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NetSecL Linux 3.2 released

NetSecL is a hardened, live and installable operating system based on OpenSuse suitable for desktop/server and penetration testing. Once installed you can fully enjoy the …

SSH client PuTTY 0.61 released

After four long years, here comes a new version of PuTTY, the popular free telnet/SSH client for Windows and Unix platforms. PuTTY 0.61 brings new features, bug fixes, and …

CentOS 6.0 released

CentOS 6.0 for i386 and x86_64 architectures is now available. It is based on the upstream release EL 6.0 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories …

Faster password hashes cracking based on the DES algorithm on CPUs

Openwall released an updated version of John the Ripper, a password security auditing tool and open source project, providing the community with improvements in the …

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 released

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 is now available. Enhancements provide improvements in system reliability, scalability and performance, coupled with support for upcoming system …

VM Explorer 3.5 released

VM Explorer is a management tool that eases management, backup and disaster recovery tasks in your VMware ESX environment. Backups can be stored on ESX, Windows, Linux and …

VirtualBox 4.0.8 released

VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop computers to run multiple operating systems simultaneously, and supports a variety of host operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, …

Unattended Linux VM configuration tool for Hyper-V

Set-LinuxVM is a tool provided as a Windows PowerShell module which is able to create Linux Virtual Machines on a Hyper-V host. It supports Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, …

BackTrack 5 released

BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to …

ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Linux 4 released

ESET announced the availability of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Linux Desktop and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux. ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux offers …

Network situational awareness and retro analysis

Trisul is a Linux based application that passively listens to network traffic and tracks a number of traffic metrics across all layers. It correlates these traffic metrics …

USB autorun attacks against Linux

Many people think that Linux is immune to the type of Autorun attacks that have plagued Windows systems with malware over the years. However, there have been many advances in …

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