Defcon Wi-Fi Hack Called No Threat to Enterprise WLANs

Sunday, August 5th, 2012

Enterprise Wi-Fi networks can keep using WPA2 security safely, despite a recent Defcon exploit that has been widely, but wrongly, interpreted as rendering it useless. The exploit successfully compromised a legacy authentication protocol, MS-CHAPv2, which was created by Microsoft years ago. But the vulnerabilities of this protocol (and other similar ones) ...

Nmap 6 Released

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6.00 from http://nmap.org/. It is the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009. Nmap ...

65 Open Source Replacements for Security Software

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

This is a great list of 65 open source projects to replace various security applications that you are probably running right now.  I personally use most of them and it's great to see such a thorough list like this posted all in one place.  Source: http://www.datamation.com/security/65-open-source-replacements-for-security-software-1.html

RawCap sniffer for Windows released

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

We are today proude to announce the release of RawCap, which is a free raw sockets sniffer for Windows. Here are some highlights of why RawCap is a great tool to have in your toolset:Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback)RawCap.exe is just 17 kBNo ...

Armitage – graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for security practitioners who understand hacking but don't use Metasploit every day. If you want to learn Metasploit and grow ...