A missile shield test was a "smashing success," Pentagon officials said Friday, despite the failure of the test to put to rest concerns that the interceptor might not be able to differentiate between real missiles and decoys.
The ground-based interceptor missile, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, destroyed a long-range ballistic missile launched from Kodiak, Alaska, the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency said.
But one key aspect of the test -- to see whether the system could tell the difference between a missile and a decoy aimed at confounding its "seek" systems -- failed because the decoy did not deploy.
Officials told CNN on Thursday that Friday's test would be the most realistic of 13 missile shield system tests conducted to date. Eight of the 13 tests have now been deemed a success by the Pentagon.
On to the tools.....
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On Dec 5th, Wine 1.1.10 was released. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Check out the announcement for all the change details.
On Dec 5th, Tor 2.0.32 was released. Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. This version includes multiple security fixes including a fix to a DoS vulnerability.
On Dec 3rd, Java JRE 6 Update 11 was released. This version includes a large number of secuirty fixes, therefore I would recommend everyone to upgrade as soon as possible.
On Dec 3rd, Filezilla 3.1.6 was released. FileZilla is a powerful FTP-client for Windows NT4, 2000 and XP. This version includes some minor bug fixes and improvements.
On Dec 2nd, 7-Zip 4.62 was released. 7-Zip is an open source file archiver predominantly for the Microsoft Windows operating system.
On Dec 1st, WinSCP 4.1.8 was released. WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Check the history file for all the change details.
On Dec 1st, TrueCrypt 6.1a was released. TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. This version has minor improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements. If you are using an older version of TrueCrypt, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to the latest stable version.
On Nov 28th, Cain & Abel v4.9.24 was released. This version includes the following features: Oracle 11g (case sensitive) Password Extractor via ODBC, Oracle 11g Password Cracker (Dictionary and Brute-Force Attacks), support for Oracle TNS 11g (AES-192) in Oracle TNS Hashes Password Cracker, support for Oracle TNS 11g (AES-192) in Oracle TNS sniffer filter, and an Experimental SQL Query tool via ODBC. Be sure to check out their Oracle 11g TNS AES-192 Authentication Details paper as well. It is unknown weather this version fixes the recent RDP local buffer overflow security vulnerability.
On Nov 26th, CCleaner 2.14.763 was released. 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. This version fixed a minor bug in Firefox 2 cookies support.
On Nov 24th, Browser Rider was released. “Browser Rider” is a hacking framework to build payloads that exploit the browser. The project aims to provide a powerful, simple and flexible interface to any client side exploit. Browser Rider is not a new concept. Similar tools such as BeEF or Backframe exploited the same concept. However most of the other existing tools out there are not updated and not documented. Browser Rider wants to fill those gaps by providing a better alternative.
On Nov 21th, Virtual Box 2.0.6 was released. VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Check the changelog for all the details.
On Nov 21st, Foxit Reader 3.0.1120 was released. Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only a few M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Check the bug fix report for all the change details.
On Nov 19th, HD Moore released Metasploit v3.2. The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code. Metasploit is used by network security professionals to perform penetration tests, system administrators to verify patch installations, product vendors to perform regression testing, and security researchers world-wide. This new version is jam-packed with new features.
On Nov 16th, Adam Lauire released RFIDIOt 0.1u. RFIDIOt is a python library for exploring RFID devices. It currently drives a couple of RFID readers made by ACG, called the HF Dual ISO and the LFX. Includes sample programs to read/write tags and the beginnings of library routines to handle the data structures of specific tags like MIFARE(r). This version includes support for JCOP Mifare emulation.
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