Alpine Linux 2.6.1 released

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 2.6.1 of its Alpine Linux operating system. This is a bugfix release. Some of the highlights are: DMVPN works again (issue #1782) default kernel based on 3.9.4 &hel...

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Looking for SSH servers

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Banner grabbing for SSH server is like bannergrabbing for web server. Let’s say bannergrabbing is bannergrabbing and a part of the reconnaissance while performing a  security test. nc [crayon-51c1bc29bd28f/] scanssh [crayon-51c1bc29be22d/] nm...

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Installing SET (Social Engineering Toolkit) on Fedora

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

A while back I wrote a little blog post about the installation of the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) on Fedora. In the meantime the developers moved from svn to git. I haven’t used my installation in the last couple of … Continue readi...

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Uptime

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

I have no intention to beat this uptime record but sometimes I just want to know for how long a system or a vm was up. For the current run: [crayon-51c1bc29d498a/] Well, that is nice but not enough. How many … Continue reading →...

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Blog

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Nach weniger als 3 Jahren habe ich nun wieder einmal die Blog-Plattform gewechselt. Es wird fast zur Gewohnheit, dass ich nach 2.5 Jahren die Plattform wechsle. b2evolution hat damals die Wahl gegen WordPress gewonnen. Leider konnte b2evolution meine...

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Aports statistics

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Release Total normal dev doc libs 2.6 3918 2405 534 943 36 2.5 3676 2233 498 912 33 2.4 3376 2021 457 874 24 2.3 3146 1866 435 827 18 2.2 2608 1502 444 652 10 2.1 2135 1222 365 … Continue reading →...

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Breakout.js und node.js

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Node.js ist eine gute Alternative zur Benutzung von Breakout unter Fedora. Seit letztem August wurde das Ganze stetig verbessert (ich habe ein Kommandozeile-Interface beisteuert) und funktioniert sehr einfach, wenn node.js installiert ist. Zuerst in ...

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Inception

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

From time to time I stumble over very cool stuff while looking for new tools for the Fedora Security Lab or Alpine Security. inception is one of those… Inception is a FireWire physical memory manipulation and hacking tool exploiting IEEE &helli...

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pfSense 2.1 Release candiate

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

The pfSense project has, according this blog entry, tagged pfSense 2.1 as RC0. Nice....

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Alpine Linux 2.6.0 released

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

We are pleased to announce Alpine Linux v2.6. Since v2.6, among the various bugfixes, several packages have been upgraded: Kernel upgraded to 3.9.2 with grsecurity patch ruby 2.0 php 5.4 kamailio-4.0 qemu-1.4 squid-3.3 Other things that might be wort...

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truecrack

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

I was curious how good truecrack works. To make it short: not at all. First download of the source code: [crayon-51c1bc29dc683/] Now unpacking and installation [crayon-51c1bc29dd617/] The test container was created with realcrypt. The password has an...

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Umfrage

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Ein Student braucht Daten für seine Thesis. Ich hoffe nur, dass die Rechtschreibkontrolle bei seiner Arbeit greift...

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Fedora Security Test bench Dokumentation

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

The documentation for the Fedora Security Test bench is now also available at ‘Read the Docs’. Thanks to ‘Read the Docs’ this location is always synced with the git repository. https://fedora-security-lab-test-bench.readthedoc...

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Breakout.js 0.2.3

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Breakout.js 0.2.3 was released yesterday. This release includes performance improvements for both Breakout Server (GUI) and the headless node JS version of breakout server. The node JS server was also broken as of node JS version 0.10. This issue has...

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Collectd Graph Panel

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Gestern habe ich das erste Mal collectd auf einem Alpine Linux-System aufgesetzt. Gewünscht wurde eine simple Lösung zur Überwachung der Auslastung von diversen Systemen in einem Laborbereich. Da kein Monitoring verlangt war, schien mir collectd e...

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