Tools of the Trade - Reducing Negative Effects of Lead Exposure

According to research released by the American Academy of Neurology in July 2007, reading ability plays some type of role in protecting the brain during prolong exposure to lead.

So basically, by reading my blog you are helping to protect your brain from all the lead exposure of modern make-up and toys...cool eh? ;)

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On to the tools

1) On Oct 12th, Wine 0.9.47 was released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

2) On Oct 12th, OpenSSL 0.9.8f was released. This release fixes a pretty serious flaw discovered by Andy Polyakov relating to the DTLS implementation.

3) On Oct 11th, Nullsoft released Winamp 5.5 (10th Anniversary Edition). This released fixed a pretty serious FLAC related security vuln. See the full version history for all the changes.

4) On Oct 10th, SIPVicious 0.2 was released. SIPVicious consist of four main tools:

• svmap - this is a sip scanner. Lists SIP devices found on an IP range
• svwar - identifies active extensions on a PBX
• svcrack - an online password cracker for SIP PBX
• svreport - manages sessions and exports reports to various formats

5) On Oct 10th, Insecure.org released Nmap 4.22 SOC 7. This is the latest development release. See the changelog for all the well...changes.

6) On Oct 9th, Ascii Generator dotNET 0.9.0 was released. This is not really a security tool and is really strictly for fun. I played with it for a bit..and created some pretty cool pics.

7) On Oct 7th, Kismet-2007-10-R1 was released. This stable release includes significant bug fixes, speed boosts, new features, etc. New users should probably chose the stable release, but if something doesn't work, try the development code, often bugs are fixed there prior to a new stable release. See the changelog for both the stable and current development release for all the details.