October 29, 2012
IObit Advanced System Care 5 License Key Code 2012
Advanced SystemCare includes a free version and a PRO version. Functions on both versions include cleaning up computer registries, do a disk defragmentation, scan for malware, and clean up broken shortcuts.
Differences between Free and Pro version
Free version's functionality include basic system clean, fix, and optimization, as well as basic protection from security threats. The Pro version includes more automated tools: Fuller system tune-up for speed, clean windows registry in depth, automatic and active optimization, malware & spyware scan and removal, 24/7 technical support, automatic updating, and different skins and themes.[citation needed] In short, the Free version includes less utilities and functionality than the pro version. The Pro version is very similar to the Advanced Vista Optimizer and are both comprehensive PC tuneup tools.License Key
D735F-51E93-1B1E4-C8AD4
Update: It's still working.
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July 26, 2012
Download spt v0.6.0 – Simple Phishing Toolkit
spt is a simple concept with powerful possibilities. It is what it’s name implies: a simple phishing toolkit.
The basic idea we (the spt project) had was that wouldn’t it be cool if there were a simple, effective, easy to use and free (most importantly!) tool that information security professionals could use to evaluate and train what we all know is the weakest link in any security minded organization: the people.
Since the founders of the spt project are themselves information security professionals by day (and possibly either LOL cats or zombies by night), they themselves faced the frustration of dealing with people within their own organizations that claimed to know better, but 9 times out of 10 fell for the most absurdly obvious phishing emails ever seen. A malware outbreak here, a stolen password and loss of critical organizational data there and the costs of dealing with the results of phishing can get to be astronomical pretty darn quickly!
Enter spt. spt was made from scratch, like a baby (or maybe a zombie) with the goal of giving over-worked and under-staffed information security professionals a simple tool (more like a framework, as we hope to add more features over time) that could be used to identify and train those weakest links. spt is a fully self-contained phishing email toolkit that can be installed, configured and phishing in less than 15 minutes. Its design is modular and open-ended allowing for future expansion and additional features via easy to snap-in modules that are simply uploaded in the administration dashboard. Why not try out spt today and see who your weakest link is?
You can download spt here:
sptoolkit_0.60_zip.zip
Or read more here.
The basic idea we (the spt project) had was that wouldn’t it be cool if there were a simple, effective, easy to use and free (most importantly!) tool that information security professionals could use to evaluate and train what we all know is the weakest link in any security minded organization: the people.
Since the founders of the spt project are themselves information security professionals by day (and possibly either LOL cats or zombies by night), they themselves faced the frustration of dealing with people within their own organizations that claimed to know better, but 9 times out of 10 fell for the most absurdly obvious phishing emails ever seen. A malware outbreak here, a stolen password and loss of critical organizational data there and the costs of dealing with the results of phishing can get to be astronomical pretty darn quickly!
Enter spt. spt was made from scratch, like a baby (or maybe a zombie) with the goal of giving over-worked and under-staffed information security professionals a simple tool (more like a framework, as we hope to add more features over time) that could be used to identify and train those weakest links. spt is a fully self-contained phishing email toolkit that can be installed, configured and phishing in less than 15 minutes. Its design is modular and open-ended allowing for future expansion and additional features via easy to snap-in modules that are simply uploaded in the administration dashboard. Why not try out spt today and see who your weakest link is?
You can download spt here:
sptoolkit_0.60_zip.zip
Or read more here.
July 23, 2012
Avast Pro Antivirus & Internet Security
Avast Pro Antivirus has an advanced heuristic scanning engine to proactively detect malware that tries to bypass traditional virus scanners. While the files may look harmless, if they show malware-like behavior, the heuristic scanning engine can stop them.
Effectiveness:
Virus Bulletin has certified Avast Pro Antivirus software with a VB100% (meaning that it caught 100% of in-the-wild viruses). AV Comparatives reports a high virus-detection rate, one of the best in the industry. AV Comparatives deems the software as one of the best solutions. Actual malware removal is still above average. Avast Pro Antivirus has also made a good showing in speed and performance tests. The antivirus software has only a light impact on startup and shutdown times. Smart scanning and multi-core optimization further speed up system scans and keep Avast Pro Antivirus light and unobtrusive.
