.:Computer Defense:.

Hey Hey,

I think the first thing that needs to be mentioned is Jerry Taylor and the city of Tuttle... those of you that haven't heard of this yet... check out http://www.centos.org/127_story.html?storyid=127, I can't believe this guy would actualy threaten to call the FBI on CentOS because someone had installed their OS... Read it, laugh at him, understand why he's been making the news everywhere lately and then google him and the city and send him an email.

Other fun news includes the release of ophcrack 2.2, my favourite password cracking program... it's a handy little thing. They've also put the Ophcrack Live CD 1.0 up on their website.. I haven't played with it yet, but I'm always welcoming new things.. so let me know how it goes. - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ophcrack. In the FD thread regarding this topic... this also made mention - http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/~oechslin/projects/ophcrack/SSTIC04-2.7k.zip, a 1150MB set of Rainbow tables from what I can tell... I have it downloading as we speak

Next, we have FrSIRT, who has decided to start charging for exploits... I know this is a little old... but hey, I've been busy... read the article @ http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1938511,00.asp

After that we've got a whole slew of new software from iDefense being released free of charge

Codis - A Console Based Disassembler - http://labs.idefense.com/labs-software.php?show=18
COMRaider - A COM Object Interface Fuzzer - http://labs.idefense.com/labs-software.php?show=20
HookExplorer - A Utility to scan a target process and identify userland hooks - http://labs.idefense.com/labs-software.php?show=19

Lastly, we have the Kororaa project which has released an Xgl Live CD for people wishing to test it -- http://kororaa.org/

Peace,
HT