Segfault.gr - Still kicking... :: News segfault.gr/ zapotek@segfault.gr zapotek@segfault.gr http://backend.userland.com/rss SegFault.Gr News <![CDATA[Arachni v0.1 is here]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/23/secid/29/ And so is the documentation, both for users and prospective developers.

So go ahead and give the first Beta version a shot:

git clone git://github.com/Zapotek/arachni.git


Homepage: http://github.com/Zapotek/arachni
Downloads: http://github.com/Zapotek/arachni/downloads
Documentation: http://github.com/Zapotek/arachni/wiki
Feedback/Bug reports: http://github.com/Zapotek/arachni/issues

I think that you’ll enjoy it. :)]]> 2010-09-04 13:10:11 <![CDATA[Get a free vulnerability scan for your web application]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/22/secid/29/
As those of you who read my blog already know,
I am developing an FOSS web application vulnerability scanner called Arachni.

The problem is that I don't have any live servers to test it on and I don't
want to harass random sys admins and their servers.

So I'll make you a deal.

If you let me test Arachni against your web applications I'll report the vulnerabilities Arachni finds, if any, to you immediately.
For free of course....

And you'll also earn a nice acknowledgment on Arachni's website, my blog and http://www.segfault.gr -- if you want to.

If you're interested contact me using this form: http://trainofthought.segfault.gr/contact/

Cheers,
Zapotek.]]> 2010-07-13 07:10:30 <![CDATA[raw2vmdk 0.1 has just been released]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/21/secid/29/ last blog post already know the troubles that someone has to go through to mount a raw image with VMware.
And then salvation came with the manual solution I presented that works on, probably, every system.

Well, I thought why not automate the process?
After all LiveView has already done most of the work required, and it's open source.

So I started hacking up some Java and created a nice little utility that analyses raw images and automatically creates appropriate .vmdk files to be used with VMware enabling you to mount the image right away.

It's already on SourceForge, feel free to test it and let me know how it worked for you. :)

Project page: http://raw2vmdk.segfault.gr]]> 2010-06-15 02:14:37 <![CDATA[Blog is on-line...]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/20/secid/29/ You can find it here: http://trainofthought.segfault.gr/

It'll mostly contain news about stuff I'm working on, projects, publications and the like -- and random rumblings quite possibly.

It should be interesting to see how it goes.
Registrations are open so if you want to comment on anything you are welcomed to do so. :)

C ya,
Zapotek.]]> 2010-06-03 10:57:00 <![CDATA[Long time no see...]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/19/secid/29/
I've realised that the site hasn't been updated in a while...well, kind of a looong while.

In reality, lots have been going on...

I finished my Bachelor's programme in Network Computing and will probably go to the Royal Holloway University of London for an InfoSec Master's degree.

1 new cool project is coming, an abandoned one (WebSpidah) in going to be revived, if I find time, as well as 2 publications, hopefully, will be sent to the BCS and/or the ACM.

And... I'm thinking of turning SegFault.gr into a blog-like site posting random stuff that come to mind...or maybe add a blog to a subdomain, can't bother extending the CMS to add that functionality and I don't trust any 3rd party CMS, so we'll see...

Anyways, that's all folks...c ya.

- Zapotek]]> 2010-06-02 18:27:33 <![CDATA[The true reasons behind the LHC site defacement]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/18/secid/29/ sites have misinterpreted the message of the defacement of CERN's LHC website left by Greek crackers.

As a result the Greek media, which have never seen the real message, translated the misinterpreted text leading to public misinformation.

Thankfully, a friend of mine, George Chlapoutakis (also known as DarkSYN)
got his hands on a genuine screenshot of the defacement containing the full message in the Greek language and proceeded to write an accurate translation.

The purpose of GST (or Greek Security Team's) intrusion was neither to disrupt the experiment, nor to humiliate the CERN admins.
Their statement was against their adversaries in the Greek underground scene and the only reason they chose this site was due to it's extraordinary traffic.

The screenshot follows:
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Read the full article on the GrayHatForensics blog...]]> 2008-09-14 13:41:50 <![CDATA[APT repository for vget]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/16/secid/29/ PPA on Launchpad.
Add the following lines:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/zapotek/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/zapotek/ubuntu hardy main

in your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file and:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vget


Et voila...you now have vget's latest version installed. :)

Available architectures are:


Regards,
Zapotek.]]> 2008-09-10 05:12:39 <![CDATA[Social bookmark buttons]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/15/secid/29/ so I thought I'd make your lives easier by adding social bookmarking buttons to SegFault's entries.

So... go nuts everybody. :)

Regards,
Zapotek.]]> 2008-09-08 14:15:38 <![CDATA[vget now in Launchpad]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/14/secid/29/ Launchpad.
New releases will be added there as well along with a Bazaar mirror of Segfault's SVN repository of vget.

Launchpad also enables users of vget to ask questions and file bug reports as well as interact with the code via the Bazaar repository.

Furthermore, Deb packages will be added which can be obtained from my
"Personal Package Archive" using APT.

Everything is not yet in order as I'm currently organizing stuff but it'll all be ready soon.

Regards,
Zapotek.]]> 2008-09-07 05:39:22 <![CDATA[vget added in Gentoo]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/13/secid/29/ vget 0.3.5 has been added in the Gentoo repositories (Thanks Hanno).
You can find it under "net-misc".

Click here to visit the repository page.]]> 2008-08-29 09:57:53 <![CDATA[Website updates ]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/12/secid/29/
Changes to SegFault's caching system were made so there is a possibility
that certain parts of the site may be unavailable due to bugs.

Also, Google Ads were added, to try and meet hosting expenses, as well as a Google search form.

If you find anything that doesn't work as it's supposed to, drop me a line.

Enjoy your visit,
Zapotek. ]]> 2008-07-28 10:28:49 <![CDATA[New Project: vget]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/11/secid/29/ Its name is vget and it is a Linux video downloader for the Veoh service.
You can freely download videos from Veoh with no registration, no personal data, full-time and high-resolution.

Enjoy everyone,
Zapotek. ]]> 2008-05-15 16:28:03 <![CDATA[Segfault IDS now activated]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/10/secid/29/ Should anyone try to outsmart me he will be logged and his IP address will be published on your right, in the "Stupid people" 's list.
If the list is not visible we either truncated the logs or no one tried to hack this website yet, however the latter is very unlikely.

Although damage on Segfault cannot be inflicted, it's fun to watch people try.

Cheers,
Zapotek.]]> 2008-02-14 22:49:04 <![CDATA[New Project: CDPSnarf]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/9/secid/29/ Its name is CDPSnarf and it is a CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) sniffer written in C using the PCAP library.

Use with care and enjoy,
Zapotek.]]> 2008-02-04 18:03:30 <![CDATA[Segfault SVN Server is on-line]]> http://segfault.gr/news/lang/en/news_id/8/secid/29/ You can start browsing our released source code from the Segfault SVN Repository front-end using your web browser or at svn://segfault.gr/ using an SVN client.
While browsing our repository front-end (Powered by WebSVN) you can download on-the-fly created tarballs of our latest code.
A link has been placed on your right for your convenience.

Should you find any bugs or difficulties accessing the aforementioned resources feel free to drop me a line.

Cheers,
Zapotek.]]> 2008-02-04 17:19:05