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June 24, 2011
Bittorrent Client Released uTorrent 3 Final
After what felt like an eternity, the final version of the popular lightweight Bittorrent client uTorrent 3 has been released today. The final version is build 25406 and existing users should see update notifications when they start their client on their system, or by manually checking for updates by selecting Help > Check for Updates. Users of uTorrent 2.x can download the latest version of the program from the official website, where it is available as a 32-bit and 64-bit application for the Microsoft Windows operating system.
The release notes are as usually available on the official forum. Version 3 of uTorrent adds features such as a portable mode, streaming, torrent ratings or drag and drop sending of files. The complete list of changes and fixes is available in the forum.
The drop files to send feature is incredibly easy to use. Just drop a file that you want to share on the drop area, and uTorrent will create the torrent for you. The program displays a tiny url link that the recipients of the file need to open. The torrent is then added to their uTorrent version. If they do not have uTorrent it is installed on their system.
Streaming needs to be activated in the uTorrent options before it becomes available. All suitable media players are automatically available for selection in the options.
The Stream button becomes then available in the torrent listing. A click on the button loads the stream url in the selected media player. It is then possible to play the media in the player directly, even if it has not been downloaded completely yet.
Depending on your previous version, you may see a different looking client with additional features that you had not had access to before. This includes uTorrent apps which more often than not provide access to media and file releases of companies and organizations. You find some apps among the available ones that add features to uTorrent, a chat for instance.
The getting started guide in the client seems to be new as well. It offers a step by step guide, a beginners guide and links to faqs and information about the program (correct me if I’m wrong here).
The developers have fixed a boat load full of issues, from crashes and stability issues over freezes and hangs to cpu optimizations.
Users should take a look at known issues before they update, if they want to make sure that the program works on their system without difficulties. The list displays confirmed problems and issues that are not fixed in the uTorrent 3.0 stable release.
Most of the bugs listed seem to be limited to display issues, only a few indicate stability issues.
On a personal note. I’m running uTorrent 3.0 since the first alpha and did not have a single problem ever since. The update to version 3.0 went without difficulties. Some users in the release thread are on the other hand reporting problems with the version.
Have you made the update to uTorrent 3.0 yet? What is your impression of the new version.
June 23, 2011
AppCleaner: A Better Temporary File Cleaner
AppCleaner is a new contender, created by the developers of the software updater Update Star. The program is currently offered as a beta version for all recent versions of the Windows operating system.
It displays a tabbed interface after installation and startup. The Cleaner tab lists the four sub-tabs Apps, Browsers, Registry and Windows. It uses the usual checkbox system to enable or disable cleaning of specific temporary files.
Here is a short overview of the available cleaning options:
- Apps: Java, Adobe Flash Player, 7-Zip, Internet, Multimedia, RegEdit, Remote Desktop
- Browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, including temporary files, cookies, internet history, login data and sessions.
- Registry: services, missing clsids, missing shared dlls, mui cache, run at startup, obsolete software, fonts
- Windows: Recent Documents, Clipboard, custom folders, dns cache, file fragments, temporary files
Some other things are missing in a direct comparison. It is for instance not possible to exclude cookies comfortably from the cleaning. While it is possible to ignore files or directories to prevent them from being cleaned, it is rather cumbersome to add them to the program. All you can use is the standard file and folder browser to exclude items.
A click on the analyze button checks all enabled items for temporary files and displays the findings in list form in the interface. AppCleaner displays the overall size of the temporary data as well as the name, size and amount of each individual item. A click on Clean deletes the temporary files on the system.
AppCleaner comes with three tools, a tool to uninstall software, to manage startup items and a third to manage system restore points. They are nice to have but only as comfortable as the default Windows tools for the job.
AppCleaner is a program to look out for. It is currently in beta and it is likely that the developers will continue working on it to improve it further. It is a solid CCleaner alternative. There is however no portable version available, which some users may see as a negative.
If you like the idea of testing another temporary file cleaner for Windows, you find the program download and further information at the developer website.
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June 22, 2011
Firefox 5 Now Available for Download
That’s a big change from the two years it took to move from Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 4. Firefox 5 is part of Mozilla’s new rapid release development cycle. This cycle, which is more akin to what Google does with its Chrome browser, promises faster, more iterative updates. With any luck, Mozilla expects Firefox to hit version 7 by the end of the year.
Visually, Firefox 5 looks identical to Firefox 4. Everything we said in our Firefox 4 review applies to this release.
