Laura Lab Kit v9.0 released

The ISO for the kit can be downloaded here:
http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine/laurachappell.html
dD loves Laura...

PS3 users watch your wallets...

It looks like some PS3 PLAYSTATION®Store users have had their details compromised. Judging by the number of forum posts to be found by googling a few people have been affected:
http://uk.playstation.com/home/news/articles/detail/item98438/Notice-to-PLAYSTATION%C2%AENetwork-Users/

Get tickets for Euro 2008, get your machine hacked...

The web site euroticketshop.com contains code that will download a trojan to fans wanting to purchase tickets for euro 2008:
http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2008/03/1226.html

Apple getting worse at patching

Researchers presenting at Blackhat Amssterdam showed that vendors' response to security vulnerabilities indicate that MS is improving whilst Apple is steadily getting worse:
http://www.techzoom.net/papers/blackhat_0day_patch_2008.pdf

SIW

dD just cam accross this fantastic tool from Gabriel Topala:
http://www.gtopala.com/

To quote the web site:
"SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner. SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for Asset Inventory Tracking, Computer (Software and Hardware) Inventory, PC Audit, Software Audit, Software License Compliance Management)."

There is an installer and also a stand alone executable.
There is also functionality similar to SnadBoy (the password revealer) to reveal any password areas. Just click on the Eureka! button. You can change the machine's MAC address, scan the network 'hood, ....

This one is going straight into dD's toolkit. It beats the pants of msinfo in gathering data from a Windows box!

dD

Hacking smart cards on Vista

Rather than focussing on the chip , Dan Griffin attacks Vista middleware instead:
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=148438

Respect to IC for this one again.
dD

my kind of captcha

if only all all captchas were this interesting! It works well though and I wonder if it has any merit. It still boils down to multiple choice.

http://www.hotcaptcha.com/

dD