Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Obtaining Installation Media for Windows 8.1
The link below offers an utility to create installation media for Windows 8.1. Once downloaded and executed, the application will ask a few questions such as 32-bit vs. 64-bit. The user account in question must be a member of the local Administrators group before the utility will launch correctly.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media
ABC-Update
ABC-Update is a free utility from ABC-Deploy. It can be used as a standalone tool, or in conjunction with software distribution tools like ABC-Deploy, MS SCCM and others. ABC-Update.exe is a command line tool that sets you in control of MS Update operations.
Arachni
Arachni is an Open Source, feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web applications.
AD ACL Scanner
AD ACL Scanner is a PowerShell script. Once executed, it will display a graphical interface. The utility will create reports of access control lists (DACLs) and system access control lists (SACLs) in Active Directory.
Monday, December 1, 2014
CipherShed
CipherShed is a free encryption software that started as a fork of the now-discontinued TrueCrypt Project. CipherShed will be available for Windows, Mac OS, and GNU/Linux.
Justniffer
Justniffer is a network protocol analyzer that captures network traffic and produces logs in a customized way, can emulate Apache web server log files, track response times and extract all "intercepted" files from the HTTP traffic.