Rather than reinventing the wheel, Mozilla has added better support for web standards, fixed some bugs, made performance enhancements and added a few additional code touches.
The big new features, courtesy of the release notes include:
- Support for CSS animations
- Better visibility for the Do-Not-Track header preference
- Improved canvas and JavaScript support
- Better standards support for canvas, HTML5, XHR, MathML and SMIL
- Better tuned HTTP idle connection logic
In my tests, Firefox 5 is fast — even faster than Firefox 4. I also love the more frequent update cycle, because it means that the browser will be more able to support the latest and greatest browser features.
To update to the latest Firefox, click on the “check for updates” button in the “About Firefox” menu. In the comments, let me know your thoughts of the new Firefox and its more frequent release cycle.
June 21, 2011
The Zed Attack Proxy - Penetration Testing Tool
The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.
It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing.
ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually.
ZAP Features
- Brute Force scanner
- Passive scanner
- Intercepting Proxy
- Port scanner
- Automated scanner
- Spider
- Fuzzer
- Dynamic SSL certificates
- API
- Beanshell integration
Windows Installer – ZAP_1.3.0_Windows.exe
Linux Installer – ZAP_1.3.0_Linux.tar.gz
Mac OSX Installer – ZAP_1.3.0_Mac_OS_X.zip
Or read more here.
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Hackers exploit latest Flash bug on large scale
The attacks exploit the critical Flash Player bug that Adobe patched June 14 with its second "out-of-band," or emergency update, in nine days.
"CVE-2011-2110 is being exploited in the wild on a fairly large scale," said Steven Adair, a researcher with the Shadowserver Foundation, a volunteer-run group that tracks vulnerabilities and botnets. "In particular this exploit is showing up as a drive-by in several legitimate websites, including those belonging to various NGOs [non-government organizations], aerospace companies, a Korean news site, an Indian government Web site, and a Taiwanese university."
CVE-2011-2110 is the identifier for the Flash vulnerability assigned by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database.
Attackers are also using the exploit in "spear phishing" attacks aimed at specific individuals, said Adair on the Shadowserver site.
Adair called the attacks "nasty" because the exploit "happens seamlessly in the background," giving victims no clue that their systems have been compromised.
When Adobe patched the vulnerability last week, it conceded that exploits were already in use.
Adair also said there's been an increase in Flash-based attacks. "There has been an ongoing assault against Flash Player for several years now, but especially so in the last three months," Adair said.
Adobe has patched Flash Player four times in the last two months, and six times so far this year. Of the six updates, five addressed "zero-day" bugs that attackers were already exploiting at the time the patches were issued.
Brad Arkin, Adobe's director of product security and privacy, acknowledged the problems in keeping ahead of attackers, but blamed the popularity of Flash Player for the attention.
"The installed base [of Flash Player] is a real big part of it," said Arkin. "It's such a widely distributed technology that attackers find it worthwhile to invest the time to carry out some kind of malicious activity. They're making an investment for the biggest return possible."
Arkin also argued that attackers get more bang for their buck by rooting out Flash vulnerabilities than they do looking for bugs in individual browsers because virtually every personal computer has the Flash plug-in installed. "Flash is the code [used in the browser] that has the highest market penetration," he said.
According to Adair, the exploit of CVE-2011-2110 has been in use since June 9, five days before Adobe issued its latest security update. Arkin corroborated that timeline.
Although Adobe's working on boosting Flash's security -- it's collaborated with Google, for example, to sandbox Flash in Chrome -- for now, its best defense is to quickly react to exploits with a patch.
"I think we're more aggressive than Microsoft," said Arkin, referring to the two companies' approaches to shipping out-of-band updates. "Basically, if we have information about attacks in the wild, or if the information is out there on a [security] mailing list -- which means attacks are imminent -- that tends to be a trigger for us to think about an out-of-band."
Microsoft's criteria for deciding whether to issue an emergency patch is confidential, but the company has said it generally considers an out-of-band fix if it sees attacks increasing in volume.
By pushing out a patch as quickly as possible, Adobe believes it squelches discussion among security researchers and attackers.
"If there are attacks in the wild, there will be lots of blog posts analyzing the vulnerability and exploit," said Arkin. "The information migrates from the high end to the low end very quickly. So we squash the debate by fixing it."
