HD Moore’s open-source Metasploit Framework has been rewritten from scratch and released with 177 exploits, 104 payloads and new modules to exploit Wi-Fi driver vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel.
In addition to hundreds of exploits and payloads, Moore said Metasploit 3.0 also ships with 30 auxiliary modules to perform tasks like host discovery, protocol fuzzing, and denial-of-service testing. See Ryan Naraine’s report on the new version here.
The Apple TV’s place in the consumer electornics market is still up for debate, but there is one cool thing that it is uniquely good at – playing video podcasts on TV. TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner shows he used the Apple TV to watch video from kentuckyderby.com.
The World of Warcraft expansion pack, The Burning Crusade, added two new player races and several new areas for players to explore. One of those new races, the Blood Elves, has a new area just for the teen levels called Ghostland.
In a manipulative attempt to demonstrate leadership over AMD for the press and analysts, Intel twists benchmark data to make it look as though it’s latest Xeons are outperforming the best AMD has to offer. Yet, upon closer inspection, most of the data being shown is irrelevant.
AM-DeadLink is a handy freeware application that helps you clean the dead links from your Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, or Opera bookmarks or favorites list.
The final Herd (alpha) release of Ubuntu before the beta and release candidate versions of 7.04 Feisty Fawn are released. New in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn herd 5 is significant UI improvements, X.Org 7.2, improved desktop effects support, and much more.
Continuing TechRepublic’s look at the latest crop of wireless broadband PCMCIA cards for laptops, we take a first look at the offering from Verizon Wireless. The Qualcomm 3G card connects users to the Verizon Nation Broadband network using cell phone technology, but it can also connect using the standard 802.11 wireless protocol, depending on which is more advantageous.
A collection of screen shots from Microsoft Convergence in San Diego showing off the evolving, role-based user interfaces for Microsoft’s Dynamics ERP applications.
Much has been written, speculated and conjectured about the Nintendo Wii Remote. As a follow-up to our disassembly of the Wii we decided to crock open the Wii Remote to see for ourselves. To our surprise, although in hindsight it shouldn’t have been, the device maintains Nintendo’s design theme of simple and functional.