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31Mar/080

Wireshark v1.0 released

After a short 10 year build time (I kid...), one of the best security tools out has reached the v1.0 milestone. Wireshark 1.0.0. was released this weekend! You can read more about it in this news item as well as grabbing the file from the Wireshark site. I've used Ethereal since the early days and it's always been one of my staple network/security tools. A big congrats to the team! Here's the news release:

I'm proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.0. This is the culmination of nearly ten years of hard work by a team of brilliant and talented developers. It is an honor to be able to work with these people.
On behalf of the development team, I would like to thank Wireshark's user community for all of your enthusiasm and support over the years. Wireshark development will continue, and we have lots of great features to offer in the coming years.

In this release

Security-related vulnerabilities in the X.509sat, Roofnet, LDAP, and SCCP dissectors have been fixed. See the advisory for details.
This release includes an experimental package for Mac OSX Intel. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 1.0.0 release notes.
Official releases are available right now from the download page.

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4Aug/076

CISA Results are in…

The summer is flying by so fast I had almost forgot about my CISA test and that I was still waiting for results. It had been weeks since I last thought about it, so I was pleasantly surprised to get an email from ISACA on Thursday with the results. Long story short, I passed with flying colors! I'm glad, as I did not relish the thought of having to study and retake the test in December during the holiday season.

All in all, this was one of the more interesting (read stressful) certification tests I've taken. Now that I can look back at it knowing I passed, it was a test that I probably worried more than I needed to, but one I had to prepare for the most due to it covering areas that I did not have as much experience in as I've had with other certification subjects in the past.

Now comes the fun part, filling out the application and documenting my past security experience so I can claim a new set of letters to add behind my name. All of which really means nothing in the grand scheme of things... =)