A Pakistani-American doctor who campaigned for the rights of a minority group is gravely ill in a remote Pakistani jail, held without charges under severe conditions for nearly two years, his lawyers and human rights advocates said.
The doctor, Safdar Sarki, was arrested in Karachi in February 2006 while visiting from his home in Texas. Pakistan’s Supreme Court named him as one of the people held in a secret detention system established by the government of President Pervez Musharraf, which by some estimates is holding more than 4,000 people.
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry tried to expose the detention system when he was chief justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Chaudhry forced Pakistani authorities to admit Dr. Sarki was being held and ordered them to bring him to his court last October.
Mr. Chaudhry was fired weeks later by Mr. Musharraf, before Dr. Sarki could appear before the judge. The president imposed emergency rule on Nov. 3, and fired Mr. Chaudhry the same day. The cases of Dr. Sarki and other secret detainees have languished since.
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On to the tools...
On Jan 28th, Adobe released Shockwave Player 10.3.0.24. The Shockwave player allows you to play dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations and online learning applications.
On Jan 28th, Technitium MAC Address Changer v4.8 was released. Technitium MAC Address Changer allows you to change Media Access Control (MAC) Address of your Network Interface Card (NIC) irrespective to your NIC manufacturer or its driver.
On Jan 25th, µTorrent 1.7.7 was released. uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. This release addresses a recent DoS security vulnerability.
On Jan 21st, Core Security released the Pass-The-Hash Toolkit v1.2. The Pass-The-Hash Toolkit contains utilities to manipulate the Windows Logon Sessions maintained by the LSA (Local Security Authority) component.
On Jan 20th, Christian Martorella released Wfuzz v1.4. Wfuzz is a tool designed for bruteforcing Web Applications, it can be used for finding resources not linked (directories, servlets, scripts, etc), bruteforce GET and POST parameters for checking different kind of injections (SQL, XSS, LDAP,etc), bruteforce Forms parameters (User/Password), Fuzzing,etc.
On Jan 20th, Icesurfer released Sqlninja 0.2.2. Sqlninja is a tool targeted to exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web application that uses Microsoft SQL Server as its back-end. It is written in Perl and released under the GPLv2.
On Jan 19th, Tor 0.1.2.19 was released. Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. See the release notes for more details.
On Jan 19th, Apache released a load of updates - Apache 2.2.8, Apache 2.0.63 and Apache 1.3.41. All three new releases addressed several security issues, so it is advised to update your Apache installations.
On Jan 18th, Winamp 5.52 was released. This version addresses a known Ultravox streaming metadata buffer overflow vulnerability. Check the version history for the details.
On Jan 17th, CCleaner v2.04.543 was released. CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. Check the full version history for all the details.
On Jan 15th, Nessus 3.1.9 Beta for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris was released. Check the news release for all the details.
On Jan 9th, newsgator.com released Feed Demon 2.6.0.21. Feed Demon is a very powerful RSS reader. I used Feed Demon 2.5 in the past but moved to FeedReader in the effort to support the open source project. However, after using FeedReader for a while, I saw what made FeedDemon so great - its performance. But v2.6 is even better....why? Because it is now FREE! No joke.
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