Tools of the Trade

Just some news on a couple of tools.

1) Fedora Core 5 (FC5) was released a couple of weeks ago. All new graphics as well. Looks much better than FC4.

2) On March 29th, Nessus 3.0.2 beta was released for Mac OS X. It runs native on both PPC and Intel CPUs. I just installed the new one on FC5, working pretty good. Remember the GUI client isn't packaged with the main server party anymore...so make sure you grab the GTK client or use the remote NessusWX.

3) On March 16th, Cain & Abel v2.8.8 was released over at oxid.it. They added VoIP sniffer support for the following codecs: G723.1, G726-16, G726-24, G726-32, G726-40, LPC-10.

4) On March 30th, Aircrack-ng 0.3 was released for both Linux and Windows. If you haven't used Aircrack before, you should try it on your wireless network, you might be shocked to see how well it works.

5) Recently, Ophcrack 2.2 was released. Check out the Ophcrack Live CD. It is a linux bootable CD-Rom with Ophcrack and a set of pre-computed tables. Nice ;)

6) John the Ripper 1.7.0.2 was released for *nix systems. The change was irrelevant for Windows users.

7) Watch out for a Kismet update soon. Development hasn't stopped, it has just shifted into the "NewCore" branch. I am running the development version on FC5, looking good so far. I still haven't seen any information about the Kismet hole leaked at DefCon...strange.

8) Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 3 was released on March 29th. I am currently running the beta 2 - I like it. Time for a upgrade.