Arkin said Adobe has focused on getting patches out quickly, and that the fix for an earlier Flash vulnerability -- one Adobe released June 5 -- had a turn-around of less than 72 hours.
"The more practice we have, the faster we turn around [patches]," Arkin said.
Adair urged everyone to keep Flash Player up-to-date. "If you or your organization runs Adobe Flash and you're not keeping up on these patches ... you are in bad shape," he said.
The newest version of Flash Player can be downloaded from Adobe's Web site. Alternately, users can run the program's integrated update tool or wait for the software to prompt them that a patched edition is available.
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Nitro PDF Reader 2 Final Released
When it comes to pdf readers Windows users have lots of choices. From Adobe Reader over third party alternatives such as Sumatra or Foxit Reader to built-in pdf readers in browsers such as Google Chrome. When it comes to creating pdf documents, the choice shrinks significantly.
Nitro PDF Reader has received lots of praise in the past for its pdf viewing and creating capabilities. The developers today have released version 2 final of the program. A lot has changed compared to the previous version. Among the new features are browser plugins for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, a new thumbnail handler for Windows Explorer (32-bit) to generate better pdf previews and support for layers and rendering transparency in pdf fles.
The Nitro Reader features include abilities to fill out and save PDF forms, stamp a signature on a PDF, extract text and images, comment, highlight or strikeout text, and more. New enhancements to 2.0 include:
- QuickSign – import a scanned image of your handwritten signature to sign documents electronically in just seconds
- Microsoft Office Interface – Unlike other PDF Readers, the Nitro PDF Reader uses the same interface as Microsoft Office products, so users know exactly where to find things
- It’s faster – files open instantly, PDFs are created 4x times faster
- It’s lighter – using much less RAM in its runtime, even with multiple PDFs open
- Files are lighter – now the PDFs you send are half the size
- Browser integration – you can open and save PDF in popular browsers like IE 9.0 and Firefox 4.0 without having to switch back and forth between software programs
According to its developers, Nitro PDF Software is now creating pdf documents up to four times faster than its predecessor. It also lighter on computer memory and creates pdf documents that are lighter in size. A short test opening some pdf documents showed that Nitro PDF Reader 2 is about as fast as the lightweight pdf reader Sumatra when it comes to opening pdf documents. Keep in mind that the program offers additional functionality for viewing and creating pdf documents, that Sumatra does not offer.
Several issues have been resolved in the new version, including a memory leak that increased the memory usage during usage and a issue where multiple Nitro processed remained running on the system.
You can access the release notes of the new version here, provided in a pdf document.
Nitro PDF Reader 2 is available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows client and server systems. The developers recommend one Gigabyte of ram and at least 300 Megabytes of available hard drive space.
You can download the latest version of Nitro PDF Reader 2 from the developer website. It is offered as a 32-bit and 64-bit version.
Source: Ghacks
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Apple Releases Final Cut Pro X
Apple showed off the new version of the software at NAB in April and video professionals were impressed not only with the new features, but with the new price. Final Cut Pro X is available in the Mac App Store for $299.99. To put that in perspective, the full version of Final Cut Studio from 2009 retailed for $999.99. Companion apps Motion 5 and Compressor 4 are available in the Mac App Store for $49.99 each.
Final Cut Pro X is a big update for the venerable editing suite, in no small part because it is now (finally) built with 64-bit support. That means that the app will be able to take advantage of the additional memory space in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the upcoming Mac OS X Lion.
Apple has been a leader in professional video editing for the past decade, but in recent years, video pros have questioned the company’s commitment to the market. As a longtime Final Cut Pro user, I’ve grown frustrated with the product — and I’m not even a professional editor. In the past year, I have largely used Adobe Premiere CS5 for most projects, because of its speed and more modern featureset.
In a statement announcing the new version, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, called Final Cut Pro X “the biggest advance in Pro video editing since the original Final Cut Pro.”
The big new feature is called the Magnetic Timeline, which takes a trackless approach to editing. Like Adobe, Apple has also put a lot of effort into what it calls Content Auto-Analysis, which is another way of saying that the software uses meta-tags to better organize and import content, based on shot type, media format and other information.
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June 19, 2011
SUPERAntiSpyware Acquired By Support.com
The acquisition announcement on the SUPERAntiSpyware website may have come as a shock to many long time users of the free or paid version of the application.
