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Past, present and future of Metasploit

HD Moore is the CSO at Rapid7 and Chief Architect of Metasploit, an open-source penetration testing platform. HD founded the Metasploit Project with the goal of becoming a …

RSYaba: Modular brute force attacker

RSYaba allows you to run brute force attacks against various services in a similar way to Hydra and Medusa. The tool is written in Ruby so modifying the scripts is a lot …

Integrating Hydra with Nessus

The video below shows you how to integrate custom username and password dictionaries with Hydra to your Nessus scans.

Metasploit Framework 3.5.0 comes with over 600 exploits

The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration …

Comodo Internet Security 2011 released

Comodo released its Internet Security Manager 2011 software which offers malware prevention together with central administration features. New in version 2011 are behavior …

Novell Identity Manager 4 released

Novell released their Identity Manager 4 Advanced Edition which ensures consistent identity, security and compliance policies for an organization’s entire IT ecosystem. …

Metasploit Pro released

Rapid7 released Metasploit Pro which improves the efficiency of penetration testers by providing unrestricted remote network access and enabling teams to collaborate …

Tool to test regular expressions for DoS vulnerabilities

Regular expression patterns containing certain clauses that execute in exponential time (for example, grouping clauses containing repetition that are themselves repeated) can …

Adobe to release more secure PDF reader

Adobe is announcing the new Acrobat X Family of Products which includes Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. Reader X is the only …

Portable device management and protection for Mac users

Cososys has released Endpoint Protector 2009, a new version of its device management, endpoint security and data loss prevention solution for Mac/Apple computers. The newly …

Agentless configuration auditing

nCircle announced the new version of its Configuration Compliance Manager, an agentless configuration auditing and file integrity monitoring solution that automatically …

Full-service virtual SIEM solution

LogLogic announced the release of a full-service virtual SIEM solution. Leveraging the recently released LogLogic 5 software, LogLogic’s MX Virtual delivers all the …

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