Yesterday, my friend gave me a link to Fortress (http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/Fortress/).
Fortress is A simple script-based security scanner, using the LUA scripting engine for the writing of tests.
I then take a look at it and it’s quite interesting. Before I can play with it I have to install Lua first.
The Lua version provided by my distro is [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Blog From The Past : Installing Lua
Posted in tools on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Blog From The Past : Install WebScarab in OpenSUSE 10.1
Posted in Web Security on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Having read many articles about the “greatness” of WebScarab as a web application auditting tool, I am eager to install it on my system. As far as I can remember, I’ve already installed it before, but on my other system, and it should already been gone, because my brother already formatted the disk.
When [...]
Blog From The Past : Testing Snort 3.0 alpha 1
Posted in My, hacks on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
[Update 15 Nov 2007 : I wrote this blog several months ago, but I haven't been able to publish it until now]
After a couple of weeks I have been very busy settling things up in my new field, I got a chance to play with Snort 3.0 Subsystem Alpha 1. This release is not for [...]
My Experience With Nikto 2
Posted in Web Security on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Nikto version 2 has just been released on November 10, 2007. It has many new features over its predecessor.
Here are some of them (taken from the CHANGELOG file) :
Rewrite of nikto_httpoptions.plugin to read the Public header
Add some normalizations to the -root option variable
Added -Display with options for suppressing redirects & cookies from being included in [...]
A Little Intro to hping3
Posted in hacks, openSUSE on November 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Last night I installed hping3 in my system. The installation process is quite a bit challenging (as always :D).
Here are the steps to install hping3 on your system :
- Make sure you have the following packages installed on your system :
- libpcap and libpcap-devel
- tcl and tcl-devel
- Extract the hping3 tarball
- If your system [...]
Using Atheros-based Wifi Card in openSUSE 10.3
Posted in My, hacks, openSUSE, tips on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After upgrading my system to openSUSE 10.3, my wifi card (atheros-based) is no longer able to work. The kernel doesn’t recognize it anymore. In my previous openSUSE 10.1, it works flawlessly run out of the box. [Updated : I just found out that in openSUSE 10.1, I have done the same thing.]
Having been thinkering [...]
Recent Activity
Posted in blog news on November 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Lately I have been very busy preparing a documentation to be submitted to a friend. Actually I have been preparing this document since July 2007. I have devoted many hours to create this document and also many things happen during those time, but finally I can sleep well now, it’s finished. So you may notice [...]
Installing ModSecurity 2.x in openSUSE 10.x
Posted in Web Security on November 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In this blog post, I will describe the process I took to install modsecurity on my system, openSUSE 10.x.
If you haven’t know about modsecurity, I suggest you to visit its website and read a little it about it. All I can say about modsecurity is that it is an open source web application firewall that [...]