Information are scarce at this point in time, the only useful bits from the announcement are that the whole team will join support.com in the near future. The post mentions that “some things will change” but does not go into details what those things might be. The press release at support.com includes additional information.
Support.com has paid $8.5 million in cash for SUPERAntiSpyware and plans to “expand SUPERAntiSpyware’s business with increased distribution and product enhancements”.
When you look at support.com’s offerings you will note that they provide tech support to consumers and businesses alike. Services include one-time fixed prices for support requests, or subscriptions plans for round the clock PC support.
Services include installing hardware, troubleshooting computer problems or removing viruses and spyware. SUPERAntiSpyware will be added to the list of programs the company offers directly to consumers and small businesses.
But what about the free version of the software? Will it still be around after the acquisition? According to SUPERAntiSpyware founder Nick Skrepetos it will.
Of course we will honor lifetime licenses and the free edition isn’t going awaySo, users who have a lifetime license will keep their licenses and will continue to get updates, and free users will still get access to a free version of the application.
I’d give the company the benefit of the doubt, but we have seen acquisitions in the past were promises were made but not kept. Lets hope that this is not one of those cases.
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June 18, 2011
Firefox 5 Around the Corner: To Be Release Soon
The official release date of Firefox 5 has been set to June 21, which is three days from today. If you do not want to wait until then to play around with the latest stable release of the popular web browser, you can go ahead and download the browser for your language and operating system from the official Mozilla ftp site. As with all releases that appear there, there is a slim chance of last minute bugs that could force Mozilla to pull the release and replace it with another one. If you want to be on the safe side, or want to upgrade or install Firefox 5 in a productive environment, it is better to wait until the official release announcement.
So what’s new in Firefox 5? The release notes list the following new features and changes:
- Added support for CSS animations
- The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
- Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
- Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
- Improved spell checking for some locales
- Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
- WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
- Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
- The Firefox development channel switcher introduced in previous Firefox Beta updates has been removed
It should be noted that Firefox 5 introduces HTTP Transaction sorting by CWND which can improve page loading times considerably. See Firefox 5 Gets Faster Connections, Up Next: Memory Improvements for an in depths review and explanation of that feature.
The do not head tracker preference has been moved to the Privacy tab to get more exposure. Users can activate it to send a “do not track” request to each website they open in Firefox.
Interested users can access the complete list of bugs fixed in Firefox 5 here. Each entry links to Bugzilla where additional information can be found.
The latest version of Firefox 5 can be downloaded from the official Mozilla ftp server. It is likely that most Firefox release mirrors will offer the new version on their servers as well.
Next in line is Firefox 6, which will be released in about three months time.
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June 17, 2011
Google Chrome 13 Gets More Experimental Features
The new development version also adds an option to enable the Web Audio API and an option to allow "Background Apps" to continue running even when Chrome is shut down.
Background Apps are Google Chrome Apps which provide users with functionality that quietly runs in the background without intrusion. Background Apps could be apps that regularly check your email or Twitter account and notify you of new updates. The new feature in Google Chrome 13 will allow apps to continue running.
The new "Background Apps" feature is enabled by default, you can disable it by going to "Options -> Under The Hood" and deselect the checkbox next to "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed".
Google Chrome 13 also features a working version of the profile switcher which allows users to use different profiles for different Chrome windows. This will allow users to work with different profiles without having to keep logging in and out. Google Chrome 13 also has the latest Flash player – Version 10.3.181.14.
Google has been working on the experimental new tab page for a while and it looks like things are finally taking shape in Google Chrome 13. When you enable the feature from about:flags, you will see a new tab page which now lists most visited sites and apps in tabs. It also has additional tabs but they don’t have any content. The new tab feature could allow users to create customizable tabs where they can list out different apps, however, there is no option to customize them right now.
Google Chrome 13 also has an option to hide the toolbar which can be done by right click on a tab an selecting "Hide the toolbar" from the menu options. Using this option hides the Omnibox and extension icons. I would prefer to have a keyboard shortcut to enable and disable this feature. You will need to visit the about:flags page and enable the "Compact Navigation" feature to get this option.
Finally, Google Chrome 13 also adds a new option to restrict Google Instant to only searches. Prior to that, Google Instant would kick in even when you load any webpage. This could get annoying and a feature to disable it is a great addition. You will have to enable this feature in about:flags too.
