http://midnightresearch.com Like a party with a CVS repository Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:12:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Time to get your download on! Backtrack3 is out, and ready for downloads. In addition to all of the normal goodies, it also comes with a trial version of SAINT (wow I haven't seen that in a while), and the community edition of Maltego. Of course, ... http://midnightresearch.com/pages/backtrack3-final-is-out/ The guys over at Professional Security Testers recently posted about a new open source forensics tool named PTK. It's an updated front end for sleuth kit, which could possibly replace the current interface, Autopsy, which has been getting pretty stale. Autopsy is pretty good, but I've found if ... http://midnightresearch.com/pages/new-open-source-forensics-gui/ It's finally here. The pre-qualification round for the Defcon CTF challenge happens just a couple short weeks away over the weekend of May 30th. Everyone sharpen your tools and prepare for a marathon -- It's almost go time. http://midnightresearch.com/pages/defcon-2008-ctf-pre-quals/ There is a new plugin now available for Wicrawl. Getip Plugin obtains AP's public IP address by injecting traffic destined to a public IP address on the Internet. This plugin will work for unencrypted and WEP encrypted (easside-ng) networks. A special tool was developed just for this plugin called norside ... http://midnightresearch.com/pages/wicrawl-getip-plugin/ I found openpacket.org while doing a bit of RSS trolling this morning. I think it's a pretty interesting idea, and I hope it catches on. The basic idea is to create an open online repository of packet captures for researchers to check out. You can even vote ... http://midnightresearch.com/pages/openpacketorg/ The official announcement, and CFP for the Toorcon Seattle conference went out recently. By all reports, the Toorcon Seattle beta conference went really well last year, and every San Diego Toorcon that I've been to has been phenomenal. I'm sure this new version of the conference will be ... http://midnightresearch.com/pages/toorcon-seattle/ Shmoocon is this weekend! For anyone lucky or persistent enough to get tickets, we'll see you there! It looks like there are some good presenters there. I'm looking forward to seeing Josh Wright's new talk on PEAP: Pwned Extensible Authentication Protocol. http://midnightresearch.com/pages/shmoocon-1000/ Video and Audio material from Defcon 15 is now officially available on Defcon Media Archives page. A video of Wicrawl presentation by our very own Aaron can be obtained here. http://midnightresearch.com/pages/defcon-15-videos-online/ Greetings from Tahoe. It looks like there is a new release of Metasploit out now. It includes among other things a GUI, full windows support, some new wifi fuzzing modules, a bunch of new exploits, and Scruby, which is a ruby port of an awesome tool, Scapy. "Metasploit 3.1 ... http://midnightresearch.com/pages/metasploit-31/ Great news come from Security-Database.com, a popular security web portal. SEAT (Search Engine Assessment Tool) is listed as a recommended Information Gathering tool in annual listing of Best IT Security and Auditing Softwares 2007. To celebrate this event, we are releasing an updated version of SEAT to include updated signature ... http://midnightresearch.com/pages/seat-included-in-best-it-security-and-auditing-softwares-2007/