GeoIPgen v0.4 – Country-to-IPs generator
4 hours ago
^This tool specifically allows setting policies with regards to what ciphers and protocols are available to applications that use SCHANNEL crypto interface. A lot of windows applications do use this interface, for instance Google Chrome as well as Apple Safari are a few of these. By changing the settings you can indirectly control what ciphers these applications are allowed to use.
Apart from scanning available ciphersuites it has an interesting tidbit : The Fingerprint mode (Experimental). Included is an experimental fingerprint engine that tries to determine the SSL Engine used server side. It does so by sending normal and malformed SSL packets that can be interpreted in different ways.
G-SEC released an advisory today that affects various Computer Associates products. The most interesting part is the multitude of ways this vulnerability can be triggered, if you skim through the list of affected products you can draw your own picture. Network, USB, Email, CD, DVD, OLE2 (DOC, XLS) and more.