PacketFence NAC System

If you want more control over which devices or endpoints access the network, PacketFence is for you. If you are looking at giving only Internet access to guests on your network, PacketFence is for you. If your network is a breeding ground for attacks, computer viruses or worms, PacketFence is for you.

PacketFence is a network access control (NAC) system. It is actively maintained and has been deployed in numerous large-scale institutions. It can be used to effectively secure networks, from small to very large heterogeneous networks. PacketFence provides NAC-oriented features such as registration of new network devices, detection of abnormal network activities including from remote snort sensors, isolation of problematic devices, remediation through a captive portal, and registration-based and scheduled vulnerability scans.

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Malicious Cryptography

Cryptology is the study of the hidden word. It is an essential technology in times of war and has been in existence for thousands of years. The strategic positioning of troops is both a logistical challenge as well as a challenge from the perspective of information theory, since command and control information is subject to interception. It may be argued that cryptography has always had a dark side, since an enemy that uses it effectively will be able to conceal future enemy troop movements and other valuable information from allied forces. However, Malicious Cryptography digs much deeper into the dual-edged nature of cryptography. It shows how modern cryptographic paradigms and tools, including asymmetric cryptography, pseudorandom generators, reduction arguments, the random oracle model, etc. can in fact be used to degrade system security. The book details advanced computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horse programs that mount unprecedented attacks against their hosts. In short, it provides a glimpse of the future of information warfare, and also covers many of the tools that can be used to guard against these advanced threats to computing environments.

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Samurai v0.8 Released

Samurai Web Testing Framework v0.8 Released
This is quite a major release with the integration of metasploit, target applications and tons of tool updates. It is now DVD sized as it has out grown the CD release.
The Samurai Web Testing Framework is a live linux environment that has been pre-configured to function as a web pen-testing environment. The CD contains the best of the open source and free tools that focus on testing and attacking websites

Starting with reconnaissance, we have included tools such as the Fierce domain scanner and Maltego. For mapping, we have included tools such WebScarab and ratproxy. We then chose tools for discovery. These would include w3af and burp. For exploitation, the final stage, we included BeEF, AJAXShell and much more. This CD also includes a pre-configured wiki, set up to be the central information store during your pen-test.

The Samurai project team is happy to announce the release of a development version of the Samurai Web Testing Framework. This release is currently a fully functional linux environment that has a number of the tools pre-installed.

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OpenSCAP

The OpenSCAP Project was created to provide an open-source framework to the community which enables integration with the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) suite of standards and capabilities. It is the goal of OpenSCAP to provide a simple, easy to use set of interfaces to serve as the framework for community use of SCAP.

SCAP is a line of standards managed by NIST. It was created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of enterprise systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for signs of compromise.

The SCAP suite contains multiple complex data exchange formats that are to be used to transmit important vulnerability, configuration, and other security data. Historically, there have been few tools that provide a way to query this data in the needed format. This lack of tools makes the barrier to entry very high and discourages adoption of these protocols by the community. It’s our goal to create a framework of libraries to improve the accessibility of SCAP and enhance the usability of the information it represents. Tools for parsing SCAP documents and querying content must be created to achieve this. This requires common set of interfaces to be defined and implemented to meet this need. It is the intent of this project to provide these interfaces and functional examples that would allow others in the open-source and vendor communities to make use of SCAP while minimizing the effort needed to gain value from it.

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Proxy Switcher PRO v3.9.0.4

When you visit a particular website. Or your access to various social networking and entertainment sites has been blocked.

The solution is to use Proxy Switcher for all the anonymous browsing needs. It can be used to avoid all sorts of limitations imposed by various sites. Be that a download site that limits amount of downloads. Or video site works only in a particular country - more often than not it gets defeated by the anonymous browsing features Proxy Switcher provides.

On top of that, if you used to manually change proxy settings Proxy Switcher provides a way to change them much faster and easier.

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