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Updated Microsoft Security Assessment Tool

2008-12-02 04:13:03 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Tool (MSAT). Version 4.0 hit the web on 31 October. Its been four years since the initial release, and two years since the prior version. Between then and now your security world has evolved a lot, and the tool now reflects that Read more: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc185712.aspx Download now:...
 
Tags: security, security world, additional security resources, tool, security posture, identifiable information whatsoever, assessment, information, tool offers
 
 
 
 
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DIY Skype Malware Spreading Tool in the Wild

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2008-11-12 11:43:28 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...tool, which just like the majority of publicly obtainable tools is aiming to contact everyone, everywhere The tool's main differentiation factor is its feature of harvesting the personal information of users it has managed to detect randomly, that's of course in between the mass spamming of malicious URLs. However, despite it's DIY nature...
 
Tags: skype, skype malware, malware, tool, tools, publicly obtainable tools, wild, malware campaign, diy tools
 
 
 
 
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Mujahideen Secrets 2 Encryption Tool Released

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2008-01-21 15:37:17 by HASH0x8b0f9c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...tool was released online approximately two days ago, on behalf of the Al-Ekhlaas Islamic Network. Original and translated press release Is the first program of the Islamic multicast security across networks. It represents the highest level of technical multicast encrypted but far superior. All communications software, which are manufactured...
 
Tags: secrets, tool, encryption, secrets encryption tool, encryption keys, keys, digital, digital signature files, islamic
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft IPsec diagnostic tool

2008-02-01 11:39:04 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...tool to help you create and test your policies. It checks for common network problems on host machines and suggests repair commands. It collects IPsec policy information on systems and parses IPsec logs to deduce why a failure might have happened. Beyond IPsec, it offers trace collection for VPN, NAP client, Windows Firewall, Group policy...
 
Tags: windows vista enterprise, windows vista, windows vista business, windows, windows firewall, windows server, ipsec, tool, diagnostic tool
 
 
 
 
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Hacking tool guidance finally appears

2007-12-31 17:50:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...tools, and the problem arises because almost every hacking tool you can think of from perl to nmap is dual use the good guys use it for good purposes, and the bad guys use it for bad. The bad guys are of course committing an offence, and the good guys are not but the complexity surrounds distribution, if a good guy runs a website and a lot of...
 
Tags: bad, bad people download, cma offence, offence, bad guys, guys, offence stage, tool, article widely
 
 
 
 
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Skype Spamming Tool in the Wild

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2008-04-07 10:51:23 by HASH0x8ad7880 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...tools is the proccess accomplished? Take this recent proposition for a proprietary Skype Spamming Tool, and you'll get the point from a do-it-yourself (DIY) perspective. This proprietary tool's main differentiation factor is its wildcast capability, namely searching for John will locate and send mass authorization requests to all usernames...
 
Tags: tool, mass authorization requests, malware, malware authors, proprietary tool, urls, botnet, novice botnet masters, infect
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Has Developed Windows Forensic Analysis Tool for Police

2008-04-30 13:54:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tools : COFEE, according to forensic folk who have used it, is simply a suite of 150 bundled off-the-shelf forensic tools that run from a script. None of the tools are new or were created by Microsoft. Microsoft simply combined existing programs into a portable tool that can be used in the field before agents bring a computer back to their...
 
Tags: microsoft, tool, tools, investigative tools, microsoft simply, off-the-shelf forensic tools, device, tool separately, usb device
 
 
 
 
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Ideal Tool to Solve Real Problems ... of the Near Future?

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2008-06-12 19:02:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...tool Somebody asked me: "That's great that you have such a clear vision of a future log management technology - but tell me first what future business problems will such 'ideal tool of the future' solve First, I laughed and said: "Dude, look around, will ya? :-) There are plenty of log-related problems today which we are not even close to...
 
Tags: log-conclusion process, log, log diversity, log management vendor, logs, application logs, log messages, sap logs, future
 
 
 
 
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Meet ratproxy, our passive web security assessment tool

2008-07-01 16:49:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...tool that we've been using internally at Google. This utility, developed by our information security engineering team, is designed to transparently analyze legitimate, browser-driven interactions with a tested web property and automatically pinpoint, annotate, and prioritize potential flaws or areas of concern The proxy analyzes problems...
 
Tags: web, information, information leakage scenarios, information security, contemporary web technologies, information security community, web property, community, web applications