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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 …

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in SquirrelMail, according to Secunia. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion …

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 …

SecureState released Syringe, a general purpose injection utility for the windows platform. It supports injection of DLLs, and shellcode into remote processes as well as …

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 …

Metasploit is a free, open source penetration testing solution. Metasploit now ships with 698 exploit modules, 358 auxiliary modules, and 54 post modules. 11 new exploits, 1 …

Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. The following features are new (or have been …

Wireshark is a popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development, and education. The following vulnerabilities have been fixed: …

The Web Application Attack and Audit Framework’s (w3af) goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend. …

A weakness and a vulnerability have been reported in phpMyAdmin, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to …

DOMinator is a Firefox based software for analysis and identification of DOM based Cross Site Scripting issues (DOMXss). It is the first runtime tool which can help security …

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