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On to the tools....
On Sept 13th, VirtualBox 2.0.2 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).
On Sept 12th, Nmap 4.76 was released. This latest release appears to be mainly a bug fix release, but Nmap 4.75 added a ton of new stuff - network visualization tool in Zenmap, port frequency data, performance improvements, etc. Check the changelog for all the details.
On Sept 10th, Apple released Quicktime 7.55.90.70. This release addressed several serious security vulnerabilities. It is recommended to upgrade if you are currently using an older version.
On Sept 9th, Tor 0.2.0.31 was released. Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues. Check the release notes for all the change details.
On Sept 7th, KeePass 1.13 was released. KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. It is recommended to upgrade from any previous 1.x version to 1.13.
On Sept 4th, Clam AntiVirus 0.94 was released. This release addressed a CHM file parsing (DoS) vulnerability. Check the changelog for all the details.
On Sept 3rd, Wireshark 1.0.3 was released. Security-related bugs in the NCP dissector, zlib compression code, and Tektronix .rf5 file parser have been fixed. In addition, Wireshark now supports WPA group key decryption.
On Sept 1st, Distrack 1.1.0 was released. Distack is a framework for local and distributed attack detection and traffic analysis. It can run on live interfaces or traces files, as well as in simulation environments. Therefore it provides easy ways to develop attack detection mechanisms and evaluate them on a large-scale in simulated networks.
On Sept 1st, JkDefrag 3.36 was released. GPL disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies and USB disks/sticks.
On Aug 28th, Pidgin 2.5.1 was released. Pidgin (previously called Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. This release is mainly a bug-fix release. Check the changelog for all the details.
On Aug 27th, Paint.Net 3.36 was released. Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run XP, Server 2003 or Vista. This is mostly a servicing release to make some small improvements and to fix a few important bugs.
On Aug 25th, Cain & Abel v4.9.21 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. This release added some cool new features.
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