Cain & Abel v4.9.34 released

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

New in 4.9.34: Added support for Windows 2008 Terminal Server in APR-RDP sniffer filter. Added Abel64.exe and Abel64.dll to support hashes extraction on x64 operating systems. Added x64 operating systems support in NTLM hashes Dumper, MS-CACHE hashes Dumper, LSA Secrets Dumper, Wireless Password Decoder, Credential Manager Password Decoder, DialUp Password Decoder. Added Windows Live ...

Evil Maid goes after TrueCrypt!

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Let’s quickly recap the Evil Maid Attack. The scenario we consider is when somebody left an encrypted laptop e.g. in a hotel room. Let’s assume the laptop uses full disk encryption like e.g. this provided by TrueCrypt or PGP Whole Disk Encryption. Many people believe, including some well known security experts, ...

SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Most users ensure their Web sessions are using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) before entering their credit card information, but less than half do so when typing their passwords onto a Web page, according to a new survey. Just what SSL does and doesn't do isn't clear to many users, and the ...

VirtualBox 3.0.8 Released

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Sun today released VirtualBox 3.0.8, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 which improves stability and performance. Download: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads ChangeLog: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

Microsoft Confirms Hotmail Phishing Attack

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Several thousand Hotmail usernames and passwords were exposed on over the weekend via a phishing attack, Microsoft confirmed late on Monday. Microsoft said it would block access to the accounts that were exposed and work with customers to reclaim access to them. "Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live ...