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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 [...]
Some time ago I read about random numbers and the linux kernel. The problem was (and still is) that the linux kernel uses things like network activity and keyboard/mouse interrupts to gather entropy for its random number generator. So.. What is entropy? Entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable. This [...]
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Yeeehaaaa! I just read on the full disclousure mailing list that backtrack 4 final has been released! And with the release, a new website for the project is also up: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/. If you’re into computer security, I suggest that you download backtrack 4 final from torrent, as per the text in the mail: The downloads [...]
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