Friday, August 5, 2011

Freemake

Freemake.com has two free utilities:  a video converter and a video downloader.  The converter supports converting video to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, SWF, 3GP, DVD, MPEG, DVD, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android, YouTube, and more.  The downloader supports YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, MTV, Vimeo, ComedyCentral, Dailymotion, Megavideo, and more. 

http://www.freemake.com/

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Mantra

Mantra is a set of security tools built within Firefox.  Mantra is a security framework which can be very helpful in performing all the five phases of attacks including reconnaissance, scanning and enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, and covering tracks. Apart from that it also contains a set of tools targeted for web developers and code debuggers which makes it handy for both offensive security and defensive security related tasks.

http://www.getmantra.com/

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

PowerShell Scriptomatic

This is an utility that writes WMI scripts for system administration using PowerShell.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=24121

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Closethedoor

Closethedoor is a Windows utility that identifies all the listening ports TCP/UDP over IPv4/v6 and the associated program files.  A portable version is available.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/closethedoor/

Monday, July 4, 2011

Xinorbis

Xinorbis is a simple but powerful hard disk analyzer.  Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays, it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk, folder, removable or network drive.  A portable version is also available.

http://www.xinorbis.com/

RawTherapee

RawTherapee is a free RAW converter and digital photo processing software.

http://www.rawtherapee.com/

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Capturing network traffic using NETSH

With Windows 7 and 2008 Server R2, network traffic can be captured using the NETSH command.  Within an elevated command prompt, enter the following command:

netsh trace start capture=yes tracefile=c:\yourcapture.etl

netsh_capture_1

To stop the capture process, use the command:

netsh trace stop

netsh_capture_2

A .ETL file should be present within the path specified.

netsh_capture_3

The file can be viewed within Microsoft’s Network Monitor application.  With version 3.4, the details of each packet would not display correctly.  To solve this problem, change the Parser Profile from the Default value to Windows.

netsh_capture_4

Friday, July 1, 2011

DragonDisk

DragonDisk is a file-management system for the Amazon S3 Service.

DragonDisk will backup, share and organize your data thanks to an intuitive interface similar to Windows Explorer's.

http://www.dragondisk.com/

Monday, June 6, 2011

Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer

The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using LDAP, and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange Server topology.  The diagrams may include domains, sites, servers, organizational units, DFS-R, administrative groups, routing groups and connectors and can be changed manually in Visio if needed.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb42fc06-50c7-47ed-a65c-862661742764&pf=true

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer

Attack Surface Analyzer is the same tool used by Microsoft's internal product teams to catalogue changes made to the operating system by the installation of new software.

Its a Microsoft verification tool to highlight the changes in system state, runtime parameters and securable objects on the Windows operating system. This analysis helps developers, testers and IT professionals identify increases in the attack surface caused by installing applications on a machine.

Attack Surface Analyzer takes a snapshot of your system state before and after the installation of product(s) and displays the changes to a number of key elements of the Windows attack surface. The tool does not analyze a system based on signatures or known vulnerabilities; instead, it looks for classes of security weaknesses as applications are installed on the Windows operating system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1283b765-f57d-4ebb-8f0a-c49c746b44b9&displaylang=en&pf=true