Sunday, June 7th, 2009
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 ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage's FTP password, online passwords (like website member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Researchers for some time have demonstrated the possibility of one of virtualization's worst nightmares -- a guest virtual machine (VM) infiltrating and hacking its host system. Now another commercial tool is offering an exploit that does exactly that.
The newest version of Immunity's Canvas commercial penetration testing tool, v6.47, includes the ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Trend Micro is warning about a phishing attempt that targets users of Microsoft Outlook.
The phishing e-mail arrives in Outlook e-mail inboxes and looks like it comes from Microsoft. It prompts recipients to reconfigure their Outlook by clicking on a link that leads to a Web site that asks for account ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Network administrators and security specialists have long had tools and software for analyzing the streams of traffic that course through company systems, but now a Marlborough, Massachusetts, startup wants to make the process a lot easier.
Dejavu Technologies recently released TrafficScape, an appliance that grabs network packets and converts them into ...
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