Friday, March 14th, 2008
A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password.
Adam Boileau first demonstrated the hack, which affects Windows XP computers but has not yet been tested with Windows Vista, at a security conference in Sydney in ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
A couple of years ago Microsoft released the Shared Computer Toolkit, a free set of tools to help administrators manage PCs used by multiple users, especially in order to create safe configurations that would undo any changes made by careless or malicious users.
Now they have released the next generation of ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
cDc (Cult of the Dead Cow) recently released a GUI driven tool for Google Hacking called Goolag.
Google Dorks have been around for several years and have been researched most assiduously by Johnny I Hack Stuff.
If one searches the Web, one will find multiple collections of dorks, and also some applications ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Tenable Network Security is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.2.0, as well as NessusClient 3.2.0. Nessus 3.2.0 is a major release, containing several changes from Nessus 3.0.x :
New Features
Support for IPv6 targets (for the Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X flavors)
Support for limiting the number of active ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
A flaw in the way Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser processes FTP commands could let attackers steal or erase data from a victim's FTP site.
The bug, which affects users of IE 6 and the unsupported IE 5 browser, gives an attacker a way of hijacking the victim's FTP sessions. But a ...
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