We all love Patch Tuesday – no doubt about that right? Well Microsoft has blessed us this month with the biggest Patch Tuesday in the history of the program. That’s a good thing because it’s had some horribly effective vulnerabilities revealed lately. It managed to package up a massive bundle of patches for 64 vulnerabilities […]
Archives for 2011
RawCap – Free Command Line Packet/Network Sniffer For Windows (Raw Sockets)
RawCap is a free command line network sniffer for Windows that uses raw sockets. Features Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback) RawCap.exe is just 17 kB No external libraries or DLL’s needed other than .NET Framework 2.0 No installation required, just download RawCap.exe and sniff Can sniff most […]
TJX Hacker Albert Gonzalez Claims Government Made Him Do It
The latest news from the tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy camp is that Albert Gonzalez the TJX hacker who was convicted in 2009 was authorized to hack by the US Government. Back in 2009 we posted about that too – TJX Hacker Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez Indicted By Federal Grand Jury. And now he’s saying his actions […]
DRIL – Domain Reverse IP Lookup Tool
DRIL (Domain Reverse IP Lookup) Tool is a Reverse Domain Tool that will really be useful for penetration testers to find out the domain names which are listed in the the target host, DRIL is a GUI, JAVA based application which uses a Bing API key. DRIL has a simple user friendly interface which will […]
Google Chrome To Protect Users Against Malicious Executables
It looks like Google Chrome is stepping up to provide users with the most secure browsing experience. The browser has been built with security in mind since the beginning with it’s sandbox model and it escaped exploitation during the recent Pwn2Own contest. Now they are infringing on the area of anti-virus vendors and stepping up […]