Some time ago, Google announced that they had developed and released a security testing tool called skipfish. Running this on debian or ubuntu is quite simple. Open a terminal and type in the following: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libidn11-dev build-essential wget http://skipfish.googlecode.com/files/skipfish-1.34b.tgz tar xzf skipfish-1.34b.tgz make Now you are ready to test your web [...]
If you are trying to download a website with LWP::UserAgent in Perl through HTTPS, you might encounter errors like this: Can’t locate object method “new” via package “LWP::Protocol::https::Socket” The solution to this problem is to install the ssl development libraries, and then install the Crypt::SSLeay Perl module. To do this in Debian or Ubuntu, open [...]
If you’re using the new Ubuntu 10.04, you may have noticed that Sun’s Oracle’s java is not there anymore, it has been replaced by openjdk. This also means that there is no sun-java6-plugin to use with your favorite browser in Ubuntu 10.04. Instead, you must use the openjdk browser plugin, which can be installed like [...]
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