Tools Updates

Been a good week for Pen testing tools with a number of major packages getting updates.

Netsparker 2.1 was released and can crawl, attack and identify vulnerabilities in all custom web applications regardless of the platform and the technology it's built on, just like an actual attacker.

THC-HYDRA 7.2 - a network login bruteforce tool was updated,  Hydra is a parallised login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.Hydra was tested to compile on Linux, Windows/Cygwin, Solaris 11, FreeBSD 8.1 and OSX, and is made available under GPLv3 with a special OpenSSL license expansion

Tenable Network Security announced Nessus 5.0, a vulnerability and configuration assessment solution for enterprises and security professionals.

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 (WVS) was released and echoes years of counter-hacking experience through its new ability to lock hackers out by integrating scan results into Imperva’s Web Application Firewall, and by recognizing a new breed of vulnerabilities through new detection methods.

Metasploit 4.2 Released added 54 new exploits, 66 new auxiliary modules, 43 new post-exploitation modules, and 18 new payloads