Details have emerged of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) plans to test fly its two expendable dart-shaped Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV)-2 demonstrators.
To be launched by Orbital Sciences Minotaur solid-fuel rockets from Vandenberg Air Force Base, HTV-2a will fly in May 2009 and HTV-2b will follow in the October of that year.
While the two flights have separate trajectories they will both impact near the Kwajalein Atoll test site in the Pacific Ocean. HTV-1 was a ground test demonstrator.
The first flight will demonstrate performance characteristics, and the second cross-range manoeuvring as well as thermal protection system performance.
The two HTVs will use inertial navigational measurement units and global positioning system (GPS) for guidance, while testing satellite communications and GPS reception through the plasma that will surround the vehicles during their flight.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/004153.html
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On to the tools...
On May 2nd, Mozilla released Thunderbird 2.0.0.14. This version fixes two security issues.
On May 2nd, Wine 0.9.61 was released. Wine is a project to allow a PC running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to run x86 programs for Microsoft Windows. Wine is finally in code freeze in preparation for releasing wine 1.0. Check out the release announcement for all the change details.
On May 2nd, innotek released VirtualBox 1.6. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
On May 2nd, Paint.NET 3.31 was released. Paint.NET is an open source image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run XP, Server 2003 or Vista. Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers.
On April 28th, Piriform released CCleaner 2.07.575. CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. Check out the full version history file for all the details.
On April 28th, Shreyas Zare released Technitium MAC Address Changer v5.0. 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. It has a very simple user interface and provides ample information regarding each NIC in the machine.
On April 27th, Foxit Software released Foxit Reader 2.3.2825. Foxit Reader is a free reader for PDF documents. The new version 2.3 includes a multimedia player feature allowing Foxit users to not only read PDFs, but to watch and listen to the audio/video elements coming with PDFs as well. Check out the "What's New" page for more details.
On April 25th, foofus.net released fgdump v2.0.0 and pwdump6 v1.7.1. Fgdump is a utility for dumping passwords on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 machines. Pwdump6 is a significantly modified version of pwdump3e, this program is able to extract NTLM and LanMan hashes from a Windows target, regardless of whether Syskey is enabled. It is also capable of displaying password histories if they are available. It outputs the data in L0phtcrack-compatible form, and can write to an output file.
On April 24th, Grisoft Inc. released AVG Free Edition 8.0.100. AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.
On April 21st, Piriform released Recuva v1.13.304. Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. I have not personally used this tool yet, but if the quality is anywhere near CCleaner...then I will trust it to find that deleted file, when needed.
On April 20th, Java released Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 6 (1.6.0.6). Check out the Release Notes for all the change details.
On April 20th, Christian Martorella released Metagoofil v1.4. Metagoofil is an information gathering tool designed for extracting metadata of public documents (pdf,doc,xls,ppt,odp,ods) available in the target/victim websites. This new version extracts MAC address from Microsoft Office documents. Now you can have an idea of what kind of hardware they are using.
On April 3rd, OpenSSH 5.0 was released. This version was released to address CVE-2008-1483.
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