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29Sep/090

New Microsoft A/V Out of Beta – Suprisingly great!

For those of you not aware, Microsoft has been quitely testing the successor to their discontinued OneCare AntiVirus product, named Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems that it is out of beta as of today and is available for free download. I've actually been running this as a beta on several of my machines here at the secret bunker, and have been pleasantly surprised on how good a product it is. I'm a big fan of the free Avast! and AVG home products for their small footprint and excellent detection capabilities, but thought I would put SE through it's paces to see how it worked.

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29Sep/090

Metasploit 3.3 stable almost ready, now with screenshotty goodness!

Every Pen Tester's favorite platform Metasploit is coming up on v3.3 stable, and there are some really cool new features added to the pentester toolkit. One of the interesting new exploits added is the currently unpatched SMB2 flaw in Vista and Windows Server 2008. Disabling the protocol is the only way to mitigate that particular nasty at the moment.

One of my favorites is the new screenshot tool. Nothing impacts a final report to the CEO like a screenshot of his desktop while he's playing solitaire! =)

Busted!

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23Sep/090

A Stick Figure Guide to AES Encryption

Ever wondered how AES encryption works? Take a look at Jeff Moser's excellent stick-figure guide and be enlightened!

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10Sep/090

The Future of the Security Industry – Bruce Schneier

I stumbled across a video of Bruce Schneier's excellent talk at OWASP on the future of the IT Security industry. It's an excellent discussion on how IT security is quickly becoming a commodity and more security is being outsourced.