Tactical Forensics Platform

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Earlier I wrote about my proposed Tactical Network Security Monitoring Platform. Today I finally sat down and installed the operating systems I need on this system to create a portable tactical forensics and investigation platform. I did not want to use my main work laptop for this sort of work ...

Ubuntu Cheat Sheet

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

With the Ubuntu 8.04 release a few days away, there comes a time when one needs an end-all reference to the system. The time is now, and if you’re an Ubuntu user and liked the original cheat sheet, then do we have a surprise for you: Click the preview above to ...

Unix/Linux Command Cheat Sheet

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

In an attempt to find a good Unix reference for you FOSSwire readers, I was unsuccessful at finding a decent one on the Internet. So, why not make one? Click the image above to download a full PDF. Print it out, stick it on your wall, and pass it on. It’s ...

Reverse-Engineering Exploits from Patches

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

The automatic patch-based exploit generation problem is: given a program P and a patched version of the program P', automatically generate an exploit for the potentially unknown vulnerability present in P but fixed in P'. In this paper, we propose techniques for automatic patch-based exploit generation, and show that our ...

Create a mirror of a website with Wget

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

GNU’s wget command line program for downloading is very popular, and not without reason. While you can use it simply to retrieve a single file from a server, it is much more powerful than that and offers many more features. One of the more advanced features in wget is the mirror ...