Daniel Spisak on Technology

The popular active OS fingerprinting tool used in Nessus, Xprobe2 has released a new update today with significantly updated OS fingerprints in its database for:

- FreeBSD 5.3; 5.2.1; 5.2; 4.10; 4.9
- Linux Kernel 2.6.9; 2.6.8; 2.6.7; 2.6.6; 2.6.5; 2.6.4; 2.6.3; 2.6.2; 2.6.1; 2.6.0
- Linux Kernel 2.4.28; 2.4.27; 2.4.26; 2.4.25; 2.4.24; 2.4.23; 2.4.22
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2
- NetBSD 2.0; 1.6.2
- OpenBSD 3.6; 3.5; 3.4
- Sun Solaris 10

Plus port scanning! And bugfixes!

Fydor released a new version of the popular Nmap security scanner software today at DEFCON 13. Look for his updated presentation and new codebase to come online later today at http://www.insecure.org/presentations/Defcon13/. This new version adds ARP scanning capabilities along while a whole other host of new useful capabilities. Worth checking out!

As seen at Tom’s Hardware

Yesterday, Michael Lynn, a computer security expert, demonstrated an attack against Cisco routers to a packed audience at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Today we learned that Cisco and Lynn’s former employer, Internet Security Solutions, have responded by filing a restraining order and removing his presentation material from the conference CD.
With the news of the Cisco IOS vulnerability hitting the Internet, attendees at Black Hat were able to pick up a CD with PDFs of all the talks. Cisco employees Mike Caudill and Richard Aceves handed out the CDs. Every presentation was on the disc except for one: Michael Lynn’s.

Attendees immediately saw that these CDs were different from the traditional attendee CDs. In previous years, the CD was colored black and red. In sharp contrast, as you can see from the photo, these CDs look much different and appear to be recently burned.

Looking through the CD, we saw all the updated talks listed in alphabetical order, but Michael Lynn’s talk was missing. According to sources, the original CD with Lynn’s presentation will be published on the Internet.

Rumors continued to spread about an escalating battle bewtween Lynn, ISS and Cisco. However, we were not able to confirm these speculations, which included potential plans of Cisco to file additional legal action hitting Lynn with a copyright violation suit for reverse engineering of the Cisco operating system.

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Dan here…so from what I am hearing from people at DEFCON here today not all the cds with the original presentation and notes were confiscated and some may be showing up in places online shortly. More information as I get it.

Apple today released updates to the iBook and Mac Mini Lines. Basically in a nutshell:

12.1″ iBook
1.33GHz G4
512MB DDR SDRAM
40GB HD
Combo CD-Rom/CD-RW/DVD-ROM
32MB Radeon 9550 Video
$999

14″ iBook
1.42GHz G4
512MB DDR SDRAM
60GB HD
SuperDrive
32MB Radeon 9550 Video
$1299

Mac Mini
1.25GHz PowerPC G4
512MB DDR333 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9200 32MB DDR video memory
40GB Ultra ATA hard drive
Combo drive (DVD/CD-RW)
Optional AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth
Built-in 56k Internal Modem
$499

1.42GHz PowerPC G4
512MB DDR333 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9200
32MB DDR video memory
80GB Ultra ATA hard drive
Combo drive (DVD/CD-RW)
DVI or VGA video output
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth
Optional 56k Internal Modem
$599

1.42GHz PowerPC G4
512MB DDR333 SDRAM
ATI Radeon 9200
32MB DDR video memory
80GB Ultra ATA hard drive
SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
DVI or VGA video output
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth
Optional 56k Internal Modem
$699

So in a nutshell a somewhat better videocard for the iBooks along with bumped up processor speeds slightly and a reduction in cost of the high end iBook. The Mac mini basically becomes slightly cheaper and a better deal at the mid-range point.

Now if we can just get a PowerBook update between now and MWSF I think we will see something actually exciting then.