Michal Zalewski has announced a new Google’s tool for automated web security scanning.

Attack Simulation and Threat Modeling is a free electronic book that explores the abundant resources available in advanced security data collection, classification, processing and mining. It attempts to give insight into a number of alternative methods of security and attack analytics that leverage methodologies adopted from various other disciplines in extracting valuable data to support security research work and chart a course for enterprise security decision making.

HBGary released Responder Professional 2.0, a Windows physical memory and automated malware analysis tool. The Professional platform is designed for Incident Responders, Malware Analysts, and Computer Forensic Investigators who require rapid results. Responder Professional provides powerful memory forensics and malware identification with Digital DNA.

A little trick allows to open a secret control panel in Windows 7 with lots of settings combined by categories in one convenient place.

After three months of beta testing, the final version of Microsoft’s free antivirus tool Security Essentials has been released.

Essential security starts with keeping your programs updated and plugging the holes used by criminals and malware. Secunia Personal Software Inspector helps users plug all the security holes on their machine.

atsec information security today published the “IT security standard planetarium”, which depicts the relationships among many IT security standards.

The third final version of BackTrack has been released two days ago.

Ed Skoudis describes some of built-in Windows commands. They can be useful to determine if a system has been hacked.

Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit Framework, Wireshark and KisMAC are featured in yesterday’s Computerworld article.