[ad] Microsoft helping the good guys eh? I had someone ask me if I can get a hold of this so I did some checking up on.. I’d guess MS is doing this to sell additional software and services, but either way its a good thing to make a portable, easy to use and effective […]
Forensics
NetworkMiner – Passive Sniffer & Packet Analysis Tool for Windows
NetworkMiner is a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool for Windows with an easy to use interface. It can detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting any traffic on the network. NetworkMiner can also parse PCAP files for off-line analysis. NetworkMiner makes use of OS fingerprinting databases from both p0f (by Michal Zalewski) […]
laptop and data theft protection
[ad] A UK firm Virtuity has created data protection software called BackStopp which comes with ’self-destruct’ technology based on Wi-Fi and RFID tags that starts to run as and when a laptop is moved from its designated space. So in layman’s terms, if the laptop is moved from its permitted zone (which is set by […]
SWFIntruder – Analysis and Security Testing of Flash Applications
[ad] With a recent spate of attacks from banner ads (many of which are using flash) this might be a useful tool if you are using flash or more accurately flash applications on your website or portal. I did mention a Flash decompiler a while back, now we have SWFIntruder (pronounced Swiff Intruder), which is […]
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, […]