Overall, it looks like Google Chrome 13 is shaping out really well. Some of the features like multiple profiles and new tab page are really exciting. Hopefully, these changes should hit the beta and stable channels soon.
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June 13, 2011
Firefox 5 Gets Faster Connections, Up Next: Memory Improvements
Firefox 5 is a week away from being released as a final version. The browser is expected to be released as final on June 21. When you look at the changelog you will notice quite a few under the hood improvements that have not been talked about yet. HTTP Transactions sorted by CWND is one of those features. Most users probably wouldn’t associate a faster browser with that feature in particular, but the explanation on the Bugzilla site might change that.
What really distinguishes different connections to the same server is the size of the sending congestion window (CWND) on the server. If the window is large enough to support the next response document then it can all be transferred (by definition) in 1 RTT.It basically means that Firefox may load resources faster if connection handling and priorities are changed.
I’ve done an experiment to show the best case – a link to a 25KB resource off of a page that contains a mixture of small and large content. In both cases the 25KB resource is loaded with an idle persistent connection. In the historic case it reuses a connection that had loaded a small image previously and it takes 3RTT (793ms) to transfer it.. in the case of sorting by cwnd the window is large enough to accommodate the entire resource and it is all complete in 1 RTT (363ms). Cool!Even better, the worst case scenario is the status quo of Firefox 4. Users who are interested in a longer, more technical explanation, can visit the Bitsup blog for a taste of that.
Firefox 4 transfer
Firefox 5 transfer
The guys over at HTTPWatch have tested the new feature and found the “the performance benefit [to be] substantial”.
In other news: Firefox has a bad reputation for excessive memory usage, and related to this slow downs especially on startup or when closing the browser window. While that is certainly not the perception of all Firefox users, many perceive Firefox as a browser that uses to much memory.
The MemShrink project aims to optimize Firefox’s memory consumption. The developers list speed, stability and perception as the three core benefits of optimizing the memory usage of the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
The project members will analyze memory leak reports and prioritize them based on numbers of affected users and their default priority.
The developers have created a new website called Are We Slim Yet which tracks the process of cutting down on Firefox’s memory usage.
If things go forward as planned, we might see considerable memory footprint reductions in coming versions of the browser.
June 6, 2011
32-bit ISO of Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop
What's new in this version: Version 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) includes new launcher and dash and a clever workspace manager.
This download is an ISO file and requires a CD burner and blank CD to burn the disc image.
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April 11, 2011
Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables
RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique.
In 1980 Martin Hellman described a cryptanalytic time-memory trade-off which reduces the time of cryptanalysis by using precalculated data stored in memory. This technique was improved by Rivest before 1982 with the introduction of distinguished points which drastically reduces the number of memory lookups during cryptanalysis. This improved technique has been studied extensively but no new optimisations have been published ever since.You can find the official Rainbowcrack project here, where you can download the latest version of Rainbowcrack.
In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a hash cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called “rainbow table”.
Basically these types of password crackers are working with pre-calculated hashes of ALL passwords available within a certain character space, be that a-z or a-zA-z or a-zA-Z0-9 etc.
These files are called Rainbow Tables.
You are trading speed for memory and disk space, the Rainbow Tables can be VERY large.
Be warned though, Rainbow tables can be defeated by salted hashes, if the hashes are not salted however and you have the correct table, a complex password can be cracked in a few minutes rather than a few weeks or months with traditional brute forcing techniques.
So where do I get these Rainbow Tables?
You can generate them yourself with RainbowCrack, this will take a long time, and a lot of diskspace.
Project Shmoo is offering downloads of popular Rainbow Tables via BitTorrent.
http://rainbowtables.shmoo.com/
If you wanted to, you could even buy the tables from http://www.rainbowtables.net/.
Or these guys, not free but cheap http://www.rainbowcrack-online.com/
Some free tables here http://wired.s6n.com/files/jathias/index.html
What software is available for use with Rainbow Tables?
There is of course the original RainbowCrack as mentioned above.
Then there is:
Ophcrack
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance.
Cain and Abel (newly added support for Rainbow Tables)
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
Cain and Abel is personally my favourite fully featured password whacking tool, it also has a good packet sniffer, which grabs and decodes passwords and many methods for password cracking. The interface is decent too. I’ll write more on how to get the most out of Cain later.
