Burp Suite Free Edition v1.4 – Web Application Security Testing Tool

Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application’s attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.

Burp gives you full control, letting you combine advanced manual techniques with state-of-the-art automation, to make your work faster, more effective, and more fun.

New Features

• The ability to compare site maps
• Functions to help with testing access controls using your browser
• Support for preset request macros
• Session handling rules to help you work with difficult situations
• In-browser rendering of responses from all Burp tools
• Auto recognition and rendering of character sets
• Support for upstream SOCKS proxies
• Headless mode for unattended scripted usage
• Support for more types of redirection
• Support for NTLMv2 and IPv6
• Numerous enhancements to Burp’s extensibility

And if want to try it out uyou can download it for free here:
   burpsuite_v1.4.zip

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Yahoo are willing to buy Hulu for a price tag of $2 Billion

 

Yahoo would pay up to $2 billion to buy Web TV site Hulu from its current owners –  Disney, News Corporation, Comcast, and private equity firm Providence Equity Partners –  a source familiar with Yahoo's M&A plans tells us.
But Yahoo's corporate development people will only bring that type of deal to the Yahoo board if only hulu will guarantee them with four or five years of exclusive access to current TV shows and older movies.
According to Bloomberg report which was published yesterday  suggested Hulu's owners are only willing to offer Hulu's new owner five years of access, but only two years of exclusivity.
Without four or five years of exclusive streaming rights to TV shows and movies, Hulu is "not worth anything."
Hulu has some "nice technology," but if it doesn't come with exclusive rights, Yahoo would probably be better off just submitting a competing bid for the right to stream TV shows and movies.

"It would cost a lot less."

On the other hand, If Hulu had exclusivity for four or five years, that would gives Hulu's new owner – Yahoo, in this scenario – enough time to "build enough equity with consumers that you've created a real leader in premium content and premium advertising."

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US Police Got Access To Facebook Users’ Details

US federal agencies are receiving warrants for detailed access to people’s Facebook accounts without their knowledge.

Reuters reported that within the last 3 years, federal judges have authorized at least 25 warrants to search people’s Facebook accounts to different agencies, including the FBI, DEA and ICE, during investigations ranging from arson to terrorism.

Facebook provides the authorities with a detailed package of profile and photo data which isn’t even available to users themselves. Now, it seems that the police are getting so addicted to the amount of useful information they are able to receive from those profiles, that the coppers are hitting the courts for more and more warrants. So far, the federal agencies have been granted at least 11 warrants to search Facebook profiles since the beginning of 2011, which is double the number for all of the last year. Moreover, this figure may be much higher as some of the records are sealed.

Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer for Facebook, pointed out that Facebook was very sensitive to user privacy, regularly trying to push back against the “fishing expeditions” of the police. However, the industry observers found out that none of those provided warrants have been challenged on the grounds that it infringed people's Fourth Amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure. The reason for that is simple – neither defendants nor their “friends” knew about those warrants, because neither Facebook nor the authorities is obliged to notify users whose accounts are subject to a search by law enforcement.

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