Best Security Tools: Free online Web utilities

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Have you ever needed to PING a host, run trace a Web route, or see what information you're exposing to Internet without having to reconfigure the security on your perimeter devices? Have you tired of having to call your managed security services provider to let them know it's you creating ...

Cain & Abel v4.9.15 released

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...

Desktop virtualisation gets military-grade security

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Tresys Technology has released a desktop virtualisation platform with a difference - it is designed from the ground up for organisations needing tight security, including military bodies. Tresys, which has a track record of providing military systems, said its VM Fortress can cut costs for organisations which would like to implement ...

BackTrack: A penetration testers toolset

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

There are few job titles as misleading as that of the "Penetration Tester." Sure, saying professional computer hacker would be more direct, but have you ever noticed how hackers seem to have a dirty mind? Why else would they want to go phreaking through backdoors? Anyway, in order for hackers to ...

Nessus 3 Tutorial

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

If you're looking for a vulnerability scanner, chances are you've come across a number of expensive commercial products and tools with long lists of features and benefits. Unfortunately, if you're in the same situation as most of us, you simply don't have the budget to implement fancy high-priced systems. You ...