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.
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!
BackTrack 4 Beta Public Released
The always excellent Backtrack security distro has released beta 4 today and the servers are swamped! I was lucky enough to get a completed download and have been testing it today. So far it's been very stable.
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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