Monthly Archives: May 2013

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-5dcba64f10307327251093/] Now unpacking and installation [crayon-5dcba64f1030c650595488/] The test container was created with realcrypt. T...

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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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Documentation about the Fedora Security Lab Test bench

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

So far all documentation about the Fedora Security Lab Test bench was spread across various location. There were some things mentioned on Fedora Hosted, in a couple of non-public emails, the git repository, and IRC conversations to collect and aggreg...

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Detecting a Fedora Security Lab Test bench with nmap

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

nmap can do almost everything. With the script from below you can use nmap to detect the web interface of a Fedora Security Lab Test bench. [crayon-5dcba64f10e6a119507692/]  ...

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Vaadin

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

It’s good to know that the guys from vaadin have good confidence. vaadin is available as version 7. The number suggest that vaadin is matured but from my point of view several parts are not. I have used a couple … Continue reading →...

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Fedora Security Lab Test bench local virtual machine

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

Now, we are able to deploy a Fedora Security Lab Test bench from scratch without any user intervention as libvirt-based virtual machine. This is useful if you want to carry your Test bench around and not want to use the … Continue reading &rar...

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Linux Container (LXC) on Fedora

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Fabian Affolter

For some of my needs Linux Container (LXC) would fit perfectly as a replacement for chroot. But till yesterday I have had some issues with the shipped template for Fedora. [crayon-5dcba64f1175b812148979/] This created an unusable container. So I star...

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