The enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. Software vulnerabilities and exploits have become an everyday part of life. Virtually every product has to deal with them and consequently, users are faced with a stream of security updates. For users who get attacked before the […]
Windows Hacking
Microsoft Implements Company Policy For Vulnerability Disclosure
Microsoft has implemented a new company policy regarding vulnerability disclosure in non-Microsoft products (third-party products). Unsurprisingly they are following the ‘responsible disclosure’ line rather than the ‘full disclosure’ line favoured by the infosec community. It’s fair enough though, as they say treat others as you wish to be treated. I’m pretty sure Microsoft would much […]
Microsoft Unleashes Record Breaking Patch Tuesday – April 2011
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 […]
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 […]
Day One At Pwn2Own Takes Out Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari
Well it’s March again and well we love March because it’s Pwn2Own time! Every year around this time we get some goodies to discuss way back since: 2008 – Mac owned on 2nd day of Pwn2Own hack contest 2009 – Charlie Miller Does It Again At PWN2OWN 2010 – Mozilla Beats Apple & Microsoft to […]