
[ad] Criminals are not stupid, cyber criminals are the same breed, perhaps even smarter than the traditionalists as they are utilising new ways of doing the same old tricks online. Now the online criminals are recruiting fresh grads to help them push the boundaries further. Organised crime is “grooming” a new generation of would-be cybercriminals […]
LMCrack – Windows LanMan Hash Cracker Tool with Download
As a security consultant, job functions include Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments. The aim of these types of engagements is to demonstrate risk to the customer. One of the steps involved in demonstrating risk is password auditing (“cracking”) in order to assess the strength and quality of passwords in use in the environment. On a […]
Serious Exploit in Windows Media Player (WMP)
[ad] Oh look! Another 0-day in Windows…this time in Media Player, there was a few in Word lately and the latest thing that just hit is an XSS flaw in PDF files online. I’ll report more on those later. The Windows Media Player library WMVCORE.DLL contains a potentially exploitable heap buffer overflow in its handling […]