L0phtcrack or LC5
LC5 is the latest version of L0phtCrack, the award-winning password auditing and recovery application used by thousands of companies worldwide.
Please note this is a COMMERCIAL product.
LCP
Main purpose of LCP program is user account passwords auditing and recovery in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003Thankfully there is a freeware alternative to LC5 in the form of LCP.
Other Resources
http://www.rainbowcrack.com/
http://sarcaprj.wayreth.eu.org/
http://passcracking.com/
http://www.md5lookup.com/
http://www.plain-text.info/
http://ap0x.headcoders.net/xHashBrutter.rar
http://www.loginrecovery.com/
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April 1, 2011
Wep0ff – Wireless WEP Key Cracker Tool
It uses combination of fragmentation and evil twin attacks to generate
traffic which can be used for KoreK-style WEP-key recovery.
This tool can be used to mount fake access point attack against WEP-based wireless clients.
This code tested patched madwifi-old drivers with athraw support, but also works with madwifi-ng. With madwifi-ng you need to create two virtual interfaces: one in master mode (for fake AP) and second in monitor mode (to listen on).
How to Use:
1. Setup fake AP with KARMA tools or iwconfig
iwpriv ath0 mode 2
iwconfig ath0 mode master essid foo enc 1122334455 channel 7
echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/ath0/rawdev
echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/ath0/rawdev_type
ifconfig ath0
up ifconfig ath0raw up
2. Start this program (./wep0ff ath0raw 00:01:02:03:04:05)
3. Wait until client connect to fake access point
4. Launch airodump-ng to collect packets
5. Launch aircrack-ng to recover WEP key
You can download it here:
Wep0ff
Categories:
software,
Wireless Hacking
Brutus Password Cracker – Download brutus-aet2.zip AET2
Brutus was written originally to check routers etc. for default and common passwords.
Features
Brutus version AET2 is the current release and includes the following authentication types :
- HTTP (Basic Authentication)
- HTTP (HTML Form/CGI)
- POP3
- FTP
- SMB
- Telnet
The current release includes the following functionality :
- Multi-stage authentication engine
- 60 simultaneous target connections
- No username, single username and multiple username modes
- Password list, combo (user/password) list and configurable brute force modes
- Highly customisable authentication sequences
- Load and resume position
- Import and Export custom authentication types as BAD files seamlessly
- SOCKS proxy support for all authentication types
- User and password list generation and manipulation functionality
- HTML Form interpretation for HTML Form/CGI authentication types
- Error handling and recovery capability inc. resume after crash/failure.
Brutus AET2
March 2, 2011
Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables
RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin’s faster time-memory trade-off technique.
In 1980 Martin Hellman described a cryptanalytic time-memory trade-off which reduces the time of cryptanalysis by using precalculated data stored in memory. This technique was improved by Rivest before 1982 with the introduction of distinguished points which drastically reduces the number of memory lookups during cryptanalysis. This improved technique has been studied extensively but no new optimisations have been published ever since.
You can find the official Rainbowcrack project here, where you can download the latest version of Rainbowcrack.
In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a hash cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break complex password in this way. The idea of time-memory trade-off is to do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in files so called “rainbow table”.
Basically these types of password crackers are working with pre-calculated hashes of ALL passwords available within a certain character space, be that a-z or a-zA-z or a-zA-Z0-9 etc.
These files are called Rainbow Tables.
You are trading speed for memory and disk space, the Rainbow Tables can be VERY large.
Be warned though, Rainbow tables can be defeated by salted hashes, if the hashes are not salted however and you have the correct table, a complex password can be cracked in a few minutes rather than a few weeks or months with traditional brute forcing techniques.
So where do I get these Rainbow Tables?
You can generate them yourself with RainbowCrack, this will take a long time, and a lot of diskspace.
Project Shmoo is offering downloads of popular Rainbow Tables via BitTorrent.
http://rainbowtables.shmoo.com/
If you wanted to, you could even buy the tables from http://www.rainbowtables.net/.
Or these guys, not free but cheap http://www.rainbowcrack-online.com/
Some free tables here http://wired.s6n.com/files/jathias/index.html
What software is available for use with Rainbow Tables?
There is of course the original RainbowCrack as mentioned above.
Then there is:
Ophcrack
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance.
