Thursday, March 22, 2007

Tools of the Trade - Nmap Alpha & Nessus Beta

1) On March 20th, FireFox 2.0.0.3 was released. This new released fixes a low-risk port scan FTP vulnerability.

2) On March 20th, Nessus 3.1.3 Beta was released. The whole Nessus 3.1.x series is considered as being in beta. When it reaches production quality, it will be labelled Nessus 3.2.x. The main list of changes between Nessus 3.2 and Nessus 3.0 is available on Tenable's blog. This version was not released for Windows however.

3) On March 19th, TrueCrypt 4.3 was released. TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. Check the change log for all the new features.

4) Recently, Insecure.org released Nmap 4.21 Alpha 4. Check the change log for the new features.

5) Recently, NoScript v1.1.4.6.070322 was released. The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey and others mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript and Java execution only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This version includes multiple new Anti-XSS features which have been the focus of the last few beta releases..

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