Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a unique way to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them.
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/07/10/dna_sewing_machine.html
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On to the tools....
On July 10th, Cain & Abel v4.9.18 was released. Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
On July 10th,, Wireshark 1.02 was released. Five dissector-based security issues were fixed in v1.01, but this version addresses another security issue.
On July 10th, NullSoft released Winamp 5.54. Check the version history for all the details.
On July 9th, Sun Microsystems released Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 7. This release addresses a number of serious vulnerabilities.
On July 8th, TrueCrypt 6.0a was released. TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. Check the version history for all the updates. I upgrade my fully encrypted personal laptop today..and haven't encountered any problems.
On July 7th, Paint.NET 3.3.5 was released. Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run XP, Server 2003 or Vista. This releases introduces a new Posterize adjustment, a new Intersect selection mode, dramatically improved performance for selection editing, and several small bug fixes.
On July 5th, Filezilla 3.0.1.11 was released. FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. Check the changelog for all the details.
On July 2nd, Core Security released Pass-The-Hash Toolkit v1.4. The Pass-The-Hash Toolkit contains utilities to manipulate the Windows Logon Sessions maintained by the LSA (Local Security Authority) component. These tools allow you to list the current logon sessions with its corresponding NTLM credentials (e.g.: users remotely logged in thru Remote Desktop/Terminal Services), and also change in runtime the current username, domain name, and NTLM hashes (YES, PASS-THE-HASH on Windows!).
On July 1st, Pidgin 2.4.3 was released. Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Check the changelog for all the details.
On June 29th, CDBurner XP 4.1.2.678 was released. CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. This was mainly a bugfix release.
On June 28th, Nmap 4.68 was released. Check the changelog for all the details.
On June 26th, CCleaner 2.09.600 was released. Check the version history for all the details.
On June 20th, RFDump 1.6 was released. RFDump is a tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information: Tag ID, Tag Type, manufacturer etc. The user data memory of a tag can be displayed and modified using either a Hex or an ASCII editor.
On June 3rd, Sandro Gauci released SIPVicious v0.2.3. SIPVicious is a set of python tools that address the need for traditional security tools to be ported to SIP. This package consists of a SIP scanner, a SIP wardialer, and a SIP PBX cracker. This beta version supports the SRV records and fingerprinting. For SRV records to work correctly, you will need dnspython as well.
On May 30th, Tillmann Werner released Nebula 0.2.2. Nebula is a data analysis tool that automatically generates intrusion signatures from attack traces. It runs as a daemon that processes data submitted from honeypots. New signatures are published as Snort rules and can be used to defend a network from future intrusion attempts.
On May 30th, Nessus 3.2.1 was released. This new version contains a new report filtering mechanism in the client, adds support for Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 and re-introduces support for Windows 2000, and fixes several bugs. Check the release notes for all the change details.
On May 29th, Kismet-2008-05-R1 was released. Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. This version has loads of bugfixes - Darwin, GPS, Nokia, GPS handling, wrt54 broadcom, Imagemagick, assorted configure and compile fixes.
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