Cain and Abel (newly added support for Rainbow Tables)
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
Cain and Abel is personally my favourite fully featured password whacking tool, it also has a good packet sniffer, which grabs and decodes passwords and many methods for password cracking. The interface is decent too. I’ll write more on how to get the most out of Cain later.
L0phtcrack or LC5
LC5 is the latest version of L0phtCrack, the award-winning password auditing and recovery application used by thousands of companies worldwide.
Please note this is a COMMERCIAL product.
LCP
Main purpose of LCP program is user account passwords auditing and recovery in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Thankfully there is a freeware alternative to LC5 in the form of LCP.
http://www.rainbowcrack.com/
http://sarcaprj.wayreth.eu.org/
http://passcracking.com/
http://www.md5lookup.com/
http://www.plain-text.info/
http://ap0x.headcoders.net/xHashBrutter.rar
http://www.loginrecovery.com/
Categories:
Cain-and-Abel,
Hacking,
Password Cracker,
software
December 5, 2010
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Review
SUPERAntiSpyware is available as a free and professional edition. Both editions are downloadable directly from the developer website. Lets take a quick look at the differences between SUPERAntiSpyware Professional and SUPERAntiSpyware Free.
Both editions support the detection and removal of all sorts of malicious programs including malware, trojans, worms or keyloggers. Users can add files and folders to a whitelist so that they will not be processed during scans.
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional on top of this offers the following features that are not available, or limited, in the free edition:
- Ability to repair HiJacked web browsers and system settings, e.g. resetting the home page, enabling the task manager, broken network connections or desktop policies.
- A feature called First Chance Prevention which analyzes 50 critical points on system start and shut down to eliminate threats before they have a chance to infect the system.
- Threat realtime blocking by monitoring the Windows PC and processes.
- Registry protection against web browser hi-jackers and other threats.
- Auto-scanning on application startup.
- Automatic update checks and definition updates every 8 hours.
- Daily definition updates.
- System diagnostic to locate new threats on the PC.
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Review
The security software displays a clean interface on startup. Users can press on buttons to perform manual operations. This includes scanning the system for harmful software, configuring scheduled scans, managing the quarantine, editing the program preferences and checking for updates. Update and license information are displayed there as well.
A click on Scan your computer opens the scan menu with options to scan the whole computer system or just a specific drive for malicious programs. SUPERAntiSpyware Professional users can perform a quick scan of the Windows PC, perform a complete scan or custom scan.
The quick scan scans all running programs and processes, critical Registry locations and the most common places on the connected hard drives for harmful software. The complete scan adds the selected drives to the scan list. Custom scan finally can be used to scan specific areas of the operating system (like the Registry or memory) and selected folders.
A system scan takes a while, depending on the speed of the PC and the selections that have been made. The quick scan took a few minutes to complete and results are displayed in detail on the results page. Each possible file and location found are categorized in groups and listed with their local path on the PC. It is possible to unselected items from being cleared, add items or locations to the list of trusted items, report false positives, manage the trusted items list or explain one of the detected items.
Especially the explain detected item can be helpful considering that it is not always clear why a file is being marked as being malicious. This loads a page on the SUPERAntiSpyware page with additional details about the selected item. It still may take more research to find out about a specific item. It is for instance a good idea to upload files to Virustotal for a second opinion.
All selected items will be removed by SUPERAntiSpyware Professional, and it may take a reboot of the system to clean them completely from the system. If it does a reboot is suggested by the security software to complete the process.
Scans can also be scheduled in specific intervals, for instance daily at a specific time or once a week.
All removed items are added to the program’s quarantine from where they can be restored or completely removed.
The control center offers extensive configuration options. Users should especially pay a visit to scanning control which displays scanning related settings. It is for instance possible to include non-executable files in the scan, files that are larger than 4 Megabytes or to terminate memory threats before quarantining them.
Other control center options include the previously mentioned repair options, real-time protection settings and access to scanner logs.
The program is very light on resources while running in the background. It used just a little over 1 Megabyte of system memory. Memory usage can peak at a few hundred Megabytes however during scans, but that is only temporary.
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Installation
Users can enter the registration code during installation. Privacy conscious users need to pay attention to the installation dialog as system information may be submitted to developer servers to optimize the software. Disabling the option during installation prevents this from happening. The security program is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of all Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 on.
400Mhz or Faster Processor with at least 256MB RAM
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